- “State of the Race: Bombshell poll, Reform Surges, 15 days to go” – On his Substack page, Matt Goodwin reports on a stunning poll from his company People Polling for GB News of 1,228 British adults, which puts Labour on 35%, Reform on 24%, Conservatives on 15%, Liberal Democrats on 12%, Greens on 8% and SNP on 3%.
- “Nigel Farage set to win Clacton with ‘biggest swing in modern history’” – The Times reports on a Survation poll that puts the Reform U.K. leader on course for 42% of the vote in the Essex race.
- “Labour on course for biggest landslide in 100 years” – Reform is further eroding Conservative support with Nigel Farage’s party predicted to pick up five seats and the Tories falling to 108, according to a YouGov poll, the Times reports.
- “Britain is about to pass the point of no return” – Labour will have free rein to unleash a technocratic, socialist redistribution of wealth, and to install a Brownite constitution from hell, laments the Telegraph‘s Sherelle Jacobs.
- “Reform turning a crisis into a catastrophe for Sunak” – The polls appear to show there is little the Prime Minister can do to turn the tide, says the Times‘s Chris Smyth.
- “Daniel Hannan: Why telling voters to ‘stop the landslide’ won’t work” – We limp, not blindly, but hardly enthusiastically either, towards the inevitability of a Starmer landslide, already aware that we will regret it – it doesn’t get much more British, says Daniel Hannan on ConservativeHome.
- “Boris Johnson can’t save the Tories from the coming wipeout” – Despite what you may have heard, Boris Johnson neither was asked nor offered to campaign for the Tories, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “The two-party system is dying – and this vote may kill it” – Britain is already voting as if it has proportional representation, but the broken first-past-the-post system is delivering Soviet-style majorities, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Sunak to lose seat in Tory wipeout, major poll predicts” – A survey for the Telegraph predicts a Tory wipeout with Rishi Sunak, James Cleverly, Grant Shapps and Penny Mordaunt failing to make it among just 53 survivors. Note that the survey projects national trends onto constituencies rather than looking at local dynamics such as tactical voting.
- “Kemi Badenoch is the future of the Tory party – no one else survives” – In the same Telegraph survey the Business Secretary emerges as a leading figure on Right to take up the reins.
- “What’s the real reason Jim Ratcliffe is backing Starmer?” – Ross Clark in the Spectator smells opportunism in the changing loyalty of the Brexiteer Tory donor who owns one of Britain’s six oil refineries.
- “It shouldn’t be surprising that a Muslim son of immigrants is funding Reform” – Many second generation immigrants hate open borders as much as anyone, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Why Starmer will struggle to deliver growth” – Unless it changes tack, Labour is likely to find its core task defeated by Treasury sclerosis and entrenched interests, says Juliet Samuel in the Times.
- “Starmer Falsely Claims He Worked in The Police Force In Northern Ireland” – In Keir Starmer’s latest election broadcast featuring footballer Gary Neville the Labour leader falsely claims to have “worked in the Police Force in Northern Ireland”, says Guido Fawkes. In fact he was a part-time human rights adviser to an independent policing board.
- “Watch: Vote for my Tory Cabinet minister friend, says Sir Bob Geldof” – Meanwhile, Live Aid’s Bob Geldof endorses Andrew Mitchell.
- “Second Tory candidate investigated over alleged bet on election date” – Laura Saunders is reported to be under investigation by the Gambling Commission, the Telegraph reports.
- “PM’s police bodyguard arrested over ‘bet on election date’” – Seems they were all at it.
- “We’re set to be the illegal immigrant capital of Europe” – Labour will not stop the boats; it’ll make the UK the number one destination for illegal immigrants, says Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
- “The silence of the Remainers” – Europe’s populist surge has shattered the simplistic, snobbish worldview of Britain’s pro-EU elite, says Jacob Phillips in Spiked.
- “France’s left-wing coalition would unleash migrant chaos on Britain” – In the Spectator, Gavin Mortimer sets out the extreme pro-immigration agenda of France’s ascendant Left.
- “France is about to bring the EU to the brink of collapse” – The election that Macron has called could lead to a financial crisis and a showdown with Brussels that would dash Labour’s European hopes, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “House Probes NewsGuard’s ‘Fact-checking’ Operations, Citing Federal Funding” – Rep. James Comer, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, last week launched an investigation into the fact-checking firm to examine the impact of NewsGuard on protected First Amendment speech, reports Children’s Health Defence. Comer’s letter specifically draws attention to a Daily Sceptic article.
- “Origins of Covid: A Historic Senate Showdown” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, John Leake reports on the latest Senate Homeland Security Committee’s hearing on Covid origins, where Dr. Stephen Quay and Dr. Richard Ebright press home the culpability of the U.S. as well as China.
