- “Starmer squirms as Question Time audience smirks and exposes his waffle” – The Conservatives believe Labour’s Achilles’ heel is tax, but for the public it seems that Keir Starmer’s vulnerability lies in his lack of truthfulness, says Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Sunak looked like a man who was running the country – until he wobbled” – Rishi was strong on the gambling allegations but spluttered his way through the National Service issue during the Question Time debate, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Sunak says plan ‘making a difference’ in Question Time election show” – Rishi Sunak vowed to kick out any Tories found to have broken rules over betting on the election date during a Question Time grilling, reports the Mail.
- “Tory ministers fear defeat beyond their ‘wildest nightmares’” – Senior ministers have said that polls showing the Conservative Party on course for its worst election result in a century are beyond “people’s wildest nightmares”, says the Times.
- “Farage predicts Tory wipeout will be even worse than polls suggest” – Nigel Farage claims that a Conservative wipeout at the General Election could be even worse than the polls suggests, reports the Telegraph.
- “Winston Churchill’s great nephew backs Reform” – The Duke of Marlborough hails his “friend” Nigel Farage as the only person who can stop the U.K. from being dragged into war, says the Telegraph.
- “Conservative campaigning director takes ‘leave of absence’ amid election gambling probe” – The Conservative Director of Campaigning has taken a “leave of absence” while he is investigated over an alleged bet on the date of the election, reports the Standard.
- “Huge spike in bets on day before Sunak announced election” – An unusual burst of bets on a July poll preceded Rishi Sunak’s announcement of the General Election, according to an analysis by the FT.
- “The truth is out: Labour will tax Britain to destruction” – Starmer could hardly have made it clearer: his party plans to target the productive to bribe dependent voters to stick with Labour, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “How Keir Starmer plans to rule through the courts” – The real theme of a Keir Starmer government will be the eclipse of elected politicians and the continued draining away of power to the courts, warns Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “James Cleverly ‘lacks appetite’ for Conservative Party leadership contest” – James Cleverly is not planning to stand in the Tory leadership race, as the field of candidates to replace Rishi Sunak begins to narrow, reports the Times.
- “Labour’s Islington North Chairman who ‘hid in bush when spotted campaigning for Corbyn’ quits” – A senior Labour figure has been forced to resign after hiding behind a hedge when caught campaigning for Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North, says the Express.
- “Budget rules mean private schools VAT raid won’t start before September 2025, Labour insiders claim” – Labour’s private school tax raid would not kick in until September 2025 at the earliest, party insiders have insisted after Rachel Reeves said it would be in her first Budget, according to the Telegraph.
- “Vote Priti, get Boris? The Tories in defeat are dreaming of better times” – Conservative candidates are grasping at stratagems for post-election revival, but even these are flaky, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Tory voters want to punish their party – and themselves” – Tory voters are set to elect an extreme Left-wing government to punish the current one for being too Left-wing, writes Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
- “Whoever you vote for, the Blob wins” – MPs are little more than human shields whose job is to take the blame for decisions made by bureaucrats, says Matt Ridley in the Spectator.
- “Social Democratic Party candidate Rod Liddle admits ‘deal’ with Reform” – On the latest Planet Normal podcast, columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson ask the SDP’s candidate for Middlesbrough Rod Liddle about his hopes for the election.
- “Eminem hit back in top 40 as Nigel Farage adopts it as election anthem” – Eminem’s ‘Without Me’ has made a reappearance in the U.K.’s top 40 more than 20 years after it was first released – after Nigel Farage made it his election theme tune, reports the Mail.
- “BBC’s Emma Barnett calls armed terrorists ‘men working for Hamas’” – BBC Radio 4 star Emma Barnett has sparked a backlash after calling a pair of armed terrorists who kidnapped an Israeli grandmother “men working for Hamas”, according to the Mail.
- “Lockdown sank both Trudeau and Sunak” – For both Sunak and Trudeau, the evaporation began after the pandemic lockdowns, writes Michael Coren in the Telegraph.
- “Pfizer CEO says there will be another holocaust if we don’t ‘follow the science’, compares Pfizer and elite establishment to the Jews” – On Substack, Rebekah Barnett reacts to Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla comparing the spread of COVID-19 disinformation to Nazi propaganda.
- “Covid fines were ‘bonkers’ and slate should be wiped clean, says David Davis” – Conservative MP Sir David Davies says that Covid fines were “bonkers” and that the slate should be wiped clean for people who were landed with criminal convictions as a result, according to the Telegraph.
