Centrica/Gazprom: Chilling bid talk

The cold war is back, literally. Temperatures have plummeted through Europe, straining Russian gas supplies and leaving hundreds dead. Meanwhile the political temperature has cooled too, after Russia said British spies were active in Moscow using «listening stones». It could hardly be a worse moment for Gazprom to say it wants to take over 20% of the UK gas market by 2015, perhaps via acquisitions. But that’s what the Russian behemoth has done. Its export chief even dangled the idea that Centri...