News Round-Up
7 July 2025
There's been a lot of noise about Keir Starmer's decision to scrap Labour's £28bn green spending pledge. But there's a much bigger Labour pledge that's being overlooked: decarbonising the electricity grid by 2030.
Does Michael Mann's libel victory over Mark Steyn mean we're saddled with his hockey stick climate chart forever, asks Tony Morrison. Or will good science eventually triumph over bad?
The judge who let off a Hamas-sympathising protester, liked a Free Palestine post and convicted retired police officers for WhatsApp messages has been appointed to the Judicial Appointments Commission.
"The only surprise is he hasn't named one the Sadiq line": Sadiq Khan was today blasted for "virtue-signalling nonsense" as he unveiled new names and colours for all six London Overground rail lines in a £6.3m project.
We're having a "national conversation about the future of money", according to the Bank of England. But it's clear this "conversation" has only one permitted outcome, says Dr David McGrogan: the digital pound.
French media are reporting an exodus of scores of Jews from Paris schools due to increasing antisemitic "attacks and threats" as Heads say they cannot "ensure their protection".
The Met Office has admitted it is unable to back up a claim by its senior meteorologist on BBC Radio that storms in the U.K. are "more intense" due to the effects of climate change.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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