Government needs U-turn over mania for nuclear plants

Its own infrastructure adviser says more renewables is the low-cost option

Here's a report that must not be lost in the noise of Brexit. The National Infrastructure Assessment is a once-a-parliament affair from a body that was created to save us from the deadly combination of politicians' machismo and the electoral cycle.

More prosaically, the National Infrastructure Commission's job is to inject long-term strategic thinking into the critical business of building important stuff. Its first report contains a devastating conclusion: the government should drop its obsession with building more and more nuclear power stations.