# Oxford power cut prompts Hitchens to warn of Britain’s grid vulnerability

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-sinister-ghostly-groan-as-the-power-in-my-house-died-is-a-sound-that-will-soon-be-familiar-to-us-all-thanks-to-net-zero-peter-hitchens/
- Published: 2026-11-05T01:00:46+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T01:12:18+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16266385/power-house-died-sound-familiar-Net-Zero-PETER-HITCHENS.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Business, Economy, UK, World

## Key points

- A local Oxford power cut lasted a few hours.
- The cause was damage to a mains cable.
- Hitchens warns Britain’s grid is vulnerable to wider outages.

## Summary

Peter Hitchens says a power cut at his Oxford home made him fear how dependent daily life is on electricity, and argue that Britain’s grid is increasingly vulnerable. He links the risk to the shift towards Net Zero, warning that a wider blackout could take days to fix and disrupt the economy.

The local outage lasted a few hours; Hitchens was told someone had cut into a mains cable, though he does not know who. He recalls relying on a generator during power failures in Baghdad and contrasts that with Britain’s reliance on a stable grid. The article also points to a power transmission crisis on 23 June as a warning, while acknowledging experts disagree about its severity.

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