The end of Britain’s economic miracle
Simon Nixon on what happens when North Sea oil runs out — and we have to do without the drug that fuelled the boom yearsThe New Labour spin doctor’s handbook has clear guidelines on how to deal with a crisis. First, deny it exists. If that doesn’t work, attack anybody who dares draw attention to the problem, usually subjecting them to a vicious smear campaign. And, if all else fails, blame it on Europe. So it has been with this winter’s great gas crisis.