- “Reform U.K.’s offices targeted in anti-racism demonstrations” – Reform U.K.’s central London offices were targeted by activists as part of anti-racism protests on Saturday, with the organiser from Left-wing pressure group Stand Up to Racism, Samira Ali, trying to pin the blame for the riots on Farage, saying he is “fanning the flames of bigotry and Islamophobia”, reports the Telegraph.
- “You will be refused bail even if you only watched riots from the sidelines, judge warns” – Whether “active participant” or “curious observer”, anybody involved in disorder will be locked up, a Belfast just has said as he jailed an 18 year-old who went “to have a look” and left when petrol bombs were thrown, according to the Telegraph.
- “Two-tier policing is not a myth” – Identity politics is at the heart of modern British policing, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Angela Rayner scraps plans to limit social housing applications to long-term British residents” – Angela Rayner has dropped plans by Michael Gove to introduce a “U.K. connection test” to limit social housing to those resident for at least 10 years, the Telegraph reports.
- “The riots ending is proof hard-line policing works. So why do the elites despise it?” – The great discovery of the past few days has been this, says Peter Hitchens in the Mail: if police are visible, if wrongdoers are swiftly arrested, rapidly charged, prosecuted and quickly and frighteningly punished, you get a grip on crime. So why are they so soft the rest of the time?
- “Starmer’s popularity slumps after criticism of riots response” – New polling for the Telegraph shows the PM’s approval ratings have plummeted in the fortnight since far-Right unrest broke out (though he’s still net positive, and most people’s complaint was that he wasn’t hardline enough).
- “Get ready for the crackdown” – From the return of the Counter Disinformation Unit to the start of live facial recognition, Big Brother Watch’s Silkie Carlo joins UnHerd to discuss the U.K. crackdown.
- “The Machiavellian cause of Britain’s disorder” – The country is ruled by weak and effete foxes, says N.S. Lyons in UnHerd.
- “Why we must fight for the right to criticise Islam” – A Government clampdown on ‘Islamophobia’ would inflame social tensions, not dampen them, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Thwarted attack on Taylor Swift concert reveals youth jihadi problem” – In UnHerd, Ralph Schoellhammer says the three migrant-Muslim background youth who tried to blow up a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna this week are emblematic of a wider Islamist problem among European young people.
- “Lessons from the Taylor Swift terror plot” – There is no room for complacency in the face of the Islamist threat, says Ian Acheson in Spiked.
- “Schools to wage war on ‘putrid’ fake news in anti-extremism crackdown” – Children will be taught how to spot “extremist” content and “fake news” online in a “revamp” of the curriculum following the riots, according to the Telegraph. And you thought schools were already woke madrasas…
- “Advertisers axe corporate responsibility scheme after lawsuit from Musk’s X” – The World Federation of Advertisers told members on Thursday that it would shut down the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (Garm) following legal attacks from X, the Guardian reports.
- “Biomass power station produced four times emissions of U.K. coal plant, says report” – The Drax biomass power station received £22 billion in subsidies despite being the U.K.’s largest emitter in 2023, reports the Guardian.
- “Labour abandons Tory pledge not to build solar farms on food-growing fields” – Planning rules introduced to block the construction of new solar farms on food-producing land will be scrapped by Angela Rayner under Labour’s Net Zero drive, reports the Telegraph.
- “What The Met Office Did Not Tell You About Extreme Temperatures” – Yes, there are more hot days, but there are also fewer cold days, and no overall trend in “extreme” temperatures, whatever the Met Office may tell you, says Paul Homewood in WUWT.
- “Spare a thought for slave labour building solar panels” – Ed Miliband’s plan to plaster the countryside with solar panels is likely to create more jobs for Uyghur slaves in China than blue collar workers in Britain, says Ross Clark in the Mail.
- “WEF: Climate Change Causes Pakistani Men to Beat up Their Wives” – According to the World Economic Forum, the problem is not that some Pakistani men are cowardly wife beaters, the problem is climate change, says Eric Worrall in WUWT.
- “How Red Emperor Xi Jinping cynically used Covid to create the ultimate Big Brother society: from ferocious lockdowns to apps that spied on citizens’ every move… and up to a million Muslims herded into concentration camps” – All dictators know there is no disaster that cannot be turned to their advantage, and Xi determined the Chinese response to Covid would be led by politics, not science, says Michael Sheridan in the Mail.
- “Premiership players come forward with heart concerns after Ben Youngs’s collapse during training” – The Telegraph reports that Ben Youngs, who recently underwent heart surgery after collapsing, has revealed other players in the Premiership have contacted him having been through similar procedures. Heart conditions among players are “not uncommon”, he says. Well, not anymore…
- “Kamala Harris and the Election of Laughter and Forgetting” – America now has a new Democratic nominee who, until three weeks ago, was widely acknowledged as a political lightweight, a poor manager and the author of incomprehensible word salads, but you won’t find that anywhere in the liberal media now, says Eli Lake in the Free Press.
- “Israel’s school strike has triggered an information war” – Israel now has a dilemma, says Dr. Limor Simhony Philpott in the Spectator. If it stops targeting terrorists that hide behind civilians in Gaza, it will not be able to fight Hamas.
- “Imane Khelif files legal complaint for cyber harassment after ‘digital lynching’” – Imane Khelif, the Olympic gold medal-winning boxer at the heart of a gender eligibility storm, has filed a legal case against “misogynistic, racist and sexist” cyber bullying, claiming ‘she’ has been the victim of a “digital lynching”, says the Telegraph.
