- “The people who backed Huw Edwards – from Andrew Marr to Emily Maitlis” – When allegations concerning Huw Edwards were first reported last summer several figures in the media industry came to his defence, including Edwards’s former BBC colleagues such as Andrew Marr and Emily Maitlis, writes Alex Farber in the Times.
- “BBC bosses’ ‘unforgivable’ handling of Huw Edwards scandal” – The BBC faces yet more damaging questions after another of its biggest stars was revealed to be a sex offender, reports the Mail.
- “The Huw Edwards cover up and why it proves the BBC is rotten to the core” – The idea that Brits should have to keep paying for this morally bankrupt broadcaster is a sick joke, says Dan Wootton on his Outspoken Substack.
- “Why the BBC is one of Britain’s greatest scandal magnets” – Huw Edwards is the latest in a long line of high-profile controversies at the Beeb, but will they ever learn from their mistakes? wonders Rosa Silverman in the Telegraph.
- “BBC Chairman accused of dismissing staff complaints of antisemitism” – “Jews don’t count” at the BBC, staff have warned as part of a complaint about “systemic antisemitism”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour face a brutal awakening about the realities of governing modern Britain” – The Government must address concerns over preferential group treatment, or risk more disorder on the streets, says Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
- “What did you expect? Britain’s protests reflect decades of elite failure” – On Substack, Matt Goodwin shares his thoughts on the latest atrocities in Britain – and the reaction to them.
- “Political violence must never be tolerated” – It takes an authoritarian mindset to choose violence over the ballot box, says Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
- “How censorship made Tommy Robinson” – The attempts to silence Tommy Robinson have only fuelled his grift, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Jenrick overtakes Badenoch as bookmaker’s favourite to become Tory leader” – William Hill says the odds on the former Immigration Minister winning the Tory leadership battle have narrowed following Lord Frost’s endorsement, according to the Telegraph.
- “Don’t ‘drive me’ to join Reform, Braverman tells Tory MPs” – Suella Braverman says she hopes she is not “driven out” of the Conservative Party by Tory MPs, insisting that she has no intention of defecting to Reform U.K., says the Telegraph.
- “Bank of England cuts interest rates for first time in four years” – Rachel Reeves has indicated she might still raise taxes after the Bank of England cut interest rates for the first time in four years and more than doubled its growth forecast, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rachel Reeves has just admitted the grotesque truth about her plans for Britain” – The Chancellor has given the game away. She will punish the prudent and successful to reward the feckless, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Hamas terror chief boasted of his freedom – hours later, he was dead” – The fear now is that the Hamas leader’s funeral could be the first of many, if his assassination triggers a wider war in the Middle East, write James Crisp and Akhtar Makoii in the Telegraph.
- “Israel has shown it can still hit back – and now the world can sleep safer” – Leaders in London and Washington don’t like Tel Aviv’s tactics. But Tehran’s losses are the West’s gain, says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
- “Giving up Ukrainian territories is ‘a very, very difficult’ question” – In an interview with Le Monde, Ukrainian President Zelensky discusses the possible outcome of the war and calls on China to put pressure on Russia to open the way to negotiations.
- “Biden hails ‘feat of diplomacy’ as U.S. journalist freed in biggest prisoner swap since Cold War” – The American journalist Evan Gershkovich has been freed by Russia as part of the largest East-West prisoner exchange since the Cold War, reports the Independent.
- “TV commentators silent on Olympics boxing gender row” – TV viewers were kept in the dark about the mounting Olympic gender row as a masculine Algerian fighter felled an Italian opponent with one ferocious punch, says the Telegraph.
- “IOC is betraying women in worst possible way” – Olympics organisers are putting female boxers at risk of extreme harm by allowing fighters with abnormally high testosterone levels to compete, writes Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
- “The simple way to protect women’s sport at the Olympics” – Someone with XY chromosomes who went through male puberty has no business competing in women’s sports, says Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “Female high school volleyball player, 17, is left paralysed with brain damage by trans opponent” – A female volleyball player, partially paralysed by a transgender opponent, has slammed the Olympics for letting two boxers who failed gender eligibility tests last year compete against women, reports the Mail.
- “England’s GPs vote to take industrial action” – For the first time in 60 years, family doctors have voted for collective action, writes Lucy Dunn in the Spectator.
- “The militant BMA is becoming an enemy of the people” – Calling on the NHS to lift the ban on puberty blockers will embolden trans extremists and put children at risk, warns Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
- “Sir Paul Marshall leads race to buy the Spectator” – Hedge fund magnate and GB News shareholder Sir Paul Marshall is close to securing a deal to buy the Spectator, says City A.M.
- “U.K. police special enquiry team to examine role of Washington Post chief in email deletions” – Following a tip-off from Gordon Brown, British police are investigating whether Washington Post CEO Will Lewis destroyed evidence while working at News International 13 years ago, reports the Guardian.
