A problem for a writer on the climate and energy agenda is that the Green Blob is, by its nature, extremely repetitive. The climate wars are, after all, wars of attrition – of governments starving their own populations into compliance. And their salvos are, accordingly the banal repetition of slogans, fibs and false utopian promises in the face of economic stagnation and deindustrialisation, rising prices and lower living standards. So what is there to say about the thing that gets repeated without simply repeating the points that were made last time? In this case, the repeater is Tony Blair, whose institute has produced yet another report – a sixth in little more than a year – which seemingly dismantles Ed Miliband’s agenda.

It is less than a month ago that Blair’s Institute for Global Change (IGC) published his previous intervention, which I covered here. The report, I argued, let slip Blair’s real agenda, including (among other things) using digital ID to manage the crises caused by green energy policy. The problem of climate change is just too convenient for Establishment figures to let go of it.