The Independent (29 August 2015)

CO. united kingdom THURSDAY eight OCTOBER 2015 Jostein Gaarder: weather swap is destroying the essence of Sophie’s international P. 31 information information part 2 information BUS I N E S S Nadiya Hussain Tears of the Bake Off winner Alice Jones Did Coogan write this memoir or Partridge? Mark Rylance What I realized from an Amazonian tribe Tim Walker ‘Back to the long run’ has develop into the current Hamish McRae is that this a slowdown or whatever worse? P. five P. 17 P. 34 P. 34 P. fifty four was once that Cameron, or a few left-wing lookalike? DONALD MACINTYRE It was once tough, after it used to be all over the place, to determine which have been the better tradition surprise: was once it a Conservative major Minister angrily denouncing a litany of injustices opposed to black staff, abused Muslims, gays in loving partnerships and underpaid girls? Or the convention giving him a status ovation while he rounded off the passage through mentioning: “I wish us to finish discrimination and end the struggle for genuine equality in our kingdom. ” This used to be much less a rhetorical incursion into what David Cameron now loves to name the “common flooring” than a full-scale career. It David Cameron, along with his spouse Samantha, soaks up the applause on the Conservative social gathering convention the previous day DAN equipment WO O D/ GE T T Y endured on P. 6 > Wind energy now the most cost effective type of power µ Environmentalists hail landmark second for eco-friendly substitute to coal, oil and fuel energy stations µ Renewed strain at the govt to desert its resistance to onshore generators TOM BAWDEN setting EDITOR Onshore wind strength has turn into more affordable than electrical energy from the other resource within the united kingdom for the 1st time, in what can be a landmark second for renewable strength in Britain. but the govt. has been accused of scuppering Britain’s top likelihood of assembly the country’s bold environmental objectives via its persevered resistance to onshore generators, regardless of transforming into facts that they're the cheapest choice. Wind farms outfitted on land were brushed aside by way of the surroundings Secretary, Liz Truss, as “a blight at the land- scape”. despite the fact that, new figures express they not just produce more cost-effective strength than coal, oil or fuel energy stations, but in addition stay a ways more cost-effective than offshore generators, which the govt. is championing. Onshore wind farms at the moment produce approximately 60 in step with cent of the UK’s wind energy output. even if they're set to stay the important kind of renewable power within the following few years regardless of competition in govt – which has stopped subsidies and given the ultimate say on even if a undertaking may still move forward to neighborhood citizens – supporters of eco-friendly power say the rustic is lacking an opportunity to maximize their strength. the price of onshore wind strength has fallen from $108 (£70. 20) consistent with megawatt hour (mWh) a yr in the past to $85 at the present time, as they turn into extra effective and less expensive to construct. Over a similar interval, coalfired strength stations have visible their charges rocket from approximately $98 mWh to $115 and gasoline from $100 to $114, after the european agreed new ideas that would persevered on P. four > 2 M THURSDAY eight OCTOBER 2015 THE self reliant information Contents 08.