- “Fury as PM refuses to say whether he’d sign away Falklands or Gibraltar” – Sir Keir Starmer has provoked anger after refusing to say whether he would sign away the Falklands or Gibraltar, reports the Sun.
- “Starmer’s Chagos betrayal is unforgivable” – We will not survive in our increasingly dangerous world if we cannot act in our own self-interest, says Sam Bidwell in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s Chagos surrender shows we need a stronger China strategy” – The Starmer Government cares more for global elite opinion than it does for British interests, according to Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
- “Cabinet rebellion over Rachel Reeves’s cut to foreign aid budget” – Ministers and charities warn of damage that will be caused if the Chancellor cuts overseas aid, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband supports change to ‘cruel’ laws on assisted dying” – MPs will be given a historic vote on whether to legalise euthanasia within weeks, says the Times.
- “Lord Alli laid on hospitality for Labour 23 times in run-up to election” – Peer at centre of ‘freebies’ row hostedaides and shadow ministers at his £4m Soho townhouse, according to the Telegraph.
- “10,000 fewer children in private schools ahead of Labour’s VAT raid” – The Independent Schools Council has identified a 1.7% drop in pupil numbers this year compared to last, reports the Times.
- “Private schools plan legal challenge against Starmer’s VAT raid” – The Independent Schools Council is prepared to challenge the legality of Labour’s tax raid on private schools if the Government doesn’t make some concessions, says the Telegraph.
- “Lockdown babies not ready for school, report finds” – Children are joining Reception still using buggies, not toilet trained and not knowing how books work, according to the Telegraph.
- “Sending 70% of young people to university will be the ruin of Britain” – In our trade-starved economy we must do more than just saddle students with a sociology degree and a lifetime of a debt, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband’s ‘new era’ for energy policy is anything but” – Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and Ed Miliband travelled up to Merseyside to announce the latest twist in the Government’s energy policy, according to Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Labour to commit almost £22 billion to fund carbon capture and storage projects” – The Government is planning to commit almost £22 billion over 25 years to fund carbon capture and storage projects, reports the Guardian.
- “Why The Left Hates Laughter” – In Country Squire magazine, Sean Walsh explains why the Left lack a sense of humour.
- “A divided Right will mean decades of Labour misrule” – The Conservatives must not waste their time in Opposition as Labour did, says Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “Dutch resistance hero denied bridge naming honour due to lack of ‘diversity’” – The city of Amsterdam is refusing to name a bridge in honour of one of the most famous Dutch resistance heroes in World War II because he’s a white male, according to Brussels Signal.
- “Alarming rise of ‘super-fit’ slim young people suffering heart attacks” – Doctors agree that the numbers of young people having heart attack is on the rise, but disagree about the cause, according to the Mail.
- “The Hallett Inquiry: Evidence given on 26 September 2024” – on their Trust the Evidence Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson parse the evidence given by Chris Whitty to the Hallett Inquiry.
- “The fate of Israel’s hostages one year on” – The Telegraph accounts for every hostage taken on October 7th.
- “‘Fact check’ has become just another word for censorship” – “Fact-checking” is like “fake news”: Something that is now entirely in the eye of the beholder, says Douglas Murray in the New York Post.
- “Tim Walz is Weird” – Eugyppius watched the Vice Presidential debate and, on his Substack, concludes that Tim Walz is far weirder than JD Vance.
- “The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections” – Alex Armstrong in the Critic writes about the recent Austrian elections.
- “What does “hate speech” actually mean?” – No government has yet been able to define ‘hate speech’ successfully, says Andrew Doyle on his Substack. And therein lies the problem.
- “GB News facing ‘significant fine’ after losing High Court battle against Ofcom” – A High Court Judge has given permission for GB News to launch a judicial review into Ofcom’s finding that its Rishi Sunak election special breached the Broadcasting Code, reports the Telegraph.
- “The National Trust must not play politics” – This once-cherished body appears more preoccupied with woke activism than preserving our heritage, says Lord West, a retired Admiral in the Royal Navy, in the Telegraph.
- “Non-binary customers win compensation for being asked if they are male or female” – MoneySuperMarket and Transunion have been criticised over lack of more than two options when asking customers to identify their gender, reports the Telegraph.
- “Revealed: First migrant crime table” – One in 50 Albanians in the UK in prison, Telegraph analysis shows
- “President Milei delivers a powerful speech at the United Nations General Assembly” – On X, the libertarian President of Argentina tells the United Nations General Assembly why it’s mistaken to promote socialism over free markets.
