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On behalf of the ERC, Dan Lewis, ERC authors and other members of the ERC make frequent contributions to the media as well as speeches to schools and conferences. For enquiries, please contact Dan Lewis on info (and then the at sign) ercouncil.org.

Media Coverage
Dan Lewis

Date	Medium	Type	Subject
July 07 2008	World Politics Review	Attribution to Dan Lewis	Foresight, Fortune Allow Brazil to Move Toward Energy Independence
June 21 2008	Al-Jazeera TV	TV Interview	Dan Lewis talks about oil prices, speculation and the declining influence of OPEC.
June 05 2008	Al-Jazeera TV	TV Interview	Dan Lewis talks about oil prices, their cause and effect, and the alternatives to policymakers
June 01 2008	Sunday Times	Article by ERC Vice-President, David B. Smith	How the British Economy can stay on course - article that draws heavily and mentions his paper for the ERC - Cracks in the Foundations? on the Bank of England
April 07 2008	Hawaii Report	Article attribution	More Failures of Wind Energy
April 02 2008	Energy Tribune	Article attribution	Overblown: The Real Cost of Wind Power
March 10 2008	The Times	Op-ed article by Mick Hume	Nuclear power: grasp the nettle Re: new ERC Paper "New Nuclear Build in the UK - The Criteria for Delivery"
March 3 2008	The Metro - Page 2	Article	Re: new ERC Paper "New Nuclear Build in the UK - The Criteria for Delivery"
March 3 2008	The Times	Article	Clear run for doubling of nuclear power Re: new ERC Paper "New Nuclear Build in the UK - The Criteria for Delivery"
February 27 2008	Radio 4 - You and Yours	Dan Lewis in Discussion about Quangos	Quangos, their Regional Distribution and where their top employees come from
February 12 2008	World Finance Magazine	Article by Dan Lewis	World Financial Megatrends
February 1 2008	Financial Times	Letter by Damon de Laszlo	Basel II played a role in global banking crisis
January 25 2008	HANSARD - Lords debate on NGOs	Attributions to the ERC and Dan Lewis	See link here
January 23 2008	Yorkshire Post	Article by Dan Lewis	The economic situation is bad, but not yet dire
January 22 2008	Business Standard	Pamphlet attribution by Deepak Lal in article	The banking conundrum - reference made to Playing with Monetary Fire by Tim Congdon
January 21 2008	The Times	Letter published - signed by ERC Chairman	The Lisbon Treaty - as signed by Damon de Laszlo
December 16 2007	Sunday Times	Pamphlet attribution	Riding to the rescue reference made to Playing with Monetary Fire by Tim Congdon
December 14 2007	The Guardian	Letter in response from BWEA	These wind targets are ambitious, but they're also achievable
December 13 2007	World Finance Magazine	Article by Dan Lewis	Where will the world make and lose money in 2008?
December 11 2007	The Guardian	Article attribution	Government's offshore wind power target branded "pie in the sky"
December 9 2007	Sunday Times	Article attribution	Get in the running for a quango
November 24 2007	Daily Express	Article attribution	Dan Lewis on quangos
November 20 2007	Sky News	TV Interview	Dan Lewis on the Northern Rock crisis
November 18 2007	Al-Jazeera	TV Interview	Dan Lewis on OPEC, Oil Prices and the Global Economy
November 15 2007	The Guardian	Article attribution	Q&A: Grammar school policy - see the ERC education paper by Professor O'Keeffe's paper here
November 10 2007	Sky News	TV Interview	Dan Lewis on Peak Oil and the new movie - A Crude Awakening
November 07 2007	The Guardian	Attribution	Dan Lewis on clean energy economics
November 2007	Public Private Finance Magazine	Attribution	On competition and education quangos
October / November 2007	Power Engineer Magazine	Article by Dan Lewis	Policy - The price of sin - about carbon offsets, etc.
