- “School issues detentions for pupils who fail to wear masks” – Kensington Aldridge Academy in west London has written to parents to say it is “reintroducing short detentions for failing to wear masks”.
- “Boris should seize his Thatcher moment to take on the selfish unions ruining our schools” – The trade unionists’ mindless demands are making a full return of children to the classroom impossible, writes Juliet Samuel in the Telegraph.
- “‘Trapped’ in Hong Kong: zero-Covid misery casts shadow over financial hub’s future” – Notoriously strict rules threaten the region’s ability to retain talent, reports the Telegraph.
- “Novak Djokovic ‘free to leave at any time’ says Canberra as two other tennis players placed under investigation” – The World No. 1 spent a second day in immigration detention in Australia on Friday as his lawyers battled to secure his release, the Telegraph reports.
- “I stand with Novak Djokovic” – Is anyone else alarmed by the widespread glee at the way Novak Djokovic has been treated by the Aussies, asks Emily Hill in the Speccie.
- “Rod Liddle: ‘We’re being led by scientists, but not by science’” – The journalist speaks to Dan Wootton on GB News on the information scientists have provided on Omicron.
- “Judge Gives FDA Just Over Eight Months to Produce Pfizer’s Safety Data” – A federal judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to produce, at a rate of 55,000 pages per month, the documents it relied on to license the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, reports the Epoch Times. The FDA had asked for 75 years.
- “Why are northern European (except for Sweden) all cause deaths up in 2021 vs 2020?” – Covid deaths are way down, but overall deaths are up considerably. This is a puzzle that warrants attention, writes El Gato Malo on his Substack page.
- “Covidianism and the frightened crowd (Part II) ” – Covidianism is grounded in organised, government-led credentialism and scientism, writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook.
- “Colston Four case could be reviewed to avoid setting a dangerous legal precedent” – Court of Appeal may be asked whether the law was applied correctly after protesters who toppled sculpture were cleared, the Telegraph reports.
- “The case for the ‘Colston Four’ was not based on facts, but on political feelings” – If juries become auxiliaries of the sort of extremist politics that loves making trouble, they will no longer be pillars of our liberties, argues Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “The climate scaremongers: Extreme weather, 1961 style” – Paul Homewood in TCW looks back to the past and finds weather no less extreme than today.
- “Deliver us from Carrie” – Timothy Bradshaw in TCW calls on the henpecked PM to “drop his lunatic zero carbon axiom inflicting penury on non-wealthy people”.
- “Duke of Cambridge looking for ‘women-led solutions’ to save the planet as 2022 Earthshot Prize opens” – Prince William aims to find ‘wild card ideas’ to “repair and protect the environment”, with £1m prize offered, now apparently based on positive discrimination so the winner can really feel they didn’t deserve it.
- “I refuse to go quietly into the night” – Anti-extremism campaigner and radio host Maajid Nawaz has been axed by LBC, apparently over his criticism of Covid vaccines.
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What an insane world we live in where “Far Worse” is proclaimed as “Far Better”. The usual suspects would be up in arms if we sent 8 year olds to dig coal; they cheer on the 8 year olds who dig up deadly, non-recyclable poisons.
“Cleaner” is now “Buy the dirty stuff from abroad and then we are net Zero and clean, clean, clean”.
Drax, I see the trains every day. “Let’s go chop down massive trees, producing carbon, chip them, producing carbon, ship them to the docks and ship them across the Ocean producing carbon all the way. Then load them on a train and produce more carbon burning them” is the insane man’s way of reducing carbon.
The RSPCA and RSPB both cheer as bird populations head down the plughole due to wind farms. How on earth can the RSPB support birds being chopped to pieces in their thousands? How can the RSCPCA et al think that destroying packs of whales and dolphins is something to support?
The list goes on and the really worrying thing is that the Plebs are oblivious.
Well of course! I mean, coal? You must be mad!
And hasn’t this madness prospered under 14 years of fake Conservative governments?
Yes but they are all in on pretending to save the planet. You will find that in the next 10 years of a Labour Government we will pretend to save it even harder and faster.
To coin a phrase, the market’s volatile. I guess it’s possible that in the future, more advanced batteries capable of being installed in older cars might emerge as you alluded to with upgrading an old Nissan Leaf, but one is gambling when deciding what to invest in at the moment.
There is no gamble with EV’s, they are a guaranteed loser.
And our politicians is putting all our money on a losing horse. The perfectly good petrol and diesel cars are being taken out of the race.
Battery technology is over 150 years old. There are no ‘advances’ left, except maybe at the margins.
But most important – electric cars need electricity. We can hardly meet demand now, there just won’t be enough generated nor the grid infrastructure needed to transmit it for a future all-electric economy.
I really don’t think that’s the case. Lithium ion polymer batteries only really began in the 1990s and one of the guys who got a Nobel prize for that (John B Goodenough) was still working to try to find something better more or less right up to his death.
What is not great is that around 20 years after their first roll out and with, it would appear, minimal research, people decided that the tech could be scaled up from the 0.06kWh batteries typically found in laptop computers to the 24kWh batteries needed for a small car – a 400 fold increase in capacity – and then expect it to just continue working indefinitely at full efficiency (just like a laptop battery doesn’t).