- “French Left celebrates gender-row boxer’s victory as defeat of ‘fascism’” – French Left-wing leaders have hailed Imane Khelif, saying they were enjoying drinking “fascist tears” over the controversial Olympic triumph, reports the Telegraph.
- “NHS staff told to ask men if they are pregnant before X-rays” – NHS X-ray operators have been told to ask men if they are pregnant before conducting scans, the Telegraph reports.
- “‘I am not a monster.’ Strictly star Graziano hits back” – Graziano Di Prima tells the Mail that Zara McDermott’s allegations may relate to an accidental blow after he kicked floor “in frustration” that he apologised for at the time.
- “Feel free to insult me!” – Elon Musk posts a video on X of Rowan Atkinson from 2012 explaining why U.K. law urgently needed to be reformed to protect freedom of speech by decriminalising “insults” – a proposal that Keir Starmer as Director of Public Prosecutions backed at the time. It was too little, too late, of course, as the Great Awokening took hold and dissolved the Left’s commitment to free speech; but Atkinson’s speech has certainly aged well.
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€768 billion for energy subsidies divided by 500 million people is just over €1,500 per person.
For a family of 4 that’s €6,000.
One way or another we’re paying for it. If we paid it directly through our consumption, it would all go to the cost of the energy. But if it’s done through subsidies, by governments, then there is all layers of bureaucracy to pay for, plus the corruption along the way.
And then people have the balls to say that free market capitalism is failing. It isn’t failing, it’s’ being sabotaged and destroyed.
There has not been a “free market” in energy for some time. Once we signed the Climate Change Act in 2008 (Miliband), government started to interfere in energy. We started to build and subsidise wind and sun and put environmental regulations on coal and gas so as to make those fossil fuels more expensive. They picked winners and losers. The wind and the sun were the winners and coal and gas were the losers. As a result energy prices were rising 10-15% year on year. So long before the Ukraine situation we were seeing prices rising year after year and the Ukraine war has actually let government off the hook, because people seem to have forgotten all that pretend to save the planet stuff that went on before the Ukraine war and they mostly only can see the current situation where the war is deemed to be responsible for all of it. We used to have a Department of Energy. But after 2008 it became the Department of Energy and Climate Change, where energy policy was to be dictated by what is assumed to be true about, or more to the point what governments pronounced was true about climate. “Official Science” rather than “Science”
I can’t see any good news tbh. Better to have an acute crisis now to expose the folly and evil of our energy policies.
Where are you getting gas prices from?
Looking at https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/natural-gas and elsewhere it’s clear that prices right now are well below averages over the past 10 years.
Yes, those are local natural gas prices in the US. Natural gas prices vary greatly around the world, because unless there’s a pipeline it’s an awkward and expensive commodity to transport.
Ah yes, pipelines.
That’s US natural gas prices. EU natural gas prices are here. But you don’t have to take my word for it. Writing in Bloomberg today, Javier Blas notes that “gas prices are down from their peak, but still elevated” and “European companies face a long-term loss of competitiveness”.
“Net Zero” demands that their competitiveness be destroyed.
I’m a gas trader and April TTF is at 42 EUR./MWh… that is 2-3 times higher than over the past 10 years.
Don’t you just love the insane Net Zero.
“As of December, industrial gas demand is about 25% below the 2013–2019 average.”
That’s a lot of people out of work.
To think we have all that natural gas, coal and oil beneath our feet and under the sea around us and we aren’t using it; all the while we’re impoverishing ourselves. It’s akin to a wealthy old man locking himself up in his home and starving himself to death. Or rather being locked up in our homes by a moronic, inhumane regime, gripped by an idée fixe. Hmm… where have I seen that happen lately?!
Correct——–Anti Human, Anti Capitalist policies from the school of No human impact on the planet whatsoever.
I thought Britain had one of its coldest Winters? But it does illustrate the point, there is no ‘The Earth’s Climate’ there are numerous zones which vary across the Planet’s surface.
The claim of ‘climate change’ that all climate zones will change in the same way on the same day is bogus… ditto ‘The Earth’s Temperature’.
The earth ofcourse does not have a temperature. All temperature is local. You can record a temperature anywhere you put a thermometer. But this idea that you can add all these temperatures up to conjure up some number that we call “global average temperature” is FALSE. There is no such thing as a global temperature. And in the world of climate change that is not what they do anyway. They use anomalies by comparing temperatures to a 30 year period and how temperatures deviate from that . Ofcourse if you chose a different 30 year period then your result would be entirely different.
By the way the European spending frenzy bid up prices to the extent that poor countries (eg Pakistan) could not afford LNG. In other words printing euros or pounds simply meant the crisis was palmed off onto poor brown people… guess they are used to being poor, so that’s ok. Meanwhile, let’s talk about equity and “fairness”…
And STILL the Eco Nutters in the Establishment/Government refuse to exploit our oil, gas and coal reserves.
I wonder when “our” Government will tell us WE have a duty to pay for Ukraine to be reconstructed?
“The winter of 2022/23 was one of the warmest in recorded history, dramatically reducing the demand for natural gas. Had the temperature been normal, things could have gotten fairly dicey.”————-This is a very dodgy statement. —The difference between the alleged “warmest year in recorded history” and “normal” is only a matter of hundredths of a degree. This statement implies that people with gas central heating were able to detect the undetectable and as a result turned down their thermostats. That is absurd. People were well aware of the rising price of gas before the winter of 22/23 even started and had already been discussing how they could save money by turning things off or down and how they would wear extra jumpers etc. They did not turn their heating down because they felt warmer than in some previous years by a faction of a degree.