October / November 2007	World Finance Magazine	Article by Dan Lewis	Prepare to wobble
October 20 2007	Daily Telegraph	Letter by Dan Lewis	Attractive prospect of privatising the BBC
September 02 2007	Sunday Telegraph	Article attribution	Higher minimum wage advised for London see original paper here (Pages 9-27) and powerpoint of the paper here
August 31 2007	Building Design Magazine	Article attribution	Huge CABE expansion revealed (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) - see http://quangos.ercouncil.org/home/
August 26 2007	Sunday Telegraph	Article attribution	Box-ticking blamed for cost of quangos - see http://quangos.ercouncil.org/home/
August 22 2007	Daily Mail	Article attribution	Top 20 quangocrats are costing us £6.2m - see http://quangos.ercouncil.org/home/
August 22 2007	Yorkshire Post	Article attribution	Forget even more taxation, just cut the quangos - see http://quangos.ercouncil.org/home/
August 21 2007	The Independent	Article attribution	Why can't David Cameron accept the obvious? Lower taxes bring higher growth - see http://quangos.ercouncil.org/home/
August 21 2007	Syndicated article across USA by Cal Thomas	Article attribution	Message for the GOP - Britain's model of expanded government isn't the way to go - see http://quangos.ercouncil.org/home/
August 20 2007	Daily Mail	Article attribution	Labour spend £167 billion a year on their expanding army of quangos - see http://quangos.ercouncil.org/home/
August 19 2007	Sunday Telegraph	Article attribution	Page 1 - Boom in quangos costs Britain £170bn a year - see http://quangos.ercouncil.org/home/
August 19 2007	Sunday Telegraph	Article by Dan Lewis	Brown would be better off selling quangos - see http://quangos.ercouncil.org/home/
August 19 2007	Sunday Telegraph	Feature article	Quangos: the runaway gravy train - based on exclusive preview of ERC quango database - see http://quangos.ercouncil.org/home/
August 2007	Power Engineer Magazine	Article by Dan Lewis	A Bundle of Woe
August / September 2007	World Finance Magazine	Article	The world needs more private equity, not less
July 27 2007	South Wales Evening Post	Article	AM ATTACKS CALLS FOR A LOWER MINIMUM WAGE LEVEL IN WALES see original paper here (Pages 9-27) and powerpoint of the paper here
July 24 2007	The Cornishman	Article	MINIMUM WAGE COULD GO DOWN see original paper here (Pages 9-27) and powerpoint of the paper here
July 22 2007	Sunday Telegraph	Article	Gordon Brown to vary minimum wage over the UK see original paper here (Pages 9-27) and powerpoint of the paper here
July 4 2007	Guardian	Article	Yesterday in parliament
June / July 2007	World Finance Magazine	Article	Urbanisation 2.0: The mother of all building booms
June 26 2007	Daily Mail	Article	Study proves A-Levels have become one grade easier under Blair
June 26 2007	Evening Standard	Article	A-levels became a grade easier in the Blair era
June 25 2007	BBC News	Article	"Competition key" to good schools
June 25 2007	ITV.com	Article	"Send more kids to private schools"
June 25 2007	The Guardian	Article	Q&A: Grammar school policy
June 25 2007	The Guardian	Article	Raise standards through increase in grammar schools, thinktank urges
June 24 2007	Daily Telegraph	Article on Page 1	Grammar schools needed to raise standards
June 18 2007	BBC Radio Newcastle	Radio interview	Prof. David B. Smith on regional wages
June 18 2007	BBC Radio Wales	Radio interview	Prof. David B. Smith on regional wages
June 18 2007	Century Radio	Radio interview	Prof. David B. Smith on regional wages
June 18 2007	Swansea Bay Radio	Radio interview	Prof. David B. Smith on regional wages
June 18 2007	IC Wales	Article	Row over call to cut minimum Welsh wage
June 17 2007	Sunday Telegraph	Article	South "is funding North's dole pay" - see original paper here (Pages 9-27) and powerpoint of the paper here
May 11 2007	Financial Times	Attribution by Samuel Brittan	On ERC paper - Cracks in the Foundations
April / May 2007	World Finance Magazine	Article	The nightmare of a Chinese economic collapse
April 30 2007	The Daily Telegraph	Article	On new ERC paper - Cracks in the Foundations
April 19 2007	The Daily Telegraph	Letter	Defence Procurement
April 13 2007	The Times	Letter	Rail Mistake
March 30 2007	Bloomberg	Article coverage of ERC event	Scotland, the suicide capital of Europe
March 19 2007	The Yorkshire Post	Article	It's time to reform the National Lottery
March 2007	Power Engineer Magazine	Article	Renewables: how far can we go?