I recall the worry in the mid 2000s when Sony made a bunch of laptop batteries that had a nasty tendency to erupt in flames – they were rightly treated with extreme suspicion on aeroplanes.
I’m sure there will be other breakthroughs in energy storage tech in future but the current state of the art is not Goodenough to base our car industry on it.
Updated to add: BEVs should have been designed with replaceable batteries. It should not cost thousands of pounds of labour to do the job.
Does anyone have any knowledge of BEV annual servicing costs? I’d be interested to hear.
The cars themselves are pretty volatile as well
“It is still a relatively new market and we can expect it to grow more as we move towards a more renewable future.”
If this wasn’t so dishonest it would be laughable. Talk about ‘1984.’
There’s a fantastic channel on YouTube.
Jennings Motor Sports.
That guy gets engines running which have sat abandoned for decades, sometimes as old as 100 years.
You can’t do that with a BEV after just two years of zero charge-discharge cycles.
LOL
They had electric cars around 100years ago but obviously not as popular as the ICE even then.
Daily Mail – always last with the latest News.
I predict the 2035 ban will become the 2040 ban, become the 2050 ban, etc.
Threatening car manufacturers, gas boiler makers won’t work either. Wherever sufficient demand exists, someone will find a way to supply profitably.
Also of course Party election funds, and grift for politicians means they have to keep on-side with big business.
Couldn’t agree more.
These numpties writing these “rules” have never had to make anything and never suffered directly as a result of their own, utter ineptitude.
They think electricity comes from the wall.
It seems clear that EVs are coming to be seen as a one owner commodity item for the large scale corporate sector. The re-cycling of scrapped EVs is difficult and expensive and the UK can only manage to run a much smaller number of EVs than it can petrol/diesel vehicles.
If they push ahead with this and unless they scrap the Climate Change Act they will have to; then low and middle income groups will increasingly be unable to run a private car. But possibly more insidious is that many small businesses, plumbers, electricians, builders, gardeners etc. may well find it too hard to run a van to operate their business. You will need to be a large corporate group running a fleet of EVs to make it viable. If my prediction is correct? then it will be another nail in the coffin of small businesses, all business will move to being done by large corporate groups capable of running a fleet of EV vehicles.
The globalists hate small businessess even more so the self employed. The government introduce more and more legislation to cripple small business so that corporations move in. Part of the convid scam was to destroy small businessess amongst other more nefarious reasons.
The Great Reset in a nutshell.
That’s corporatocracy for you!
As Neil oliver said. They want to reduce carbon and we are the carbon they want to reduce..
I bought a Toyota Avensis DXD diesel in January. 2.2td it is quick off the mark but the main reason I chose it over a Skoda Octavia diesel was because it has the chain drive belt, that should go at least 200k. Only 93k on it so hope I can get some good service out of it. I never like to miss an oil change and keep the service history fully stamped.
It could be said that the glory of a petrol engine is its inefficency. Consider the obverse of efficeincy, the price you pay when you pursue it. I am glad that momey is rapidly disappearing from investment into electric cars. It is crazy to sit on top of one of those batteries assured by the loving artificial intelligence of the car that its sensors will prevent any accident. This is not so and could never be so and you can find horrific videos that demonstrate this. I look forward to a time in the not too distant future when cars become like 1970s cars again and you can open them up and fix them yourself.
We’re also likely to reach a period when all the recently commissioned wind turbines reach end of life. That should be fun.
The thing is, the gov / new world order want electric cars to have limited mileage / are expensive etc. This is all part of the push to get us out of our cars and reduce our freedom. At the moment, car manufacturers are going along with all this bs because they are raking in new sales at vastly higher prices – a Toyota hybrid now costs over £30,000! The question is: when car sales drop off a cliff, what will they say then? Will they take a pay-off and cease to be, or fight for the future of the motor industry? I’m not sure.
EV’s are the Betamax of the automotive industry
Policies based on ideology rather than common sense or that are market based where people are given choice and often know best how to spend their own money will nearly always fail, unless they happen to get lucky. ——-Near where I live they are installing hydrogen heating into a bunch of houses from people who volunteered to have this instead of gas central heating. They were offered a free boiler etc and were told this was the future etc etc. One person in the chosen area which is in Buckhaven in Fife refused to have the Hydrogen because he did his own research into it and came to the conclusion that the long term cost would be excessive. he discovered that Hydrogen isn’t actually a fuel and it has to be manufactured which is an expensive process He decided it would not be good value for money at all. This is what the free market enables people to do. The trouble with all of the Green technologies is that we are mostly coerced into using them, and as we increasingly see with these technologies from our rising energy bills that they are not good value for money, and infact in many cases they do not even save the environment at all. The rare earth minerals and rare earth stuff that has to be mined for batteries is not very GREEN.
The mid term prospects for car ownership across society are not good because of this. Those who can’t afford new or nearly new are going to have supply issues in a few years, especially when initiatives like ULEZ takes a large number of perfectly serviceable cars out of the game as well.