- “Lockdown rule-breakers don’t deserve to be treated like criminals” – Of course there must be an amnesty for those convicted of breaking lockdown rules, says Isabelle Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “A&E waits causing ‘plane-load of deaths every week’” – Senior doctors say that long A&E waits are causing a “plane-load” of deaths each week, according to the Express & Star.
- “‘No bulls–t’ and Thatcherite thinking: the unstoppable rise of Kemi Badenoch” – The Business and Trade Secretary could be the next leader of the Conservatives – but can she unite a divided party? asks Mick Brown in the Telegraph.
- “Democracy in decay: Parliament’s Legion of the Damned” – In TCW, Andrew Cadman asks us to have faith and build a new democratic golden age for the future.
- “Russian hackers demand £40 million ransom from NHS” – Russian hackers who targeted NHS hospitals have demanded a £40 million ransom, reports the Telegraph.
- “Don’t outlaw ‘Islamophobia’” – If you look into the forces demanding that Britain outlaws Islamophobia, you find the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, writes Ed Husain in the Spectator.
- “Zelensky’s peace summit flop” – If Zelensky’s summit demonstrated anything, it’s that international support for a forever war is waning and the time for ugly compromise is beginning, says Owen Matthews in the Spectator.
- “U.K. and U.S. at loggerheads over Ukraine joining Nato” – The United States and Germany have derailed a European plan to grant Ukraine an “irreversible” path to Nato membership, reports the Telegraph.
- “British cows could be replaced with ‘double-muscled’ European breed to cut emissions” – A foreign cow breed known as the XL Bully, renowned for its muscular physique, could replace U.K. breeds under secret new plans, says the Express.
- “‘I’ll close the gender pay gap – once and for all’” – Rachel Reeves says that she will “close the gender pay gap once and for all” if she becomes Britain’s first female chancellor, according to the Telegraph. She’ll have to find it first.
- “The hidden perils of equity” – The stark divide between genuine inequality and that which the grievance industry claims to be fighting, is now at comedic proportions, says Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
- “Racism is an incoherent, stupid and dangerous concept” – The reason that racism is in such high demand and such low supply is that it is a fake concept, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “We’re all Soviets now” – A government with a permanent deficit and a bloated military. A bogus ideology pushed by elites. Senescent leaders. Sound familiar? asks Niall Ferguson in the Free Press.
- “Free speech doesn’t just need defending in NZ” – New Zealand’s Free Speech Union invites everyone who can attend to see Toby Young, founder and Director of FSU U.K., currently on tour down under. Join them at an event near you.
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There is no shortage of dishonest, low quality education on the topic of meteorology, including apparently deliberate confusion between climate and weather, even environmental issues. All of that is tangled with the concept of our ability to influence it, or what can be done to manage our capacity to adapt to it.
Some of us have been around long enough to remember some of the significant variations, such as the 1962/63 winter weather, the 1976 heatwave & drought and a few others, like the winter floods in 2014, and 2020. It seems to me that every year varies quite a lot when you are involved in the detail effects, in particular with gardening or farming.
And those who’ve been around long enough to remember significant weather ‘events’ are those that they need rid of.. pronto.. they stain the narrative.. Put that man on a drip asap… of midazolam/morphine..
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Dishonest seems charitable. Seems more like evil to me. Part of the war being waged on humanity.
You know something’s going on when now they’ve got to give every two-bit depression crossing the Atlantic a name.. Storm whatever.. anyone?
Indeed and it really pfizzes me off.
Chris – thank you. Keep at it – we’re with your every word.
Fwiw, there is defo a hunger for data and hard numbers – I posted a colloquial explanation and then some quite technical language below a bug eating piece in today’s Daily Telegraph, along with the link to the peer reviewed paper, to explain why chitin was toxic to humans, and it was astonishingly well received.
People are sick of being taken for idiots and realise that they have to buck up and study a bit if they are to triumph in intellectual debate against the morons in the predator class.
Ah.. the “predator class” so much more apt than the elite..
They’re more parasites than predators.
Hi AEC can you post a link to the article? It’s the devil to find anything in that rag…could be under business, sport, food …heaven only knows! Thanks.
If it’s getting warmer, when am I going to notice it?
I’ve been keeping a nature diary since 2011. There is no evidence of warming but some that it has got drier.
The cold spell last winter killed three beautiful shrubs in my garden that had thrived for at least 18 years.
