Blimey. I take a few days off to take the kids to the beach and the Government's energy efficiency policy goes to hell in a handcart.

Things are what you might call looking up.

Recessions come and go in cycles and so do the reactions to those recessions.

We all knew that the Government's cack-handed reorganisation of the way energy companies fund energy efficiency improvements to meet their carbon emissions targets would end horribly.

Thanks to my paternal grandfather, I have some Scottish blood running through my veins so I've been taking some interest in the outcome of the Yes or No vote coming up on Thursday.

It's Party Conference season, so the thoughts of young men (and women and the not so young) have lightly turned to thoughts of housing.

So it looks like someone at least, was listening to the Get Britain Building 2020 launch.

It's back!! The Green Deal Home Improvement Fund has been re-opened.

So, a man who held the exalted position of Environment Secretary for two years is against the Climate Change Act.

When I first joined BMJ, way back when, I found myself in something of a minority.