Electric blues

Over eight years ago, in 2013, I wrote a post on this blog about the absurdity of a supposedly competitive market for electricity, and energy more generally. That absurdity was incipient in the privatization of gas and electricity industries in the UK in the 1980s and early 1990s. It has now interacted with a global energy crisis to create a major problem which, in turn, is contributing to a wider cost of living crisis.It was an accident waiting to happen. As I wrote in 2013, the idea of ‘shoppi