Indeed , while greens have fawned over its much-vaunted solar subsidies programme , germany has actually been on a coal building boom , bringing 11 gigawatts of coal-fired generation online six times the electricity it gets from solar in the past 10 years alone .
That power produces arrogance and when it is toughened by tebbitry and flattered and fawned upon by spineless sycophants , the boot-licking tabloid knights of fleet street and placemen in the quangos , the arrogance corrupts absolutely .