- “Kemi Badenoch is the true inheritor of Thatcher’s legacy” – Her integrity and strong convictions prove she has what it takes to become party leader, says Tony Sewell in the Telegraph.
- “Is Kemi Badenoch scared of Robert Jenrick?” – As the frontrunner with the most to lose, Kemi Badenoch appears to be ignoring Robert Jenrick’s invitation to debate her on the BBC, says William Atkinson in the Spectator.
- “Labour is embracing the ideology of ineptitude” – Ministers would rather ‘do the right thing’ than protect British interests – as Net Zero and Chagos make clear, says the Telegraph‘s Tim Stanley.
- “The Times view on challenging students: Free Thinking” – Labour is complacently ignoring the free speech crisis on university campuses, says the Times in a leading article.
- “The proof Reeves will be unable to squeeze the rich” – Rachel Reeves’s tax raids are already unravelling as the Chancellor is warned that her war on wealth will backfire, writes Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
- “Is Labour’s Britain really an investor’s paradise?” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark says the letter to the Times from the heads of 14 banks and other financial institutions declaring it is “time to invest” in Britain “reads like a note scrawled by hostages suffering from Stockholm Syndrome”.
- “Brwa Shorsh and the failure of Britain’s asylum system” – In the Spectator, Laurie Wastell asks what it will take for the Government and public authorities to take seriously the threat of illegal immigration and actually do something about it.
- “Inside Italy’s answer to the Rwanda migrant scheme” – The Italian navy began transferring migrants to a new offshore processing centre in Albania on Monday, according to the Telegraph.
- “How ‘tree-hugging’ Hezbollah duped the UN in southern Lebanon” – United Nations peacekeepers supposed to keep Hezbollah from Israel’s border have instead been outmanoeuvred and intimidated into allowing the militant group to build up extensive military might, says the Telegraph.
- “Watch: Ukrainian men dragged out of nightclubs by army recruiters” – The Telegraph shows social media videos of Ukrainian men being dragged out of night-time venues by recruiters and press-ganged into the army.
- “Monkeypox: Evidence of the “Pandemic Preparedness” Lie” – ‘Pandemic preparedness’ is an excuse to carry out dangerous biowarfare and biodefence experiments under the unconvincing cloak of keeping the public safe, argue Clayton Baker, Brian Hooker and Heather Ray in Brownstone Journal.
- “The Takada paper shows very clearly that the Covid vaccines are not safe” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch summarises the alarming findings of a recent Japanese paper on Covid vaccine safety.
- “The flaw at the heart of Ed Miliband’s Net Zero plan” – In the pursuit of decarbonisation, the Energy Secretary appears willing to blight the environment, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Blackout prevention system activated as electricity demand set to spike” – A backstop system designed to prevent blackouts was mobilised for the first time in two years amid a capacity warning as Britain’s power grid battled low winds and nuclear outages, the Telegraph reports.
- “Tesla suffers first drop in U.K. sales since 2013” – Tesla’s U.K. revenues have fallen for the first time in more than a decade as Elon Musk’s electric car company grapples with a slowdown in demand, reports the Telegraph.
- “European Union is ‘dividing U.K. with electric car border’” – Northern Ireland is being made to enforce a “protectionist tariff” on imports of Chinese models in a move drawn up by Brussels under the Windsor Framework Brexit deal, the Telegraph reports.
- “Doctors told to avoid traditional asthma inhalers because they generate greenhouse gas” – Future doctors will be expected to take the “climate impact” of inhalers into account, medical school leaders have said, reports the Telegraph.
- “The myth of plastic recycling is finally unravelling” – A Telegraph investigation looks into the truth about how much of our waste gets recycled really (very little, most of it is burned, thank goodness) and where it ends up.
- “This season of The West is atrocious” – The Postcards from the Abyss Substack imagines the current travails of the West as a TV show and gives the latest season the thumbs down.
- “When we cannot even expel foreign criminals, it’s time to leave the ECHR” – There is only one way for Britain to radically reform human rights laws and reduce illegal migration, argues Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “BBC presenters will not be called ‘talent’ anymore, says Director General” – Good to see terminology catching up with reality…
- “The new anti-gay activism” – Those who advocate gender identity ideology are fundamentally opposed to gay rights and we need to start describing them accurately, says Andrew Doyle on Substack.
- “U.S. publisher Dovid Efune in exclusive talks to buy the Telegraph” – The publisher of U.S. news website the New York Sun has entered exclusive talks to buy the Telegraph for more than £500m.
- “Britain’s second-richest man among billionaires backing ‘anti-woke’ university” – The “anti-woke” University of Austin has received $200m from high-profile investors supporting its “fearless pursuit of truth”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Braverman’s Cambridge cancellation exposes the campus free speech crisis” – The cancellation of Suella Braverman’s speaking event at Cambridge last week was grimly predictable, says Tom Slater in the Spectator.
- “I went for a mastectomy and they offered me assisted dying, Canadian cancer patient reveals” – A woman undergoing life-saving cancer surgery in Canada was offered assisted suicide by doctors as she was about to enter the operating room, reports the Telegraph.
