69 Episodes

  1. Thames Water – the unacceptable face of water privatisation

    Published: 4/7/2025
  2. Heathrow Airport shutdown - a lesson in resilience

    Published: 3/28/2025
  3. Defence versus net zero

    Published: 3/14/2025
  4. Climate cakeism

    Published: 3/3/2025
  5. Why are UK energy prices so high?

    Published: 2/12/2025
  6. Crossing the Rubicon – what it really takes to grow an economy

    Published: 2/3/2025
  7. Energy costs and economic growth

    Published: 1/21/2025
  8. The great COP-out

    Published: 11/27/2024
  9. The UK’s new growth industry – regulation

    Published: 10/30/2024
  10. Transformation – a case of blood, sweat, tears … and many years

    Published: 9/26/2024
  11. Britain's four fundamental economic problems

    Published: 9/23/2024
  12. Zombie utilities

    Published: 7/24/2024
  13. Dash for growth means dash for debt

    Published: 7/23/2024
  14. The free-lunch election

    Published: 6/4/2024
  15. Privatisation casualties piling up

    Published: 4/23/2024
  16. Fudging the fiscal rules

    Published: 3/25/2024
  17. Failing utilities – is special administration the solution?

    Published: 2/29/2024
  18. Fiddling the figures – iron fiscal rules are not what they seem

    Published: 2/19/2024
  19. Three energy policies

    Published: 1/25/2024
  20. Network Rail, Royal Mail, and Thames Water - three failing utilities

    Published: 12/13/2023

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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.