- “WHO sounds major alarm over ‘concerning’ Covid wave coming this winter” – The World Health Organisation has warned of “concerning trends” for COVID-19 ahead of winter as a dangerous new strain runs rampant across the Northern Hemisphere, reports the Express.
- “Top WHO scientist fired after allegations of sexual misconduct” – A senior World Health Organisation scientist has been fired following an investigation into sexual misconduct, including an allegation that he removed his trousers in the presence of a female colleague, according to the Telegraph.
- “Only Sweden had the right COVID-19 response” – Sweden, Scandinavia’s largest country, avoided lockdowns and mask mandates. The result: fewer excess deaths and much less social damage, writes Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe.
- “Get a new Covid shot? The evidence suggests otherwise” – Taking a new Covid shot every winter to avoid Covid has no empirical basis or evidence; the same applies to the flu shot, says Prof. Eyal Shahar on Medium.
- “Anthony Fauci’s very bad week” – Brownstone Institute’s Jeffrey A. Tucker evaluates Anthony Fauci’s week in the wake of a car crash interview on CNN and some leaked emails.
- “Homeowners hit with Ulez charges without leaving the house” – Homeowners are being hit with Ulez charges without leaving the house as tradesmen include Ulez charges in bills, says the Express.
- “Nobody wants an electric car” – Despite the Government’s increasingly desperate efforts, the awkward truth is that most people simply refuse to make the switch to electric vehicles, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Why eco zealots love to hate Ryanair” – Spiked’s Tom Slater comments on Michael O’Leary, the motormouth boss of budget airline Ryanair, having a cream pie smashed in his face on a trip to Brussels.
- “Climate scientist admits overhyping impact of global warming on wildfires to get published” – Dr. Patrick Brown claims research that cuts against the “mainstream narrative” on climate change is “taboo” in certain journals, reports the Telegraph. (You read it here first.)
- “Narendra Modi: Don’t lecture us on climate change” – Narendra Modi warns Western nations against forcing strict climate policies on developing countries, ahead of hosting a key G20 summit in Delhi, according to the Times.
- “China is building new coal power so fast that ‘energy transition’ by the West is meaningless” – Even if the U.S. went completely off coal tomorrow, its coal-fired power stations would be more than replaced by China’s, writes David Blackmon in the Telegraph.
- “The ideologues behind the RAAC crisis” – Writing in UnHerd, Nicholas Boys Smith slams reckless post-war architects, their minds twisted by progressive gobbledegook, for designing death-trap buildings using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete.
- “Birmingham council slammed for £10 million spend on 2.5-mile cycle lane” – Furious families in Birmingham are asking why their bankrupt council spent £10 million on a ‘cycle highway’ that is wider than a bus lane and causes traffic chaos, reports the Mail.
- “Students must be able to explore views which others find offensive” – Prof. Arif Ahmed, the new free speech tsar, has said it is important for students to be able to “explore a range of views that perhaps others might find difficult to cope with or might find offensive”, according to an interview with Louisa Clarence-Smith in the Telegraph.
- “Majority of civil servants found to ‘shun the office in favour of WFH’” – According to data, the majority of Whitehall staff are working from home, reports the Mail.
- “U.K. backs down over scanning of apps for harmful content under Online Safety Bill” – Ministers appear to have defused a row with tech companies over fears that the Government would give Ofcom the power to break into encrypted apps to search for child abuse material, reports the Times.
- “The political elite has given up on Britain” – Labour and the Tories have joined forces to condemn Britain to national failure. Their views are virtually indistinguishable, laments Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “If the Last Night of the Proms goes, nothing else is safe” – The BBC can’t be trusted with culture. It’ll scrap The Last Night of the Proms when it thinks it can get away with it, writes Lord Frost in the Telegraph.
- “When will the Tories clear up the transgender confusion?” – Rishi Sunak promised that guidance on transgender pupils would be in teachers’ hands “for the summer term”, but we’re still waiting, says Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “Graham Linehan isn’t alone in deserving an apology” – In the Telegraph, Ella Whelan tips her hat to author John Boyne for his ‘cancellation apology’ to Graham Linehan. Now, while we’re at it, we could do with a few more apologies.
- “There’s nothing ‘homophobic’ about the word ‘homosexual’” – Owen Jones and his fellow gender cultists forget that biological sex is fundamental to sexuality, remarks Gareth Roberts in Spiked.
- “Wild West Yorkshire policing” – West Yorkshire Police have outdone themselves by grilling a 73 year-old retired social worker over snapping a photo of a sticker at a local Pride event, writes Prof. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Róisín Murphy breaks silence to promote album after trans pile-on” – According to the Mail, Róisín Murphy is self-promoting her new album after her record label declined to support the release due to her sensible comments about puberty blockers.