- “Von der Leyen’s authoritarian plot” – In a few weeks, Ursula von der Leyen’s new European Commission will officially take office, at which point she will have almost unfettered control over the bloc’s politics, warns Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
- “The biopic meant to derail Donald Trump’s campaign has backfired spectacularly” – The U.S. Presidential candidate tried to stop The Apprentice being released, but its pitiful box office proves he needn’t have worried, says Alexander Larman in the Telegraph.
- “Trump tightens gap with Harris in three new national polls” – Three national polls released Sunday depict a tightening Presidential race, with former President Trump erasing recent gains from Vice President Kamala Harris with just 23 days to go, reports Axios.
- “Happy Columbus Day, or as Elizabeth Warren calls it: ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’” – Celebrate
Columbus DayIndigenous Peoples’ Day with a video posted on X of Elizabeth Warren musically reminding us that she is, of course, an Indian too.
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I don’t know how Chris keeps going in the face of the msm lie machine and the dishonest scientists on the other side. Well done though I do notice climate scepticism becoming more mainstream especially on the right.
Scepticism in science is essential. Otherwise it isn’t science, it is activism.
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
Richard P. Feynman
“It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.”
Richard P. Feynman
An incredibly smart man, he knew that he didn’t know. This is how scientists should think.
$cientists on the other hand…
nod———-Or “Ah yes, science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact”——Mark Twain.
Scepticism = science; consensus = religion.
One of the main controllers of climate is El Nino and El Nina events. But data regarding these huge weather changing oscillations only goes back to 1989. ——It is worth pointing out to people who have already decided what is true about climate that there is actually nothing unusual about current temperatures or climate. To those people who are always saying things like “Climate Change is real and is happening now” what are you talking about? These kind of statements are about as scientific as a monkey with a test tube.
I’d say that climate change is normal; the climate is not normally stable at all. The real scam is manipulating the language, and perhaps the lack of understanding, so as to promote a campaign.
Remember when you say that “climate change is normal”, that the term “climate change” has come to mean changes allegedly caused by humans. It does not mean changes that occur naturally.
And Malenkevich cycles. The wobbles and orbits of the earth are not stable and affect hownclose we are to the sun.
And sunspot activity. Climate change and global warming are lies by green communists
I still worry about the polar bears.
“When Al Gore was born there were about 5,000 polar bears, today only 25,000 remain.”
Someone forgot to tell them bears they are supposed to be in deep sh.t
“The arctic will be ice free by 2015”
– John Kerry 2009
A true visionary.
It must be catastrophic. There are no penguins left in the Arctic and the polar bears obviously can’t cope with the lack of ice in Antarctica.
I was about to politely correct you and then saw what you did there, faffor
…and the fish population of Mt Everest has been utterly devastated.
I don’t see anything soaring. What I see is an incredibly stable pattern which confirms to me the absolutely staggering and amazing predictability of our weather.
The seasons come and go almost like clockwork. Temperatures move within the narrowest of bands.
How something so vast and complex works so elegantly is really a thing of beauty. Much like the human body or any living organism.
Which is what makes the idea that you can just control the weather by fiddling with CO2 so comical and preposterous.
Thanks beautifully expressed post.
Played for Fools
Great article, as ever. It seems to me that the western world are being played for a bunch of fools on climate change;
China has announced its new climate envoy;
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202401/1305432.shtml
Whilst at the same time China continues to burn coal as if butter would not melt in their mouths!
”There are a total of 3,092 operating coal-fired power plant units in China. As of January 2023, the province of Shandong, which lies to the south of Beijing, houses the greatest number of coal power plants, at over 400 units.3 Jan 2024”
As I say, it seems to me that we are being played for a bunch of fools, while China, Russia etc. plan the demise of the western world.
We are being played for fools? ——-But the western world is complaint with this. To understand why, you need to realise what the politics are all about. Then to realise that the Sustainable Development Politics isn’t really about the climate. The climate is simply the excuse given to the public for the politics.
Western world is compliant. Exactly. Fat, lazy and stupid we have become.
Lucky you realised I meant compliant rather than complaint.
Club of Rome 1972.
China and Russia don’t have to play us for fools we are doing OK just destroying ourselves.
nod——–Then you have to figure out why. Once you do, it will explain why there really isn’t a climate crisis and why a crisis is essential for putting political agenda’s in place and government never want to let a good crisis go to waste.
Excellent article as always, Chris. I wish there was some mechanism within the DS software to give articles ‘likes’ (as on FB) or…stars? (As on Off Guardian.)
There used to be, but what works better for ranking is activity, i.e. comments BTL.
Seconded
There was a large increase but November was rather low so it doesn’t take the level to anything extraordinary. As you can see from this chart, if you look at the whole of 2023 ice extents followed the the 2010-20 average pretty closely.
Tony Heller you are emphatically not; is there no end to the Diversity of your Expertise?
Yeah I saw this story on the BBC