Solar power cannot compete fairly with fossil fuel-sourced power if the Government insists on going easy on the most polluting oil firms and electricity generators

Far better to concentrate on creating public-private structures that vary according to the needs of each area, a boringly prosaic answer to a problem that cannot be solved by ideology

It seems to be sinking in to some Labour MPs tonight just how unfavourable the Brexit settlement is likely to be for the UK

If the White Paper contains startling revelations about how ministers plan to move forward with their Brexit negotiations, what will MPs do then?

Mr Trump was certainly more subdued and guarded in his remarks than usual. He stuck to his script, apart from a side-swipe at the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg (clearly not his type)

There will be much debate over the White Paper, but in the end Article 50 will be triggered

If Britain is to become the sort of free-wheeling, free-trading beacon of the world, and be nimble enough to cope with tariff and non-tariff barriers in the EU, then it will indeed have to transform itself into the ‘Singapore of Europe’

The first is that America will put America first. The harsh message from the President does at least have the virtue of clarity

The new President’s vituperative, aggressive and divisive style is bad news for those who wish America well, but it is also bad politics

Trump is a man who isn’t especially bothered about America defending freedom and human rights around the world. You get the impression that his America will not fight for the freedom of Estonia or Poland

For now, the best indicator of business confidence in Brexit is represented by the ever-sinking pound. Theresa May, by all accounts, is about to unleash a harder Brexit than anyone thought likely or even possible 

Despite claims by hard-line Brexiteers, May does not have a mandate to leave the single market. Indeed, the 2015 Conservative election manifesto promised to remain in it. She should stand up to the Europhobes pushing her towards a ‘clean break’

For Mr Trump to have lambasted the FBI and the CIA effectively for doing no more than telling him and other relevant individuals about the Steele dossier’s existence is bizarre. For him to go on to suggest, without clear evidence, that intelligence officials were responsible for leaks to the media was the height of folly

Even if there is little truth in the rumours, the damage they are already doing to confidence in the office of the presidency is obvious

Apart from Brexit and the not-too-challenging task of keeping Jeremy Corbyn out of Downing Street, it is not immediately apparent what Theresa May is for

Quack remedies have been offered and eagerly taken up for all the history of medicine, but the internet reaches more people, more quickly

Regular rail users are right to question whether such a significant rise in fares can be justified at a time when services have become more unreliable

Not since the fall of the Ottomans a century ago has the very unity and future of the nation been so precarious, and its power so obviously waning. That is bad news for the region, for Europe, and for the world

We accept the democratic decisions on both sides of the Atlantic, but still hope for a more socially just, tolerant and sustainable world in the New Year