- “The world stands on the brink of all-out war” – Israel will have no choice other than to respond to the attack by Iran, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “IDF says it has approved plans for ‘offensive and defensive action’” – Israel has described Iran’s unprecedented 350-missile attack as a “declaration of war” and confirmed it has approved plans for “offensive and defensive action”, according to the Mail.
- “Biden tells Netanyahu U.S. will not support a strike on Iran” – Joe Biden reportedly warned Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. will not participate in any Israeli counter-attacks against Iran, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ex-spy chief: Iran attack against Israel is ‘face-saving’ exercise’” – An ex-British military intelligence chief says that Iran’s drone and missile attack against Israel is a “face-saving” exercise, says the Mail.
- “RAF shot down ‘a number’ of Iranian attack drones, Sunak confirms” – The Prime Minister has confirmed that Royal Air Force pilots shot down “a number” of Iran’s drones during the overnight attack on Israel, according to the Telegraph.
- “How RAF Typhoons and their pilots’ bionic helmets helped Israel repel Iran’s drone onslaught” – In the Telegraph, Sean Rayment and Sophia Yan detail how British jets took to the skies to defend Israel.
- “Israel urges U.K. to proscribe Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as terrorist group” – Israel has urged allies, including Britain, to proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group following the drone and missile attacks on the country, reports the Telegraph.
- “Despite their failed attack, Iran should not be underestimated” – Iran’s military would have made certain that both Israel and more importantly, the U.S., knew what was coming, writes Sean Rayment in the Spectator.
- “Iran has just exposed how impotent it really is” – Tehran must now fear it lacks the military power needed to realise its malign intentions, says Con Coughlin in the Telegraph.
- “All Iran’s mullahs have managed to do is to unite their enemies against them” – Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his acolytes appear to have made an egregious strategic error, writes David Patrikarakos in the Mail.
- “Was Israel’s defence against Iranian barrage a success? Think again” – The fightback on Saturday night showed that Israel has only a limited self-sufficiency in security matters, says Roger Boyes in the Sunday Times, needing American, British, Jordanian and Saudi help to repel Iran’s attack.
- “What Iran’s failed attack says about Israel” – Iran’s attack on Israel exposed not just the strength of Israel’s alliance but Iran’s isolation, with worldwide condemnation, writes Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
- “U.K. terror attack warning as Iran ‘could launch operations’ if conflict escalates” – Leading expert Dr. Alan Mendoza warns that the likelihood of terror attacks striking the U.K. could increase if the conflict in the Middle East continues to intensify, according to Christopher Sharp in the Express.
- “Do what you must, Israel, after this appalling attack” – If so many weapons of destruction had rained down on Britain, would we be listening to those urging caution? asks Andrew Neil in the Mail.
- “Britain’s Jewish community put on high alert after Iran attack on Israel” – The Community Security Trust – a charity that exists to protect Jews from antisemitic attacks – says it has issued a notice to Jewish organisations to upgrade security measures in light of Iran’s attack on Israel.
- “‘Disgrace’ – Nigel Farage rages at ‘deeply disturbing’ university appointment” – Nigel Farage has ripped into the appointment of a pro-Palestine rector at Glasgow University, according to the Express.
- “Vile video of university rector at Palestine extremist’s memorial” – Glasgow University is under pressure to censure its new rector after a video emerged showing him weeping over the death of a Palestinian terrorist, reports the Mail.
- “Islamic extremists ‘planning to bomb Eurovision Song Contest’” – According to guards at the biggest mosque in Malmo, Islamic extremists are planning to bomb the Eurovision Song Contest in protest at Israel taking part, according to the Mail.
- “BBC Arabic presenter says guest should apologise over sympathy for Israel” – A BBC Arabic show suggested a guest should apologise for showing sympathy towards Israel, says the Telegraph.
- “BBC cuts council house row question from Rayner interview” – The BBC is under fire after cutting a question to Angela Rayner about whether she broke the electoral law aftter Labour staffers expressed “concerns”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Is this the end of Angela Rayner?” – In politics, behaviour is often only incidental to the scale of the scandal, remarks John Oxley in UnHerd.
- “A quarter of people now want to work fully remotely, research finds” – Working from home has become one of the key battlegrounds in the culture wars, and now almost one in four people believe they should even be allowed to WFA (work from abroad), reports the Mail.
- “Families to fight end-of-life gagging orders in Supreme Court” – Two families in end-of-life cases are set to battle in the Supreme Court against gagging orders which they say prevent them from holding doctors to account, says the Telegraph.
- “YouTuber makes a fortune filling out disability applications for £650” – Charlotte Anderson, from Bucknall in Staffordshire, uses insider know-how to fill out customers’ disability applications – at £650 a pop, reports the Mail.
- “Indulgent benefits encouraging a generation of idleness” – Dr. Max Pemberton challenges readers not to be horrified by the Mail on Sunday’s exposé of money drained from the benefits system by malingerers.
- “Comedians risk arrest under Scotland’s new hate crime law” – Pub Landlord comedian Al Murray says Scotland’s new hate crime law has put comedians at risk of being arrested for gags that are just meant as tongue-in-cheek, according to the Mail.
