What we learned this week

The UK has a different government than this time last week. This one plans to keep the ban on fracking that last week’s government put in the bin. But they’ve also re-banned onshore wind, which last week’s government had finally set free.

No word yet on whether the proposed ban on solar arrays on agricultural land will remain, but this week’s government might want to keep this in mind: one of the biggest investors in solar farms in the last few years has in fact been… the government. As well...