February 28 2007	18 Doughty Street online TV	Panel discussion	On the economic benefits and burdens of the European Union
February 2007	World Finance Magazine	Article by Dan Lewis	2007 to be the riskiest year yet
January 2007	Planning in London	Book Review by Dan Lewis	Ricardo's Law by Fred Harrison
January 2007	Planning in London	Talk by Dan Lewis	How extreme is Stern?
January 2007	World Finance	Article by Dan Lewis	Don't bet on climate change but embrace the technology
January 2007	Power Engineer	Article by Dan Lewis	Assessing the Stern Review
December 22	Yorkshire Post	Article by Dan Lewis	Do our debts add up to a financial crisis?
December 8	Portsmouth News	Article attribution	Deeper Cuts for Navy feared
December 7	The Times	Letter by Dan Lewis	This lottery waste
December 1	The Evening Standard	Article	BBC damaging music industry
December 1	The Metro	Article	BBC damaging music industry
December 1	Yahoo! Music	Article	BBC damaging music industry: report
December 1	24dash.com	Article	New report explores "crisis" in british music industry
December 1	The Times online	Article	BBC "damaging music industry"
November 30	The Business Magazine	Attribution	On economics of the music industry
November 30	Voice of Iraq	Article	IN ARABIC - Iraq's other power struggle
November 27	BBC World Service Radio	Interview	On the economics of Concentrated Solar Power stations in North Africa
November 27	The Guardian	Attribution	On the high cost of fusion energy
November 15	18 Doughty Street online TV	Interview	On the economic benefits and burdens of the European Union
November 15	Colourful Radio	Interview	On the costs of regional quangos
November 03	BBC Radio 5 Live	Interview	Lewis Page on Cost-Effective Defence - download mp3 here
November 03	Colourful Radio	Interview	On the Stern Review
October 30	BBC NEWS 24 TV	Interview	On the Stern Review
October 29	Sunday Telegraph	Attribution	On ERC defence paper - Cost-Effective Defence (N.B. WE ARE NOT THE IEA!)
October 24	Sky News TV	Interview	On Environmental Economics
Oct / Nov	Power Engineer Magazine	Article	Iraq's Other Power Struggle
Oct / Nov	World Finance Magazine	Article	The decline of Wall Street
October 22	BBC TV The Politics Show - London	Interview	On distributed generation
October 15	BBC TV The Politics Show - London	Interview	The London Development Agency
October 15	BBC TV The Politics Show	Interview	Quangos, the British Potato Council etc.
October 2	BBC Radio Essex	Interview	Quangos and democracy
September 23	Sunday Telegraph	Attribution	(Front Page) Taxpayers foot huge bill for quango state
September / October	Industrial Focus Magazine	Article	Power Relations
September 3	Sunday Times	Attribution	Pay £180bn: you've been quangoed
August 27	The Business	Attribution	Article by Dr Eamonn Butler on Quangos
August 27	The Business	Article	Energy Security is greatest worry, not climate change
August / September	World Finance Magazine	Article	The End of the Global Real Estate Boom - coming soon?
August	Power Engineer	Article	The New Economics of Energy Security
August 7 2006	Wall Street Journal	Article	Bound for Failure
July 2006	Eurofacts	Article	The flawed contradictions of regional government
July 2006	European Journal	Article	Europe's Energy Crunch
July 18 2006	Yorkshire Post	Article	Putin's Power Drive slows the faltering pace of freedom
July 12 2006	Wall Street Journal	Article by ERC authors on ERC pamphlet	Energy Insecurity
July 10 2006	BBC NEWS 24	TV	Dan Lewis talks about energy economics
July 09 2006	The Business	Pamphlet attribution	Areva will seek reactor license
June / July 2006	World Finance Magazine	Article	Back to the 70s - commodities, dollar, fear.
