- “Labour ditches £28bn green investment pledge” – Kier Starmer is due to announce tomorrow that it is ditching its policy of spending £28 billion a year on its green investment plan in a major U-turn.
- “Labour’s home insulation policy will cost double what it claims, says Treasury” – A new Treasury analysis has found that Labour’s plan to improve energy efficiency across millions of homes would cost more than double the amount the party has claimed, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ursula von der Leyen scraps pesticide reduction bill, in gift to farmers” – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that she will scrap a contentious upcoming bill that aimed to slash the use of chemical pesticides in agriculture, reports Politico.
- “Wind farm operator forced to cut hundreds of jobs” – Ørsted, one of Britain’s largest offshore wind developers, has been forced to cut hundreds of jobs and quit several global markets as it battles spiralling costs, says the Telegraph.
- “Pret axes last three vegetarian-only stores” – Pret a Manger is set to axe its last three vegetarian-only eateries and convert them into normal outlets due to a slump in demand for meat-free sandwiches, reports the Mail.
- “The great electric car lie is a monstrous deception against the British public” – It’s laughable for eco zealots to blame Rowan Atkinson for the low take-up of EVs. It’s just not rational for most people to buy one, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Is the public’s love affair with electric cars over?” – Sales of new electric cars have been slowing down in Britain, raising questions over whether the public could be falling out of love with the green machines, reports the Mail.
- “Fact check: Tim Spector’s frightening climate claims” – The BBC just can’t seem to stop itself trying to frighten people over climate change, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Gary Lineker’s latest claim is utterly humiliating for BBC bosses” – When Gary Lineker gets the BBC in trouble, they don’t sack him. Instead, they indulge him even more, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “A proportionate response” – Informed by Jewish law, Israel has sought to minimise civilian casualties in Gaza, writes Shlomo Brody in City Journal.
- “GB News presenter Neil Oliver cleared by Ofcom over ‘turbo cancer’ claims” – Presenter Neil Oliver has been cleared by the broadcasting watchdog after he pushed claims that the vaccines caused ‘turbo cancer’, reports the Times.
- “Lockdown generation lacks basic workplace skills, Tory grandee warns” – Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith says the disruption to education caused by the Covid lockdowns has robbed British youngsters of the chance to learn technical skills, according to the Mail.
- “The cost of lockdown is still becoming more devastating by the day” – Young Britons will continue to pay the price for lockdown for a generation to come, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “Official COVID-19 claims – untouched disinformation or when fact-checking goes silent” – Those in power who have declared “the fight against disinformation” to be a key challenge for humanity have spread a lot of it during the Covid crisis, writes Theo L. Glück on Substack.
- “New emails show Amazon caved to Biden admin pressure to censor Covid books that expressed dissenting views” – New emails show Amazon colluding with the Biden White House and censoring Covid-related books, reports Didi Rankovic in Reclaim The Net.
- “Fluoride to be added to drinking water under new legal powers” – Fluoride will be added to drinking water for millions of Britons under new legal powers in the biggest expansion of the health measure since the 1980s, says the Telegraph. Should we be worried?
- “NHS dentistry crisis exacerbated by immigration, Sunak told” – Tory MPs and Reform U.K. say the number of new arrivals in Britain is driving an “unquenchable demand” for health services, reports the Telegraph.
- “How to get Brits to have more babies” – The common denominator in countries with rising fertility is economic growth, observes Madeleine Armstrong in CapX
- “‘Londoners deserve a new kind of politics’” – The Social Democratic Party’s Amy Gallagher talks to Spiked about why she is challenging Sadiq Khan in the London mayoral election.
- “Fascism expert warns that ‘2024 might be the new 1933’ because ‘disinformation’ is driving the rise of ‘far Right parties’ that will allow Vladimir Putin to annex Eastern Europe” – Maybe, just maybe, the National Socialists are dead and gone, and these stupid historical comparisons have no relevance to modern politics, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “How primed for war Is China?” – China’s risk signals for a conflict are flashing red, say Profs. Michael Beckley and Hal Brands in Foreign Policy.
- “Rishi Sunak risks backlash with trans swipe at PMQs” – Labour was accused of “weaponising” the murder of trans teenager Brianna Ghey amid a row over an attempt by Rishi Sunak to mock Keir Starmer’s position on gender rights, says the Mail.
- “No, Rishi Sunak should not apologise for his ‘trans jibe’” – It is the chattering classes’ weaponisation of Brianna Ghey’s death that is truly offensive, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “A social media ban is not the way to protect children online” – Tragedies make for bad policy, and the murder of the teenager Brianna Ghey is no different, says Matthew Feeney in CapX.
- “Another pillar of Queen Nicola’s woke legacy has crumbled” – None of Nicola Sturgeon’s mistakes can compete with her insistence that trans women are women, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Swansea University censorship row after pulling Trans book from shelf” – Swansea University has been accused of censoring Helen Joyce after library staff pulled her book from a display following a single complaint, reports the Mail.
- “Feminism run amok” – On the Aporia Substack, Eirik Garnås explains how feminism hurts both men and women.
- “Angry Christians say Canterbury Cathedral’s silent disco should be cancelled” – Angry Christians are calling for an “absurd” silent disco being held in Canterbury Cathedral to be cancelled and are planning a protest, according to KentOnline.
- “Why Elon Musk and a Star Wars actor are going to war with Disney” – Mandalorian star Gina Carano claims her politics got her fired – and she has a billionaire on her side. What happens next could change Hollywood, says Ed Power in the Telegraph.
- “Biden’s AI plan to censor you revealed” – A new Republican report reveals how the Biden administration is spending millions on AI research designed to make anti “misinformation” tools which could then be passed to social media giants, reports the NY Post.
- “YouTube CEO vows to censor ‘hate speech’ and boost ‘authoritative sources’ in recommendations when people look for election news in 2024” – Big Tech is taking a bigger role in moderating online speech in 2024, writes Christina Maas in Reclaim The Net.
- “Newcastle United fan banned over gender-critical posts ‘not an isolated case’” – The Free Speech Union’s Toby Young warns the Premier League might have been investigating 1000s of people’s social media accounts for wrongthink, according to GB News.
- “‘She is one us and it could have happened to any of you!’” – On TalkTV, Julia Hartley-Brewer urges fans to boycott Newcastle United games in support of Linzi Smith, the fan who was banned for posting her views about transwomen on X.
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