- “Covid inquiry demands to see Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages” – Chairman Baroness Hallett says the material is needed for context, but the Cabinet Office warns that disclosure would be a “serious intrusion of privacy”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Work from home experiment ‘risks destroying Britain’s growth engine’” – Sadiq Khan is urged to lower Tube fares on Mondays and Fridays to lure staff back to offices, according to the Telegraph.
- “False COVID-19 Vaccine Claims by Lancet: A Call for Retraction” – PANDA calls on the Lancet to retract a major paper claiming the Covid vaccines prevented 14.4 million deaths globally as it is “demonstrably incorrect in its assumptions”.
- “The Most Important Test You’ve Never Heard Of” – David Zweig reports on a test developed by Stanford scientists in May 2020 that was never rolled out but which distinguishes infectious from non-infectious infections and revealed that asymptomatic positives were infectious just 4% of the time.
- “It’s the biggest stitch-up since the Bayeux Tapestry! Andrew Pierce explains how Boris Johnson was left fuming by civil servants who called the police over his diaries from the Covid pandemic – and warns the ex-PM ‘won’t let this go’” – Pierce takes an in-depth look at the fierce row that has erupted in Westminster between the former premier and the civil service blob in the Mail.
- “The EU is deepening the energy crisis” – Brussels’ Net Zero obsession will make Europe poorer, colder and darker, says James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
- “Another wheel has come off the great electric car con” – Regulations which fixate on one form of pollution and ignore others ultimately help no-one, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “The inconvenient truth about heat pumps” – They’re expensive and impractical, so why is the Government obsessed with them, asks Ruth Bloomfield in the Spectator.
- “The vegan bubble is bursting – and it’s about time” – It looks as though manufacturers bit off more than they could chew when estimating how many of us would continue to buy plant-based products, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “Electric car owners ‘should be charged per-mile-driven tax as EVs damage roads more’” – The Centre for Policy Studies warns that battery powered car owners should start paying sooner rather than later to help plug a budget black hole, the Telegraph reports.
- “GB News named Britain’s most loved news brand just two years after launch” – The ‘People’s Channel’ came out on top in a survey of 45,000 Britons, according to, er, GB News – though it was an independent survey.
- “Black Lives Matter is headed for insolvency after plunging $8.5M into the red – but founder Patrisse Cullors’ brother was still paid $1.6M for ‘security services’ in 2022, while sister of board member earned $1.1M for ‘consulting’” – BLM’s Global Network Foundation, which officially emerged in November 2020, is in dire financial straits, according to its most recent financial disclosure, amid questions over where the money has been going, the Mail reports.
- “Is this Calvin Klein’s ‘Bud light moment?’ Ad featuring trans ‘man’ who’s not had top surgery modelling a bra sparks backlash – as shoppers say it’s a ‘far cry’ from their usual snaps of chiseled models” – A Calvin Klein advert featuring a trans ‘man’ posing in a sports bra has sparked furious backlash after going viral online Twitter, the Mail reports.
- “Gary Lineker: The Virtue-signallers’ Virtue-signaller” – Gary Lineker’s Amnesty International Human Rights award is a slap in the face for the working class, who suffer mass immigration without virtue signalling, says Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “The woke blob is about to achieve its greatest triumph: its final takeover of Britain” – Writing in the Telegraph, Allister Heath argues the only hope is a Ron DeSantis inspired fightback against Left-wing institutional capture.
- “Oxford and Cambridge are locked in death spiral of competitive intolerance” – For too long, our preeminent universities have effectively been outbidding each other over cancellations, but finally the tide may be turning, writes Charlie Bentley-Astor in the Telegraph.
- “The NIH-published study that exposes the gulf between trans athletes and women in sports: Male-to-female transitioners are faster, stronger and fitter than most women even after taking hormone drugs” – A major review published by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) last August suggests early exposure to testosterone means trans women have physiological benefits over biological women, the Mail reports.
- “I’m running for President to lead our Great American Comeback” – Anti-lockdown, anti-woke leader Ron DeSantis launches his Presidential bid on Twitter.
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Sadly, monetary expenditure doesn’t matter when it comes to “saving the planet”. It’s more important to be seen to be “doing the right thing by the environment” regardless of the cost. OK, the population may be saddled with crippling taxes, OK, the economy might crash, OK, society might crumble under the pressure, but we’ll be able to hold our heads up high as a nation and say “We did our bit by reducing the world’s carbon emissions by 1%”. And then sit back and realise that all the pain it’s inflicted on us has had no effect on the climate after all.
Yep, you got it in one.
Cost per house? “We do not have an accurate cost per property to provide this information”
This is a lie, obviously. They must have paid invoices for equipment and installation. Ergo, the cost is grossly disproportionate to any alleged benefit.
Weasel words – ‘We don’t know accurately the cost per property because we know we can’t just add it all up and divide by eight because some properties had PV and some had thermal solar panels. Therefore, it’s technically true that we can’t give an accurate cost per property.’
The fact they’ve refused suggests they’ve spent more than £60,000 x 8 = £480,000. If not, they’d be patting each other on the back about the massive savings they’d made.
I hope the information commissioner does not back the refusal of the FOI request on the basis that revealing the costs would be too controversial.
Yes, they lie.
Or it was paid to a few councillors mates?
Milton Friedman’s 4th way of spending money illustrated perfectly. Spending other people’s money on other people means you are not interested in either price or quality. Government spending in a nutshell – just spend it.
172 years? Nonsense. It’ll only take 12 years (if energy prices increase at 50% per year).
Exactly the same as my council. The only eco-focused properties in the borough are those built by the taxpayers’ £££s. No intention to find out if it’s value for money.
Such standards are classed as “nice to have” where private housing is being proposed, despite the declaration of the climate crisis. Hypocrisy writ large.
It isn’t supposed to be monitored they make the momey upfront because the agenda is purpose built to funnel money that way to the appropriate parties. They did well out of it. Never mind that it is fading now they are pulling money out and making money on the way down just look at electric cars.
This is par for the Net Zero course. Net Zero was waved through parliament with no discussion of cost/benefit. There was no debate and no vote. The Political Class have imposed this on us all under the false pretences of a climate crisis in order to comply with the UN’s Sustainable Development goals. Our governments are simply local administrators implementing globalist mandates, and taking their instructions from the UN/WEF. We are simply an inconvenience to them and any concerns we have are brushed aside.
All dead but we pay anyway. Can you even conceive of a way that we would get the lost money back from the last forty years. The best we can do is stop it and never allow it to happen again.
I can conceive that if they re-introduced gladiatoral combat, with the Uniparty clowns who gave us all this crap and the eco-profiteers who paid them, scrapping with hungry tigers and lions, the ticket sales would make a very big contribution to the lost money.
And hugely enhance public jollity.
I think we have to be a bit more aggressive in our response to this sort of obfuscation. When people complete these schemes, and refuse to reveal their results, we should be saying, very loudly indeed, that the only possible reason is that they have failed. And asking not what the results really were, but why they refuse to admit failure.
With Socialists it’s money no object so long as it’s not their own.