June / July 2006	Power Engineer	Interview	Counting Carbon - Dr Richard Sandor
June 13 2006	Yorkshire Post	Article	Why regional development policies are a flop
June 02 2006	Financial Times	Letter	Regime weakness is more apt for Europe
May 03 2006	The Guardian	Quote Attribution	The Association of Badly Named Quangos
April 28 2006	Russia Today	TV	Discussion on Gazprom and Centrica
April - May 2006	World Finance Magazine	Article	Offshoring 2.0 has just begun
April 16 -17 2006	The Business	Article	Britain's Energy Policy? Let good economics decide
April - July 2006 (Published)	Address to British Urban Regeneration Association (8th March)	Speech	Text of Speech as published in Planning in London Powerpoint presentation
2nd April 2006	Sunday Times	Attribution	Church denounces global warming but invests in oil
30th March 2006	Newsnight Scotland	TV	Discussion On Climate Change Review
29th March 2006	BBC Radio York	Broadcast	Global Warming - is it our fault?
29th March 2006	Daily Telegraph	Article	Going Green at home won't save the planet
22nd March 2006	Yorkshire Post	Article	Chancellor can still end our economic decline
19th March 2006	TV: The Politics Show West	TV	Quangos and accountability
9th March 2006	Yorkshire Post	Article	Special treatment for "key workers" is folly
27th February 2006	BBC 3 Counties Radio	Broadcast	On the Economics of Waste Management
27th February 2006	The Sun	Attribution	You know when you have been quango’d
7th February 2006	The Times	Letter	Gas supply chaos
31st January 2006	Whitehall & Westminster World	Article	Pussyfooting with Dr Pangloss
23rd January 2006	BBC 3 Counties Radio	Broadcast	On nuclear and peak oil
2nd January 2006	Yorkshire Post	Article	Power failure – decade of neglect
14th December 2005	Daily Telegraph	Letter	Offsetting pollution
13th December 2005	BBC Radio Ulster	Broadcast	On Northern Ireland Public Bodies and Local Government Reform
4th December 2005	Sunday Telegraph	Attribution	"The public sector fat cats"
29th November 2005	Free Market Lunch US talk show libertyconspiracy.com	Broadcast	Blair's Energy policy
22nd November 2005	Whitehall & Westminster World	Article	Nuclear Crunch Time Approaching
27th October 2005	Evening Standard	Attribution	Harry Phibbs on ERC Dinner with Christie Davies
12th October 2005	BBC Manchester	TV	Politics Show
Oct - Nov 2005	Power Engineer	Article	Electrifying Options
Oct - Nov 2005	Power Engineer	Article	Hot Stocks - Renewables and the Stockmarket
Oct - Nov 2005	Planning in London	Article	Move Government out of London
30th September 2005	Daily Telegraph	Letter	"Growing Energy Gap"
23rd September 2005	Yorkshire Post	Article	Oil prices fuel growing energy crisis
15th September 2005	3 Counties Radio	Broadcast	Energy gap, costs of Renewable Electricity and the impact of China on energy prices
6th August 2005	Daily Telegraph	Attribution	"Power prices rises turn up the heat on consumers"
18th July 2005	3 Counties Radio	Broadcast	ERC Energy Publication
5th July 2005	5 Live	Broadcast	Debate on importance of technology in light of energy and environmental challenges
1st June 2005	Yorkshire Post	Article	EU Talking shop dodges the real issues
19th April 2005	Whitehall & Westminster World	Article	The New Quango Policy
17th March 2005	Yorkshire Post	Article	Brown budgets for the perfect exit strategy
9th March 2005	Radio 4 You and Yours	Broadcast	Quangos
11th February 2005	Yorkshire Post	Article	Quango gravy train
11th February 2005	Daily Telegraph	Attribution	"Invasion of the bodies that snatch chunks of public money"
11th February 2005	Radio 4 Today Programme, BBC World Service, 5 live, 3 Counties Radio, Radio Essex, BBC Belfast, York Radio, News 24	Broadcast	Coverage of quango report
11th February 2005	All UK nationals (except the Times and the Guardian)	Attribution	Coverage of report into Quangos
11th February 2005	Power Economics	Article	The Hydrogen Economy - What Price and When?

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