- “The new James Bond would be on his seventh booster” – It was always on the cards, but Bond has swapped his Martini (shaken, not stirred) for a Bud Light and turned well and truly woke, says the Naked Emperor on Substack.
- “Bad trans-actions” – The destructive transgender fad shows no sign of abating in California, but as school resumes, resistance is mounting, writes Larry Sand in City Journal.
- “Bill Gates’ foundation made a nearly $100 million bet on Bud Light” – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust has recently purchased 1.7 million shares of Anheuser-Busch, despite the beer company experiencing a steep sales slump attributed to its Bud Light partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, according to CNN Business.
- “Donald Trump says he ‘would love’ to debate Meghan Markle” – Donald Trump is eager to square off in a debate with the Duchess of Sussex over her treatment of the Queen, reports the NY Post.
- “Laura Dodsworth: What they’re trying to do constantly is link heat with danger” – Journalist and author Laura Dodsworth joins Dan Wootton on GB News to discuss how the chilling forms of propaganda utilised during Covid are now being used to push an extreme climate change narrative.
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‘Renewables’? How are rare metals (some not so rare, but lithium certainly is), renewable? Cui bono from the mining and usage of such minerals? Does little Gaia magically manufacture these elements and minerals? How is bird chopping and eco devastation from panels and turbines ‘renewable’? How are they manufactured, transported and setup on site? How are they maintained? How much oil needs to grease the bird slicers? How often is it changed? How do you charge your EV? What happens when it dies? etc etc. etc
The stupid of the modern age, really f*ing hurts.
Not to mention that the windmills must keep turning, even when there is no wind (i.e. they use electricity to rotate). If they are stationary for too long, the bearings become unbalanced.
There is the bigger broader agenda of Social Justice and Sustainable Development, for which Climate Change is just a tool. Or as George Chirac pointed out some years ago that Kyoto was a “genuine component of world governance”. Global treaty’s like Kyoto, Copenhagen and Paris enable progressives to work around National Interests, because national interests have no place in their World order. We now have the “International Community” and under the guise of stabilising the climate, infact climate is really just the means by which activists as part of this “Community” can achieve world governance based on progressivism. But because temperatures are not rising as climate models projected, extreme weather has become the new means to insist humans are interfering in climate. Every storm, food or drought is because of our greenhouse gasses, with zero evidence for that., but when you have a compliant media telling the whole of the western world on the 6 o’clock news that we have a “climate emergency” who needs evidence? When no one can falsify any of this “crisis” stuff (1) It isn’t science, and (2) It isn’t evidence of anything, it is just the language of politics. or as Richard Lindzen pointed out —————“Climate alarm belongs to a class of issues for which there is no evidence and is characterised as immorality pretending to virtue”.
It’s not just fear and panic. It’s a marketing tactic, with a profit to make, from equipment manufacturing, and maintenance, disposing of scrap, and so on.
A statement like
Climate change isn’t solely to blame for extreme weather, but… it stacks the deck against us… it’s baked in with our weather and often a key ingredient in the outcome… it supercharges normal weather patterns, like steroids.
is content-free fear-mongering. It’s actually even worse than that: Literally, this is complete nonsense. Climate change isn’t a rational actor trying to get us by cheating (stacking the deck), life isn’t a poker play with possibly stacked decks, nobody knows exactly what a weather pattern is supposed to be, let alone a normal one, as opposed to an unnormal one (how can one tell one from the other?) and there’s certainly not way to charge or even supercharge patterns.
The only meaning of this sentence is someting like An inhuman, shady entity with magic superpowers is seeking to ensnare and ruin you! Beware! Be afraid! Be very afraid! Sounds awfully like the traditional Puritan story of Satan lurking in the wilderness to corrupt and destroy the good people (of Salem, to wit). In more rational times, people making such statements would have been laughed out of of house (or put into a sanatorium).
Another neat take down of how climate emergency journalism works from the pen of Mr Morrison. Keep it up.
I am a sensible environmentalist but these extremist climate activists and policies are destroying true environmentalism. Their policies and actions are so politicized and impractical and not based on any engineering, they are destroying the environment themselves. Wind turbines and electric cars are not environmentally friendly nor sustainable. They direct funds away from real environmental problems such as garbage management, sewage disposal and over use of pesticides, to name just a few issues.
I don’t think anyone truly knows how much human activity affects weather and climate, there are too many variables, but surely the huge change to forest cover especially across the equator has an impact? Trouble is politicians and globalists have latched onto CO2 theories as a way to gain leverage and impose their command and control agendas on us, even though those theories now seem to be wrong.