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People are protesting, gluing themselves to roads, stopping traffic, climbing onto bridges etc etc, all based on what they see on TV News. You can put your TV on day after day and see claims made by all manner of people that extreme weather is increasing or there are more floods and droughts all they say is caused by humans. Every bit of extreme weather that occurs anywhere in the world is beamed directly to our TV screens and this might give the impression that everything in the world is getting worse, but that is all it is ———-An Impression? But is it true? The answer is NO. ——–There is no increase in the frequency or intensity of any type of weather event anywhere in the world. Virtually everything we hear on the issue of climate change is a smidgeon of the truth elevated into a planetary emergency for which no observational evidence exists.—- No politician dares to question any of this dogma, as the flak they get would be career ending. How extraordinary that asking questions about something that is only occurring in speculative climate models but not in the real world gets you booted out of wherever you are and never to be seen again. We have recently amended the Climate Change Act (2008 Miliband) to now go even further and we are apparently to be NET ZERO by 2050. No one knows how it can possibly be done, how many trillions it will cost or even if the technology required can even be invented. This is preposterous. The United Nations have manufactured a CRISIS and are now dictating the SOLUTION to it all based not on reality but on virtual reality from un-validated models and speculations motivated entirely by the Politics of “Sustainable Development, which means a world run by unaccountable technocrats who will control all of the worlds wealth and resources and every aspect of people’s lives, and not only do many of us fall for this, we actually march with banners to DEMAND it.
The trouble with net zero projections by 2050 is as you say; vague. There isn’t enough money, natural resources, industrial processing capability, infrastructure for supply, engineering or technical advancement, and the necessary man power to facilitate each function, etc. to achieve this target, anywhere in this world. This simple fact is missing from the driven agenda. In 2016 the UK committed by law, to achieve net zero by 2050. (34 years) and after 7 years, (20% of agenda time) nothing has been done, started, or developed. It is still a talking shop, producing fear, with nothing that will facilitate the net zero targets, we here on this site, understand the 8ollox of it, but there is a lot more who believe. As you say, the governments have moved from being for the benefits par se of the nation to the servants of the few. The rest of us are being sent to where ever we can do least damage. Surplus to requirement.
‘,,,we actually march with banners to DEMAND it.’
You touch very correctly on the key point here. People want it to be true. I recall the old House-of-Commons Speaker George Thomas commenting on how he recovered his religious faith after episodes of doubt: ‘I want to believe,’ he declared. So many people persist with the belief in disastrous man-made climate change despite the fact that they know it is rubbish. They want it to be true. Something has to be wrong to explain how they feel about their lives. This is something to get behind en masse. Therefore this is what is wrong. I don’t think anything can be done to stop it.
Sadly, similar to the UK met office, weather manipulation is denied. Geoengineering going on right in front of our eyes,every single day. Look up, you will see dozens of chem trails, a constant. Who is funding this. What government/company is being used to spray chemicals into the atmosphere. The UK now in its 4th month of gloom, little sunshine, windy every day. Humans, plants and animals all need sunshine. Without it our planet and its creatures would not exist.
Even Chat GPT is on board with climageddon. I asked it why the theory of AGW was wrong and it basically told me it wasn’t. There’s no hope for the sheeple masses.
I suspect that we are going to see increasingly extreme weather and a hostile climate but it has nothing to do with humanity. The powers that be have known for decades, possibly centuries, that we are due a magnetic pole reversal which occurs every 12,000 years with the passage of the galactic current sheet. As part of this process the magnetic field deteriorates rapidly and has been accelerating since 1997 when the magnetic poles also began migrating and look set to cross around Indonesia sometime in the next 10-20 years. This will expose the earth to space weather and solar storms which will have disastrous consequences in terms of extreme weather, lightning strikes, volcanic activity and earthquakes. The UK’s mobile phone emergency alert system has got nothing to do with war! The present grand solar maximum lasting the last 100 years has been ridden on by the elite as evidence of global warming as it fits nicely with increasing CO2 emissions, despite humans only being responsible for about 3% of global CO2 emissions (The rest are natural) and the fact that CO2 levels rise and fall in response to global temperatures not the other way round. The big fiery ball in the sky controls global temperatures and in turn CO2 levels which at 420 ppm are at historic lows and for the majority of earth’s history have been around 5,000 ppm. However, Mr Global has indoctrinated people into the anthropogenic climate change ruse in order to take total control over the population as the carrying capacity of the earth plummets over the middle part of the century. The absolute Zero UK Fires report done for the government is not about net zero but in fact details what will happen out of necessity as a result of this catastrophe. There is also evidence that this cycle culminates with a solar micronova which unlocks the crust from the mantle causing the earth to flip 90 degrees as the ice caps settle out on the equator. Humanity always survives these events but civilisations will not. Call it The Great Reset if you will. See more at Suspicious Observers on YouTube.
It’s about sensationalism, ideology and click-bait, leading to more jobs and money in the climate-change industry.