- “Breaking Publication: COVID-19 Vaccines: A Risk Factor for Cerebral Thrombotic Syndromes” – Dr. Peter McCullough reports on his team’s new paper that looks at official safety monitoring data and finds Covid vaccines hundreds of times more likely to cause strokes than the vaccines for flu and other diseases.
- “A potential association between COVID-19 vaccination and development of Alzheimer’s disease” – A new study from Korea finds a potential link between Covid vaccines and Alzheimer’s disease.
- “Just Stop Oil sprays Stonehenge with orange paint” – In their latest bout of criminal damage, Just Stop Oil protesters have sprayed Stonehenge with orange paint as members of the public try to drag them away, reports the Mail.
- “Professor McKitrick: Climate Story Is A Good Way of Expanding Government Power” – Interviewed by Hannes Sarv for Freedom Research, Professor Ross McKitrick says there may be both financial and political incentives behind the interests that are driving the talk of a climate catastrophe.
- “Is this the end for DEI?” – ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ hiring policies are unprofitable, patronising and regressive and some companies are finding a better way, says Andrew Doyle on Substack.
- “The voting conundrum for socially conservative Christians like me” – In Christian Today, Julian Mann worries about the impact of a Labour Government’s draconian woke agenda on Christians’ freedom of speech and religion.
- “Why won’t this museum let women see its Igbo mask?” – Cambridge’s Pitt Rivers museum is pursuing a regressive policy described as ‘cultural safety’ which means that an African mask cannot be seen by women, writes David Abulafia in the Spectator.
- “Why are the police hounding Maya Forstater?” – The gender critical hero is facing a criminal investigation for standing up for women’s dignity, says Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “Review of ‘Debunking the climate change hoax’” – On Rumble, watch Ivor Cummins look in depth at Doug Brodie’s recent climate paper.
- “Disney execs working on the new Star Wars flop” – Darren Grimes posts on X documentary footage of Kathleen Kennedy’s creative process in action.
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Has anyone considered the very real possibility that Ed Milliband is ill? that he has some form of clinical insanity? it would go a long way to understanding the sheer absurd lengths to which he is going in order to stop us using fossil fuels. Why pour cement down a fracking well to block it up, to prevent it ever being used? when the law has put in place sufficient restrictions for it ever taking place in this parliament and without a reversing of the law. He is surely doing the equivalent of a Crusader smashing, destroying and removal of all buildings effigys, and people who practised a different religion in order to wipe any chance of it continuing in the future.
I do believe he needs to be examined as he is clearly obsessed in a very dangerous way and is as a result a danger to humanity.
Concreting over wells is simply Scorched Earth Policy and is actually preposterous. We are governed by ideologues that will stop at nothing to get their own way and as a result we now have electricity prices 3-4 times higher than in the USA, where they continue to use fossil fuels for the benefit of the citizens, and it is only going to get worse in the UK and all countries pandering to the UN/WEF pretend to save the planet eco socialist fraud.
He’s concreting the fracking wells to prevent any future government reversing his decisions. To restart a dormant well you need a lot less investment than drilling a new one – so at a stroke he has made any future decision to frack for gas more expensive than it need be.
However, it is quite possible to drill new wells and the gas will still be there for future generations when the lunacy abates. The current government’s attempt to constrain future governments decisions will fail.
If he’s I’ll then the whole world’s political establishment is. Reference the earlier article on the impact of the sun, you’d have thought any uncorrupted politician would suggest checking it out before wasting £trillions on stuff of doubtful utility.
Mental condition: narcissism, psychopath.
I think the only solution is a straight jacket and a padded cell
Rope is cheaper, and hempen rope is “sustainable”.
Yes, i’ve thought that for some time
It costs money to do that and concrete is not CO2 friendly. This is about trashing capitalism – the goal of the green movement since communism failed.
Wind is cheaper than gas —–TRUE. As a fuel wind is free and gas is not free. You need to bring it from the ground and that costs money. But harnessing the wind is not free, and the wind needs the gas powered plants ticking over waiting for the wind to stop, which is often and many times unexpectedly, often at times of greatest need etc. So anyone who says “wind is cheaper than gas” is deliberately only telling you part of a story. Then we have the situation where the more wind you have the less reliable the grid, the more backup you need all costing more and more money, and as we reach beyond the reserve margin, storage will be required to avoid blackouts. This storage which is not yet developed except pumped hydro is very expensive, often costing 10 to 20 times more than the actual energy it is supposed to be backing up. As a result we have spiralling costs, destruction of the economy that depends on low energy costs, and a country totally covered in thousands of turbines, solar panels and thousands of new pylons to take the renewable energy to the grid. This is total absurdity. There is no need for this mad rush to Net Zero in such a short time frame, all because of the madness of the global warming groupthink politics which is lying to the UK citizens that there is a climate crisis and that we in this country must be world leaders in fixing it.———-Then after all of this nonsense about wind being free or cheaper than gas, our government then ties the price of wind to the price of gas so that we never get any benefit from the “FREE WIND”. —-It is outrageous eco politics that is taking people for a ride, and I would go so far as to say it is the greatest pseudo-scientific fraud ever perpetrated.
