- “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!”
‘I love private property, and let me tell you something, if you care about your fucking country, read Ludwig Von Mises and the 6 lessons of the Austrian Economic School, motherfuckers!’ – @moicanoufc
— John Vallis (@johnkvallis) April 14, 2024
Best post-fight interview of all time??
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In a happier, simpler time, this would have been a rather boring academic discussion about temperature measurements.
Today it’s part of a battle to keep the state out of our lives and be able to live free.
Pretty nuts really.
This academic discussion is being controlled and as far as I can see, discussed less (ie detail) and sensationalised more! Very nuts!
Some time in the late 1980s or very early 1990, I was on a summer holiday on a farm on Bodmin Moor. By that time, it hadn’t rained in this area for 19 weeks in a row and some of the moor farms received water supplies from tankers. That was a generally hot summer, not the five weeks of no rain with mostly lovely temperatures we had this year.
Ha, my lasting memory of Bodmin is failing my first driving test there ( steep inclines + crap clutch control = going backwards when attempting a hill start. Not great when there’s a car behind you.
) but passing second time. I miss Cornwall though.
Real experts manage to do that after passing the test. I’ve recently encountered one (and waited patiently on the pavement until he had remembered which of all these pedals are supposed to be used in what order).
My brother’s instructor used to put my brother’s cigarettes, and later his wristwatch behind the back wheel. Made for really good hill starts!
The Met Office used the “break in the clouds” explanation to explain the Heathrow “record”, ignoring criticism that by amazing co-incidence three jets landed on an unusual approach (West to East) and promptly turned on to a taxiway and blew jet exhausts over the exact spot that the temperature sensor was positioned. These Mexplanations are getting tedious. In other news, some US “records” are held by sensors positioned a few feet from a municipal incinerator, or top of a black roof or in a car-park. They served their purpose, but that purpose was not as a measure of climate, and were then re-purposed to create bogus records to fill newspaper headlines and create climate scares.
More detail on the Heathrow 2015 “record”, including site map and aircraft movements: https://clivebest.com/blog/?p=6721
Don’t know if it’s of any use but by looking at Flightradar24 playback for that day, two RAF Typhoons were operating from that base around that time: Flights CHAOS011 (reg ZJ914) and CHAOS012 (reg ZK377). After a brief exercise over the North Sea, CHAOS011 landed just after 15:10. CHAOS012 landed 15 minutes later.
Of course, it must be sheer coincidence!
A weather event is not Climate.
A normal summer is not Climate Hell.
Putting an electronic measuring device at Heathrow on tarmac, near jet engines, behind a magnifying glass, next to a fire is not science. It is fraud. Move it 5 miles to the countryside and the temp was 36C.
The entire cult of warm and cult of the changing thingy is a fraud.
I had first-hand experience of such temperature anomalies during my working life. I knew this was bs as soon as it was published.
“The Met Office distorts data and lies” is not the surprise. That would be them telling the truth
My kitchen is usually a fairly cool room since it’s north facing. But strangely enough, after I’ve cooked a roast and I leave the oven door open, the kitchen quickly warms up a bit for a while and then fairly quickly the temperature drops again.
Must be climate change – so I’d better stop cooking roasts and start eating raw insects.
All these institutions that have been hollowed out by GangGreen termites must eventually realise that trust, once destroyed, take years of effort to reestablish. Witness also the Zro Covid, Lockdown and “Vaccine” enthusiasts.
So far as the “Climate” scam is concerned, it should be remembered that accurate records for a significant number of years is the exception rather than the rule, so suggesting that some weather event is “Unprecedented” is meaningless at best.
And that is without considering the multitude of proven cases where activist “Scientists” have had their smelly little thumbs on the ‘data’.
So we have Australia’ BOM admitting that under their regime, the temperatures of the past have been ‘discovered’ to be around 1°C colder than originally recorded.
Coming back to 2022 (and before), all the recent ‘unprecedented’ temperatures such as Coningsby are blatantly and deliberately fraudulent. If we had even a few honest politicians, all these MET chancers would have been sacked, long ago.
“Global Temperature” ??? “Warmest year” ???. etc etc . But what does any of that stuff really mean? Is there really such a thing as a “global temperature? If so, how is it calculated?—– But since most of the time we recorded temperatures using thermometers at individual places around the world at different times and mostly only in wealthy western countries (USA, Europe etc), how can we know what temperatures were where we did not have extensive coverage, which was really the case most of the time and over most of the globe? —-The answer is we cannot. Then we started to get temperature data from satellites around 1979, but how can you compare thermometer readings where coverage was sparse from let’s say 1925 or 1845 to satellite data that covers almost the whole planet? —You cannot.. —–So this idea that we have a “warmest year on record” or “warmest since records began” etc is misleading, especially when it is used to promote solutions to some problem that might not even exist, or that might exist but is not much of a problem. On TV I regularly see politicians and bureaucrats, eco activists and assorted “save the planet” people latch onto elements of the unreliable temperature record, like the one this summer where a temperature of 40C was apparently recorded. This ofcourse is what is known as “cherry picking” or “confirmation bias”, where someone only looks for things that support their preconceived idea and ignore everything that doesn’t.— The temperature record of earth is a jumble of data ,adjusted here and there for various anomalies, such as the build up of towns and cities around a site where temperatures may have been recorded for the last 100 years or more, and it is known that towns and cities are warmer, sometimes by several degrees. Out of all of this clutter of guesses, assumptions, missing data and different forms of data collection we are led to believe that some “scientists” know what year was warmer than some other year, often to accuracies of hundredths of a degree, when the thermometers used were never designed for such accuracies. It is also important to bear in mind that if something warms, it does not necessarily mean humans warmed it. To claim humans have warmed something requires evidence, and since there is nothing unusual about current temperatures that would simply be an assumption, and when the assumption is motivated by the desire for certain public policy’s then what we have is a “cautionary tale”.
So either the Met Office lie by sticking to their story, or lie by giving an unbelievable excuse why they didn’t quality check it thoroughly enough?
In 2015 I happened to be in North East New Zealand, when Cyclone Pam caused extreme damage and around 11 deaths in Vanuatu and some damage to other Pacific island states. The MET (using their extreme GangGreen technology) forecasted major problems next for NE New Zealand but, fortunately this turned out to be a nothingburger.
Although we are assured that The Science is absolutely Settled, it is, in reality, anything but. At that time, Richard Betts, now Head of Climate Impacts at the MET Hadley Centre, was presumably charged by his gaffer, Dame Julia Sligo, to occasionally go onto Climate Blogs and fly the GangGreen flag.
On the then excellent Bishop Hill Blog, I pointed out the inadequacies of their forecasts for Pam, the fact that the claimed wind speed was obviously inflated and that severe tropical cyclones were entirely ‘precedented’.
Betts replied pointing out that the attribution of extreme weather arising from burning “fossil” fuels was well established, quoting the UN’s IPCC Report. To which I pointed out that the IPCC’s latest report said nothing of the kind (as contaminated as it is by GangGreen assumptions) and that his quotation was lifted directly from the “Summary for Policymakers”, which is a 100% political document.
We then heard nothing more from Betts, who is obviously not any kind of scientist, just another GangGreen charlatan.