Articles By Patrick Heren
November 2018
A hundred years ago, a week before the end of the First World War, Wilfred Owen died in action. In verse and prose, he speaks to us still
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July/August 2018
Around the world, public institutions are being pressured by activists to divest themselves of their fossil fuel holdings. They should resist
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March 2018
Tiny Fordwich in Kent, still thriving after 1,400 years, faces a new invasion: London foodies
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December/January 2016/17
Donald Trump says he wants the US to be energy-independent. Opec should take heed
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May 2016
The realkommerz of global trade makes it difficult to avoid enriching dictatorships and tyrants
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April 2016
All Edgar Speyer’s good works could not save him amid the hysteria of the First World War
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January/February 2016
COP21 promised utopia but delivered little. Developing countries need cheap energy, not handouts that will be lost to corruption
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July/August 2015
The costly and impractical Climate Change Act was nodded through by a lazy Commons and has been rendered obsolete by the oil price collapse
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June 2015
The memoirs of Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor
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December 2014
British policy is not rooted in economic reality but dictated by the Green Blob. It is time to break a consensus that is costing us dear
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April 2014
As a Christian, I was deeply moved by a visit to the Holy Land
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April 2014
It will be another decade before the Continent can substitute the product of American fracking for Russian energy piped via Ukraine
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November 2013
Ian Buruma's Year Zero deftly tells the story of 1945: the year the modern world began
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November 2013
The PM can’t cut subsidies on renewables without splitting the Coalition. But how else can he trump Miliband’s price freeze?
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October 2013
Visiting the Normandy invasion beaches, I realised the importance
of the campaign in which my cousin was killed fighting for freedom
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June 2013
In 1945, Bernard Hailstone painted my father, the journalist Louis Heren, in the Burmese jungle. This is the story of their long friendship
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January/February 2013
‘Would Robert Burns have supported independence for Scotland? His politics are hard to pin down’
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April 2012
Blinded by climate change dogma, the government seems determined to play down the Lancashire shale gas bonanza
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January/February 2012
The global price of gas should be falling, but our "greenest ever" government is busy driving up the cost of heating our homes
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January/February 2011
Britain takes for granted the benefits that natural gas has brought but they are miraculous
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November 2010
Surabaya, October 1945: The forgotten Indonesian war that foreshadowed today's conflicts, as a humanitarian mission turned into a bloodbath
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October 2010
Nemesis by Philip Roth
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October 2010
It's time to think the unthinkable, and admit that privatising the BBC is a great idea
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October 2009
Why did no one warn me about District 9?
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September 2008
‘“Mr Heren,” the White House guard told my father, “you just drive right up to the house”’
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About Patrick Heren
Patrick Heren is a journalist who advises the British government on energy procurement. He is also mayor of Fordwich, England's smallest town (pop. 375).
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