“Wind is cheaper than gas” is an utterly meaningless statement, intended to mislead.
Indeed.
No resource has any value in its natural state. The value comes when it is put to beneficial use, and its cost is the capital required to do so. If the cost input exceeds the output value, then that is a loss. The cost input to provide electricity from wind and solar exceeds the value of output, because of the intermittency cost – the indirect cost of alternative generation to provide power when wind/solar cannot, and to stabilise the grid.
And… a resource does not exist until Mankind invents it by finding a beneficial use for it. Iron ore, oil, coal were not “resources” in the Stone Age, for example.
The Earth has no resources, only Mankind has resources.
All pretty obvious- though you have put it very succinctly. Sadly I suspect many don’t grasp it, such is the degree of economic illiteracy. Should be compulsory in every school.
And it’s used that way constantly by the MSM. You only have to read the comments sections on any MSM article on energy costs, to see 90% of people believe wind turbines and solar are ‘free / low cost’… I’d say less than 10% of posters actually understand the real cost, once intermittency and subsidies are taken into account. Whether most people think the electricity is simply waiting for them, behind their sockets or something, I don’t know. In a way it’s perhaps a reflection of the historic level of reliability of the British national grid has enjoyed, which Millibrain is slowly destroying
Yes – see my reply to JXB.
Yes but because it is actually true that the wind is cheaper than gas as a FUEL, it allows the charlatans to mislead the public.
“Worker mobility is an issue rarely considered by politicians, who often view themselves as citizens of anywhere…”
…Likewise in a corporate past life, the new C.E.O. with family based on another continent from a previous C.O.O. position, opting to boost the share price (and annual bonus) by moving the whole caboodle on a whim from one side of a country to the other, in order to access “a world-leading corporate ecosystem.”
No evidence-base whatsoever cited for putting thousands of working and family lives through the mangle and splashing a corporate billion on a vanity project.
As for Kommissar Miliband, someone please send for straightjacket, largactil and 50 ml syringe.
We’re a smallish firm – about 60 people. I guess some of them are easily fungible but most are not. If your people are not important to your business then you might not have the right people. When we moved offices we were at pains to ensure it was very near the old one so as not to discombobulate the staff.
Could he not have had the head band of the hat adjusted for him? Or does he believe he has a brain the size of a planet? Or perhaps some PR person was having a laugh?
Command & control economy because we are back to Marxist-Socialist Labour revealing its true colours.
Jobs are a cost. If more jobs are being created than currently required to produce the same or lower output, this is a loss to the economy = makes us poorer.
If these jobs are created by subsidies using taxpayer cash = reduces economic activity = makes us all poorer.
It is why free market capitalism regulated by supply, demand, prices, innovation and technological advance together with consumer choices = prosperity. Exhibit A: Industrial Revolution. For the alternative: USSR.
Indeed we are. But the Conservatives are as committed to net zero as Labour. In fact, THE CONSERVATIVES SET THE NET ZERO BY 2050 TARGET. Not Labour.
Labour pushed through the Climate Change Act, but with the target of an 80% reduction. The Conservatives upped the target to 100%, or net zero.
The Conservatives remain committed to the 2050 net zero target. It is still their official party policy. Don’t be fooled by occasional sceptical comments from them that fall short of committing to a change in policy.
Is there a single ‘green’ technology that has proved beneficial? Answers on a postage stamp.
Great – let’s get all the workers to sell their houses to move to the jobs and be made poorer by the costs of moving, of buying and selling a house and oh yes, have thousands of pounds stolen from you by the state in a tax known as stamp duty.
And a good day for this article as our ignorant scrounger of a PM Two Tier No Idea Kier is spouting lies at the energy security jamboree in London before he goes off to a lovefest with global fascist Usually Fond Of Lying. If we had a functional opposition we could expect a rebuff of all of his lies but not with Olukemi Adegoke or of course the great Messiah who is too busy moving his company into the centre-left Uniparty ground as he proposes all the immigrants can stay under an amnesty.
Does anyone else worry that Milliband and Labour are deliberately trashing the country? It is the sort of thing I heard Marxists fanntasizing about when I was back at university a couple of years ago.
Worry? That’s clearly what they are doing imo… question is, how can we stop and reverse it?
Never forget that Mad Miliband is fully supported by the Mad Monarch of Windsor.