- “How the SNP became trapped by ‘woke groupthink’ – and why it matters” – The Cass review into gender treatment has highlighted how the SNP’s focus on independence has left it vulnerable to influence by ‘supportive’ organisations with their own agenda, says Mike Wade in the Sunday Times.
- “Cigar-chomping Winston Churchill would back smoking ban – Minister” – Health Secretary Victoria Atkins used Churchill to hit back at Conservative MPs who are critical of the plan for a rolling age limit on using tobacco, according to the Mail.
- “Who not to vote for?” – To vote or not to vote? That is the question, says Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Rishi Sunak blasts European court ‘over-reach’ on Net Zero” – Rishi Sunak has hit out at the “complete overreach” by the European Court of Human Rights which has imposed a legal obligation on governments to achieve Net Zero, reports the Mail.
- “Europe trails China and U.S. after ‘monumental’ energy mistakes, IEA chief says“ – The International Energy Agency chief slams Europe for making “two historic monumental mistakes” in energy policy by relying on Russian gas and turning away from nuclear power, according to the FT.
- “German companies deserve blame for deindustrialisation” – Germany’s industrial titans, once supportive of environmental policies, now criticise them, writes Ralph Schoellhammer in UnHerd.
- “How Scotland’s solar speed cameras have failed… due to a lack of sun!” – Scotland’s solar-powered speed cameras are useless due to budgetary constraints and the country’s cloudy skies, reports the Mail.
- “Richard Hammond makes feelings clear on electric vehicles and predicts most cars will be petrol by 2050” – Richard Hammond predicts that the majority of cars will be petrol by 2050, despite plans to massively expand EV sales, says GB News.
- “Why ‘the dam would break’ if Shell quit the FTSE” – Shell is considering quitting the FTSE amid negative sentiment towards oil and gas companies and an aggressive green agenda in Europe, reports the Telegraph.
- “Climate cooking” – On Substack, Roger Pielke Jr. explains how a few billionaires helped push climate science to the extremes.
- “Why academia failed to challenge trans ideology” – Any academic who dares to question gender identity ideology can expect obstacles at every stage of the research process, writes Frederick Attenborough for the FSU’s News Blog.
- “Ridicule over university’s ‘trans archeology’ course” – A taxpayer-funded course exploring “Transphobic Invocations of Archaeology’ at the University of York has been branded a “scam” by a Conservative MP, according to GB News.
- “Woke studies at uni have hit a new low – and your taxes are paying for it” – That there is money for three years of fully paid-up research on “subcultural homosexual enunciations” is as funny as it is depressing, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Are phones really frying kids’ brains?” – Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Anxious Generation has started a debate about the pros and cons of children owning smart phones, writes Matthew Feeney in CapX.
- “The 50 biggest freedom fighters in the world today” – In his new Outspoken countdown, Dan Wootton reveals his list of the world’s biggest freedom fighters. Toby comes in at no.18.
- “Shunned for being a non-woke comedian in Britain?” – On The State Of It podcast, Lewis Brackpool is joined by Nick Dixon to discuss identity politics in stand-up comedy, Ofcom and the two-party system.
- “Best post-fight interview of all time?” – Brazilian UFC star Renato Moicano capped his knockout performance at UFC 300 by urging anyone who loves their country to “read Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian Economic School, motherfuckers!”
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Whatever the IPCC may decide, big non Western countries (soon to be joined by the US) have no interest in prioritising emission reduction. As these countries (including the US) are the source of about 80% of global GHG emissions, emissions will continue to increase. And there’s nothing the rest of us can do about it.
No, no! Russia, China and India are fully signed up to Net Zero. Honest!
I’m sure xi Jinping signed any agreements asked of him.. and then walked away giggling
(As we ought to!)
The UN classifies India and China as ‘Developing Countries’ and therefore not part of the restrictions being demanded. The fact that the two biggest ‘poluters’ are effectively allowed to emit whatever they want, puts to bed that this is ‘scientific’ in any way. Climate Emergency, my arse…
Why wouldn’t they be “fully signed up to it” when they are absolutely aware that this entire hoax, from it’s inception, had been designed to destroy “the West”?
Statements are easy to find from Maurice Strong, Christiana Figueres, Otmar Edenhoffer and others, that IPPC’s aims have little to do with the Environment but rather to destroy Capitalism.
India and China are both “developing” countries who, despite space programmes and nuclear weapons, unashamedly hold out the old begging bowls!
All these people want is money, money and more money. At least the reasonable ones, ie not the Eat more plant-based fast food to save the planet!-faction.
But there’s so many silly brain washed naive virtue signalling idiots out there as well.
People can join, support and become active with ReformUK if they wish to do something to stop the Net Zero madness.
I think we can make a reasonable guess into which way this is going to go!
IPCC will become the global leaders in attribution, too much is at stake for the Alarmist narrative for it to be anything else!
Britain, as it follows the commands of Mad Ed Miliband will just become world leaders in economic suicide and societal collapse. And yes, we will win that race to the bottom, about the only race we can win!
But will the living standards of Miliband suffer?
