Andy Mayer
Andy Mayer is the COO and Energy Analyst at the Institute of Economic Affairs and has 20 years experience working in and commenting on energy matters. He tweets at @mayerandrew
Stop posing. Start drilling
Our current energy crisis confronts Net Zero-loving elites with the stark reality
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Talk of conscription is pure fantasy politics
We do not have the forces, the seriousness or the need for a major ground war
Boremageddon
Ricky Gervais’s tiresome adolescent offencemongering sent me to sleep
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
Leave Gen Z alone
The supposed laziness of young people has itself become a lazy trope
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
The paper tiger and the Russian bear
NATO’s naive and supine response will not drive Putin’s army from Ukraine and emboldens Moscow still further