- “Labour and Conservative stalwarts in race for University of Oxford chancellor job” – Peter Mandelson and William Hague are both in the race to become the next chancellor of the University of Oxford, says the Mail.
- “Sending them back: the Horniman Museum and the restitution of its Benin bronzes” – In History Reclaimed, Mike Wells gives a critical review of a new book by Nick Merriman, the former Director of the Horniman Museum, who gave away its Benin bronzes.
- “Will the real Kamala Harris please stand up?” – Should Kamala Harris win in November, there will be no change. The same people in control now will remain in control, says Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
- “Media gaslighting about Kamala Harris nears totalitarian levels” – Ever since Kamala Harris became the Democrats’ Presidential nominee, we have been told to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears in favour of party propaganda, says Michael Shellenberger on his Public Substack.
- “Right-wing court shocks MAGA with brutal ruling” – On YouTube, the State Attorney for Palm Beach County reacts to Ron DeSantis’s “Stop Woke Act” being shut down by Florida’s conservative district court for violating the First Amendment.
- “Just Stop Oil Heathrow Airport protest fails – again” – Just Stop Oil protesters have been removed from Heathrow airport following another failed protest, reports the Mail.
- “Hillary Clinton-run group helps fund Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion” – U.S. financial disclosures reveal that Just Stop Oil’s stunts are partly funded by a campaign organisation run by Hillary Clinton, reports the Telegraph.
- “Young eco-catastrophists are clueless about real nature” – Childhoods are no longer being spent outdoors, but lost in an online world that spreads climate doom, says Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
- “Campaigners call on Labour to end foxhunting ‘loophole’” – Anti-fox hunting activists have urged the Government to shut down a so-called loophole which they say facilitates the sport to take place on Ministry of Defence land, reports GB News.
- “The inconvenient truth about ‘rewilding’” – Why is the cost of rewilding being dumped on new housing? asks Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “German start-up brings cryonics to Europe” – Hoping to have your body deep-frozen and reanimated at some distant point in the future? A fleet of repurposed ambulances is on standby to oblige, reports William Hunter in the Mail.
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Conflicts around the world created by the US so countries have to buy expensive US LPG, LNG and weapons.
Cui bono.
Follow the money.
Apparently the UK could buy Iraq/Iran oil at 50 dollars a barrel – instead of the current 100 dollars a barrel bought from India who buy it from er, Russia.
USA gets some for free by looting Syria.
And massive profits by selling their LPG to the EU – (but just think of all the wonderful CO2 emitted).
If only Putin hadn’t blown up his own pipeline.
For the gormless out there the last sentence is sarcasm.
Your barking up the wrong tree. We get 50% of our gas from the North Sea and most of the rest from Norway, and the remainder from the USA. America has much lower energy prices than ours because of fracking. We have astronomically high prices because of The Climate Change Act and the pursuit of Net Zero. If you want to understand high prices you must look to our pandering to the UN and it’s Sustainable Development policies that seek to lower the standard of living of the prosperous west because they think our lifestyles are “unsustainable”. The USA mostly resists that but under the Democrats of Obama Biden and Harris if she wins in November, the USA will be drawn more into this Eco Socialism.
Conflicts around the world started by the US have pushed energy prices through the roof for many countries, I’m not just talking about the UK.
You are preaching to the converted when it comes to the bogus climate change debacle and the costs involved.
Please give examples? What conflicts, and were they necessary or not?———Since 2008 when Miliband gave us the Climate Change Act electricity prices have risen 300%. This is due to combination of massive subsidy to renewables paid for on consumers bills and also the link between gas prices and electricity prices since a lot of electricity is produced using gas.
——If I were you I would not give this current eco socialist Labour Government pandering to UN/WEF agenda’s around climate an easy ride by blaming America for the current state of affairs. Our absurd Energy Policies are what are mostly to blame for our current predicament.
List of U.S. attempts to overthrow governments (* indicates success) since 1949:
China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *
https://davidswanson.org/warlist/
Yeah well what about British oil and gas (onshore and offshore) and British coal and British nuclear power? Yeah, let’s blame the Russians. Nothing to do with stupid/evil policy choices going back decades.
Upwards of 300 years of coal beneath our feet, plus shale gas, plus oil and gas and nuclear.
As a minimum we should be fuel independent.
It’s simply tragic
Weren’t you, me and tof just talking about this the other week? Ha! Never in a month of Sundays will the people of the North East adhere to such absolute codswallop. These Woketards can haddaway an’ shite! And I don’t know how they’re able to bring sexism into it as ”pet” is very much a unisex word. Honestly, do these people have anything between their lugs or just bubble and squeak?
