It was quite a moment. With the simultaneous closure this week of Britain’s last remaining coal-fired power station and steel-making blast furnace, Britain’s once glorious industrial past this week drew to an ignominious close, driven to final destruction by a combination of net zero zealotry and rocketing industrial power costs.
All economies must change and adapt to survive, and ignoring the human cost of these closures, there is undoubtedly a certain poetic eloquence to them.