This depends on how early he manages to get out of the country. Once the masses of global majority immigrants with scant – if any – command of English in London get cold and hungry, ie, start dying of starvation and hypothermia, they’ll find someone they will hold responsible for that. Hunger revolts ended Xi’s great Corona musical. They’ll also become the Ed stone marking Miliband’s final resting place.
This lot are running into a brick wall called reality, where governments such as ours are coming after ever greater tax takes and one of the causes, is their obsession with Nut Zero…..people then start asking questions and looking into the reasons and when they see the people/organisations behind this thinking are babbling bollox, rather than serious science…..but enjoying a very comfy lifestyle……they get very unhappy, very quickly……
Plus the IPCC may well be thinking we better start backing off, because President Trump is coming to town, to run a government that is also flat broke …but has a new governmental dept, whose job is to savagely cut expenditure, everywhere…….and who is the UN’s biggest contributor…yup the US……Good luck babbling scientific bollox to Musk….while flying all over the world, to wherever the next COP is, on a private jet, all on the US’s ticket.
No, IMO it’s much more sinister than that. They are aware the Global Warming narrative is stalling. So they now need to recognise the role of weather modification is playing so they can use it as an excuse. “Oh look at that, Gates projects to block out the sun is working and that’s why there’s been no global warming. But we still need the measures, it’s only being suppressed because of the measures we are taking and there can be no taking the foot of the accelerator.”
I fully expect we will see this very argument being made “by the other side” within the next year or so.
Anything that has to be agreed by 195 politicians will be useless, and wrong, just by the laws of human behaviour
Dear Humans Climate’s not your fault
Agreed but they will continue to constantly blame us all [especially if you are the “wrong” colour] for having the temerity to have been born and I am heartily sick of it.
If you go to the main IPCC website and look under “Reports” you will find that in the AR6 (Synthesis Report), under “Longer Report”, the main body of the report has been removed… All you get is “The file you are looking for cannot be found!!”
I’m guessing that was where this inconvenient morsel of sanity was to be sought and destroyed??
I noticed a recurring theme on Dews GB News when discussing the climate’; these days they seem to have two people in agreement on the climate, only disagreeing on how fast to drive off the cliff. But they both believe in MMCC. This is no different to the BBC. I sent them a bit of my mind calling them a disgrace etc.
They are captured. They are afraid.
So rain dances do work.
Here’s a challenge someone should pose to Professor Betts: Proove that you’re aware of all factors influencing the weather by accurately predicting the weather on next Saturday in a town of your chosing for the next 52 weeks.
Professor Betts doesn’t give a shit. If challenged, he quotes from the 100% political “Summary for Policy Makers”, even when this in flatly contradicted by the IPCC’s scientific findings.
The IPCC is a global warming activist group and nothing to do with science. They only look for human causes for global warming and ignore any inconvenient papers. They screech that everything must be peer reviewed while rushing to include convenient propaganda papers ahead of review. They include NGO propaganda as Donna LaFramboise showed in her book. And where else does a summary get published months before the report it summarises and when available shows all sorts of lies in the summary.
Remember that CO2 does not equal climate. It equals wealth. —–The countries who emit the most are the wealthiest for obvious reasons. China and India and other developing countries grow wealthier by using fossil fuels and therefore emitting more CO2.—-So remember the words of Edenhoffer of the IPCC who said “One has to free oneself from the illusion that climate policies are environmental policies anymore. We redistribute the worlds wealth by climate policy”.—-This is why Marxists like Miliband are so focussed on giving our money for the purposes of “Climate Justice”. They are globalists that believe in World Government where the wealth is spread out. —-Climate Change gives these people the ideal opportunity to indulge in this communism.
President Trump’s landslide win makes these zealots redundant. Nobody cares.
Weather is chaotic, climate is mathematically chaotic. Without any input from human’s, weather patterns and hence climate will change ie evolve without any attributable source other than where we are now is not where we’ve been before. Forcings can be identified but effects only attributable in the present as counter effects will then occur in the chaotic evolution eg sun gets hotter, more water evaporates and more clouds cause reduced warming might be a scenario.
If human input is then considered it will certainly change the evolution of the weather/climate system but how could one attribute a particular event or set of events or patterns to man made vs natural?
That assumes there is no catastropic event which breaks the system eg ateroid collision. Are the IPCC suggesting that man man made CO2 will cause a catastrophic break to the system? What?
How could a chaotic, evolved system be defined as a baseline against which human perturbations could be measured? The climate go forward baseline can’t be defined because it is chaotic. No matter how powerful a computer is used, the initial conditions can’t be defined precisely and calculated rounding errors will mean the calculated evolution will stray significantly from reality. That’s implicit in the definition of mathematical chaos.
Also change happens slowly and any evolving patterns can be mitigated as they start to embed. eg Sea level rise, build defences and new builds on higher ground. Don’t build on flood plains. Take advantage of changes both good and bad and don’t worry about their origin.
Build effective sustainable energy sources as technology evolves and natural resources eg hydrocarbons dwindle.
DON’T PANIC! And stop using climate to scare folk.
Only the Trump administration can stop this madness by throwing the Paris accord into the Seine. This climate cult scum needs to stop.