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ROSS CLARK: During the miners' strike of 1984-85, Labour MPs used to proudly wear 'Coal not dole' badges in their lapels. Fast-forward 40 years and coal has never been a more dirty word in socialist circles. Yesterday, when the boilers of Britain's last coal-fired power station, at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, were shut down for the last time, hardly a tear was shed. Coal may have been the lifeblood of the Industrial Revolution, a phenomenon that transformed the world, but today Labour, in a mad rush to achieve net zero carbon emissions, is presiding over a deindustrialisation of Britain that will leave our country poorer, more vulnerable and won't even do anything to protect the environment. We can - and perhaps should - rejoice at the decline of coal as a means of producing electricity. It is one of the dirtiest fuels you can burn, producing around twice as many carbon emissions, kilowatt-hour for kilowatt-hour, as gas. Yet there is something rather disturbing about the glee with which climate campaigners, and Government ministers, have cheered the end of the coal industry - and, indeed, the decline of much of Britain's heavy industry in general.

Behind that veneered smile and camp presenter persona, there's another RYLAN CLARK: a beer-drinking football fan and wannabe family man. Now hosting a revealing new dating show, he bares all

Rachel Reeves insisted that she had to plug what she called a £22 billion hole in public spending and put the blame squarely on the Tories. The Mail's Ross Clark looks at whether her claims really stack up.

Within days of taking office, Miliband has lifted the moratorium on onshore wind farms and given approval to three massive solar farms. One of these, a 500-megawatt installation called Sunnica, to be built on 2,500 acres of farmland on the Suffolk/Cambridgeshire border, is close to where I live. Remarkably, Miliband has ridden roughshod over the government's own Planning Inspectorate, which last year recommended that permission be refused, citing the risk to ground-nesting birds and the loss of open countryside. And it wasn't convinced the benefits of the plan outweighed the drawbacks, especially the loss of good-quality farmland.

ROSS CLARK: If we plough on aiming for the arbitrary 2050 target, the Prime Minister must go a step further in freeing us from the huge costs that will be imposed on households and businesses.

ROSS CLARK: Are we really surprised that the operators of Drax power station deprived taxpayers of £639million last year by - legally - gaming the subsidy system? For years, the North Yorkshire power station has been draining our pockets, but we have been led to believe that its woodchip-fired boilers, which use mainly from North American forests, are supplying us with a safe, carbon-free source of electricity. Since 2016, we have collectively bankrolled Drax with £1.4 billion in subsidies, but what have we got to show for the money? Sure, not clean air – Drax continues to spew out sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and soot as it did on its days as Britain's biggest coal-fired station, as shown by the photographs on the website of crystal-clear skies, cutesy graphics on'renewable bioenergy,' and predictions about our'renewable future.' If you turn a blind eye to a colossal bureaucratic sleight of hand, neither has Drax provided us carbon-free electricity.

ROSS CLARK: A whole generation has been traumatized by apocalyptic words. Climate worries, according to evidence, are leading to anxiety disorders and depression. Although there are quality reports that average global temperatures have risen by just over 1 cent in the last 150 years, biblical storms, uncontrollable temperatures, and endless fires are nothing more than irresponsible scaremongery.

ROSS CLARK, a brilliantly defending the Establishment consensus, has written a new book in which hysteria and doom-mongering surrounding the climate change debate might do more harm than the rise in temperatures could ever have caused. In the second extract, he reveals the folly of politicians' frantic to zero. a.k.a. .

I ask you to consider what the Prime Minister said in Kiev a few days earlier: "If we're paying our electricity bills for Vladimir Putin's derogations, the people of Ukraine are paying in their blood." We must keep going,' Mr Johnson said. We must demonstrate as friends of Ukraine that we have the same tactical tenacity as Ukraine's leaders.' Must we?Till when?Is this either a conservative or a patriotic thing to say?Is it even sensible? Answer before answering. War is often started with war. However, it has a horrible way of ruining the lives of those who once flocked for it.