69 Episodes

  1. Thames Water – the unacceptable face of water privatisation

    Published: 7/04/2025

  2. Heathrow Airport shutdown - a lesson in resilience

    Published: 28/03/2025

  3. Defence versus net zero

    Published: 14/03/2025

  4. Climate cakeism

    Published: 3/03/2025

  5. Why are UK energy prices so high?

    Published: 12/02/2025

  6. Crossing the Rubicon – what it really takes to grow an economy

    Published: 3/02/2025

  7. Energy costs and economic growth

    Published: 21/01/2025

  8. The great COP-out

    Published: 27/11/2024

  9. The UK’s new growth industry – regulation

    Published: 30/10/2024

  10. Transformation – a case of blood, sweat, tears … and many years

    Published: 26/09/2024

  11. Britain's four fundamental economic problems

    Published: 23/09/2024

  12. Zombie utilities

    Published: 24/07/2024

  13. Dash for growth means dash for debt

    Published: 23/07/2024

  14. The free-lunch election

    Published: 4/06/2024

  15. Privatisation casualties piling up

    Published: 23/04/2024

  16. Fudging the fiscal rules

    Published: 25/03/2024

  17. Failing utilities – is special administration the solution?

    Published: 29/02/2024

  18. Fiddling the figures – iron fiscal rules are not what they seem

    Published: 19/02/2024

  19. Three energy policies

    Published: 25/01/2024

  20. Network Rail, Royal Mail, and Thames Water - three failing utilities

    Published: 13/12/2023

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Helm Talks is full of short, 'pull no punches' insights into: Energy & Climate; Regulation, Utilities & Infrastructure; Natural Capital & the Environment. Professor Dieter Helm is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford.

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