With green talks on a road to nowhere, Eamonn Dwyer takes aim at our Faustian pact with fossil fuels.

They’re like those people who keep telling us not to add salt to our food, or guilt us for wearing a top from a sweatshop. Incessant, proscribing and one-note, they are the spoilers; the people who like to belch on our bluefin tuna before telling us why we shouldn’t be eating it in the first place. If climate change activists don’t get on your goat, that’s because you’re one of them.

By Alex Holland

Not many Londoners can be happy as they grope through the frozen murkiness of the commute to their first days back at work after the winter break. Adding to their misery is London's mayor, Boris Johnson, who has made their journey much more expensive with huge fare rises.