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They got to the Pope! How did they brainwash him?
See comment below.
Follow the money.
“natural stored energy of the Earth”: you could get a marketing job with terms like that! Years ago, there was a product called “Natural Gas”, which is no longer sold as such, which superseded coal and oil as the source of domestic and commercial heating.
Anyway, maybe Trump regards Leo as the enemy now.
What does trump have to do with this?
Another communist pope from Southern America. In more conservative times I still remember, Catholicism in this region of the world was referred to as so-called Liberation Theology and frowned upon by the Catholic church proper because it was — well — an attempt to integrate Catholic faith with communist policies.
apparently the CIA backed money floating around the conclave was incredible
Only mankind can save the total of God’s creation from itself!
Thus spake an atheist.
Absolutely spot on you are! Can’t all these Green Christians of various denominations see their own outrageous blasphemy in saying that God made a mistake in designing the world, and He needs humans to fix it for Him?
Just like the Trans-Sodomite Mob of Fake Christians who say God made a mistake in creating them as male or female, and He needs humans to fix it for Him. And let them marry their horse in church. (Yes, some crazed bint in America actually wanted to do that.)
As was pointed out the other day – it is not ‘climate change’ that threatens people but the government’s actions in the name of climate change that do while completely ignoring adaption.
As for earthquakes, the theory is that they are caused by very strong solar windstreams while volcanic activity could be linked to periods of low solar activity. And nope, don’t expect anyone to fund research into this quite important area as they have no intention of attributing anything to the sun in case people start to wonder if it has anything to do with our climate or weather.
Slightly off topic here, but it’s almost 18 years since we last had a lot of Summer floods. In the area I live in, the 20/07/07 one led to a fair bit of investment in new structures to protect against it, such as quite tall corrugated steel walling (covered by soil with grass on top in the main) alongside brooks that carry surface drainage. Also, Thames Water invested a lot on improved sewage structures, pipelines etc.
Quite a few archived news stories about that lot, e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/6911778.stm or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_floods
As a Catholic who has not yet lapsed, I share your views on clergy who speak on matters scientific from the pulpit (or the cathedra). If they had a scientific background they would know that science is never settled but always open for discussion and change. If they have no scientific background, then they should stick to matters biblical and theological and let their flock decide for themselves. This played out even more seriously during the covid years when they closed their church doors and their minds to the bigger picture, and we were not allowed to follow our common sense and conscience and meet for worship as we deemed fit, and refuse to be jabbed without feeling guilty that we were not loving our neighbour by so refusing.
I think the Roman Catholic Church is following the same script as the Anglican Church, which gave up on the work of saving souls many years ago so that it could concentrate instead on saving the planet.
Yet Pope Leo isn’t so ignorant on STEM subjects, with a BS in Mathematics, he taught Mathematics and Physics in a school:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIV
Agree with all that but Chris is mistaken to say that Pope Leo is speaking ex cathedra when coming out with his ingrained political views. In other respects he does seem a big improvement on his predecessor.
Care of the environment has long been a feature of Catholic social teaching. The author of this article could have made his point without adopting such a spiteful, patronising tone towards Pope Leo XIV. I can’t be the only Catholic reader who finds this article thoroughly offensive.
Obviously what a sceptical website needs is more deference to authority.
Nice one! 🙂
… You mean, like using the unaltered experimental results derived from investigating what the Almighty hath made?
The Pope may know his religion but know nothing about science.
He taught Physics in a school, so he does know something.
The Catholic Church has such a marvellous track record when it comes to recognising scientific FACTS.
The Pope is best ignored on his latest anti-scientific pontificating nonsense – as with so much else.
The Catholic Church tolerated Copernicus’ heliocentric views but, instead of discussing matters within the intellectual circle, in Latin, Galileo involved the masses, promoting an incorrect theory, in Italian, creating geopolitical problems. Planets don’t circle the Sun: their paths are ellipses, something determined by Kepler, using Tycho Brahe’s observational data.
Galileo was an early version of Al Gore!
Galileo did do some excellent work on Terrestrial Motion, rolling balls down a slope, but that is forgotten.
A fellow lapsed catholic here. Mine was Sister Mary who took great delight in instilling a sense of guilt that persists to this day. She also liked beating us with a leather belt. The joys of a 1970’s Scottish education.