”Geordies have slammed Newcastle University for urging researchers to bid ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet’ after bosses deemed the slang term sexist.
Diversity chiefs labelled the Tyneside lingo ‘patronising’ in an equality and inclusion toolkit issued to researchers.
Their seven-page guide instructs readers to ‘avoid… terms, such as girls, pet, or ladies’ and asks that groups are referred to as ‘friends or colleagues’ instead.
The advice appears in a section named ‘Talking about Gender‘ which says: ‘Sexism can often be subtle in conversations, and we can all be guilty of it without realising.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13761925/Fury-Newcastle-University-urges-staff-drop-Geordie-nickname-pet-word-bossy-theyre-sexist-locals-slamming-call-totally-stupid.html
“And I don’t know how they’re able to bring sexism into it as ”pet” is very much a unisex word.”
I lived in Sunderland for four years. Most of my friends at the time were Mackems, lads and lasses and yes “pet” was unisex. What the numpties fail to understand was that the use of the term “pet” also carried connotations of warmth and friedliness which is and always will be way beyond the cold formalities of friend / colleague. In the North West the equivalent to “pet” would be “love” but it is not quite as warm as “pet.”
“These Woketards can haddaway an’ shite!”
Exactly Mogs. Destroy the language and the culture goes with it.
I cannot compete with the poetry of “haddaway an’ shite!” so firk off will have to do.
And the relevance of this to energy pricing is? Maybe in the wrong thread here…
Thanks Hardliner. And in which thread should the topic go?
Yes …. but then the Globalists/Americans/EU wouldn’t be able to control us.
I hear on TV news dumb socialists supporting Net Zero absurdity saying “we must do this as we have to avert the climate crisis” and other such utter garbage. We must not do this at all as long as the rest of the world is mostly not doing it, and we certainly should not be doing it at brake neck speed by 2030, which apart from being utterly stupid is absolutely IMPOSSIBE. ——For a start there are about 25 million gas boilers in the UK. In 5 and a quarte years from now anyone who thinks we can replace all of those with heat pumps needs certified, and the first person in the mental ward should be Miliband.
Aren’t they guessing? After all, the oil prices seem to be lower than the recent peak values. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/brent-crude-oil
But we do not get our gas from Russia. That only accounted for 3% of our gas. 50% comes from our own reserves in the North Sea, which our silly governments want to stop, and the majority of the rest comes from Norway and then the USA.
——I suspect that what will happen with this Labour Eco Fundamentalist Government is that all of the renewable subsidies that have been in the past added to our electric bills will now be added to gas bills instead so as to encourage us away from gas and coerce us into getting heat pumps. This is going to make gas prices very high and people very cold, especially the poorest and pensioners stripped of their winter fuel allowance. ——It is a bare face lie that Labour tell when they say they will make energy prices lower, and another bare faced lie when they say renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels.
Money talks. Here are the tariff rates at my place now in p/kWh units:
Night rate electric: 20.70
Day rate electric: 30.29
Gas: 6.95
The net effect of that is that gas is a lot less expensive for heating (even using things that are less efficient), notwithstanding the marketing text that the firm issues, in favour of environmentally friendly sources. Years ago, night rate electric was roughly 1/3 of the day rate, so it’s that one that has been jacked up so far.
Add to that the fact that we do not have enough generating capacity to meet our current needs let alone an increase in electricity demand. And MiliTwat will not be delivering any additional unreliable energy generation beyond what is already in progress because the lead times will see out the next 5 years.
Watch out for “variable pricing” via your smart meter if you have one, which will seek to charge more based on demand and if the wind isn’t blowing. It won’t be just day or night time rates. It will be rates depending on availability of electricity as we move away from reliable sources like coal and gas. Or as the head of the National Grid (Steve Holiday) said a few years ago “We are going to have to get used to using electricity as and when it is available”——-He meant if it happens to be windy.
I think we get a large percentage of LNG from the USA. If Trump fails then Harris/Biden plan to ban all fracking which is where most or all of our gas is coming from.
We need to be less NIMBY and get on with our own fracking.
Why? Net Zero.
We are not paying for energy being produced and consumed, we are paying for intermittency. That means we are paying for energy that is not being produced or cannot be used.
Plenty of errors. As pointed out below, the UK uses very little Russian gas. Also omitted is the fact that gas prices were on the rise months before the special operation to liberate the 4 eastern oblasts began. As countries awoke from Covid, demand for gas shot up as it was desperately needed to keep the grids going in the face of a couple of years more unreliable generation added, reliable generation retired and the industry having slowed down production in the face of reduced demand and anti-industry ecofascism. It is of course true that prices will keep slowly edging up because the more unreliable generation you add to your grid the more expensive it becomes, as well as closing your own reliable generation and relying on other countries to supply at times of high demand when unit prices are high. This will continue for at least a decade.