Simon Jenkins has written an admirable blast at windfarms in the pages - believe it or not - of the Guardian.
I have spent two years traipsing Britain in search of the finest views. It is hard to convey the devastating impact of the turbines to those who have not seen them, especially a political elite that never leaves the south-east except for abroad. Fields of these structures are now rising almost everywhere. They are sited irrespective of the wind, since subsidy is paid irrespective of supply, even if there is none. It makes EU agricultural policy a paragon of sanity.
I don't think Jenkins is right when he says that politicians have been driven mad by the myth of free wind power. That's lazy thinking. Politicians are making logical decisions to get themselves reelected. It was the rational pursuit of the green vote that was behind the appearance of sanity. We have to ask ourselves why so many people were persuaded that wind power was a sensible way to go.