- “Forget the $100 million – this is Farage’s smartest move yet” – The rupture with Musk is a turning point for Reform – a chance to purge the party of some of the uglier ideas Farage has promoted, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “This Musk-Farage split won’t stop Reform” – Any establishment figures tempted to believe that this is the beginning of the end of the Farage project are only kidding themselves, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph.
- “Why Nigel Farage is right to not associate himself with Tommy Robinson” – Farage’s move to distance himself from Robinson is the right one, says Pimlico Journal on Substack. While Robinson can rally crowds, he’s more reviled than revered, even among Reform’s own supporters.
- “Why Reform won’t touch Tommy Robinson with a barge pole” – Tommy Robinson’s reputation as a violent football hooligan and convicted criminal makes him unpalatable for a party vying to become the next government, writes Martin Evans in the Telegraph.
- “Tulip Siddiq’s siblings linked to group that spread ‘false propaganda’” – Anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq is facing increasing demands for an investigation into her property interests as it emerged that her brother and sister are associated with a political think tank accused of spreading false propaganda, reports the Times.
- “Reeves facing £6 billion blow from rising gilt yields” – Higher interest rates are eating into the Chancellor’s headroom for increased public spending, says the Telegraph.
- “‘I thought we were over banning British history. Not Bridget’s Blob’” – Bridget Phillipson has made a bold pledge to “shake up” the curriculum and put our education on a par with Mali, Chad and Yemen, writes Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times.
- “Keir Starmer will be out of No.10 within a year, poll predicts” – Keir Starmer will be ousted as PM within a year, an exclusive poll for the Mail on Sunday has predicted – with furious voters attacking his poor handling of the economy, the NHS, immigration and the cost-of-living crisis.
- “Labour accused of plot to ‘rig’ next election by axing voter ID scheme” – Labour has been accused of plotting a shameless bid to “rig” the next election by sweeping away laws to prevent voter fraud and allowing millions of foreign nationals to vote, reports the Mail.
- “Reform in row with Labour over delayed local elections” – Reform U.K. has accused the Government of plotting to cancel roughly half of May’s council elections to slow the party’s momentum, according to inews.
- “‘I’m not afraid to fight’” – In the Mail, Lynn Barber finds out what makes the controversial Conservative Party leader tick – and what makes her see red.
- “Foreigners three times as likely to be arrested for sex offences as British citizens” – The latest crime league table reveals that foreign nationals are over three times more likely than Britons to be arrested for sexual offences, with Albanians topping the list, followed by Afghans, Iraqis, Algerians and Somalians, according to the Telegraph.
- “Violent criminal given ‘final chance’ after leaving victim disabled spared jail again for assault” – A thug involved in the brutal gang attack which left a German student with life-changing brain damage has once again been spared jail for violent assault, reports Kent Online.
- “Why we should all fear Labour’s contempt for the ordinary voter” – One of the most disturbing trends in politics today is what happens when we ask for something that the ruling class does not want to give us, says Matt Goodwin in the Mail.
- “Why the Left needs to watch Star Trek” – Today’s moribund Left could do far worse than to take its cue from Star Trek’s bold embrace of a humanist anti-authoritarian communism, writes Yanis Varoufakis in UnHerd.
- “Freedom for Cornwall! MPs back Welsh-style devolution plan for duchy” – According to a new campaign, Cornwall should be treated more like a separate British nation than a county, with its own parliament and new powers to control its own destiny and culture, reports the Mail.
- “Alastair Campbell comes to son’s aid over failed betting syndicate” – Alastair Campbell helped to draft a press statement for his son’s failed betting syndicate, as investors say it is “inevitable” they will go to the police over its multimillion-pound losses, says the Times.
- “Elderly farmer threatened by council after knocking down ‘historic’ wall he built himself” – An elderly farmer has been threatened by a council for refusing to pay a fine over an “historic” boundary wall he built himself more than 50 years ago, reports the Mail.
- “The death throes of free speech in the United Kingdom” – In the American Spectator, Matthew Omolesky lays bare the U.K.’s slide into anarcho-tyranny.
- “Snow travel chaos as roads are closed and flights are cancelled” – Britain has been hit by more snow causing vehicle collisions, road closures and flight cancellations while trains are also delayed, reports the Mail.
- “Our village is being swallowed by 8,400 homes and a solar panel farm” – Residents of an idyllic English village have vented their fury at plans to surround them with a huge housing estate and a large solar panel farm, says the Mail.
- “Why Trump’s anti-ESG movement could spell the end for ‘green finance’” – As Trump’s anti-ESG wave crosses the Atlantic, Britain’s finance sector braces for a u-turn in the era of “drill, baby, drill”, writes Michael Bow in the Telegraph.
- “Tesla is now fighting for its future” – For the first time in its short history, Tesla may well now be in real trouble, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “The Verified Initiative of the United Nations” – If the idea of having climate change facts and stories “verified” by TikTok absolutely terrifies you, then you are in your right mind, writes Kip Hansen in WUWT?
- “What is HMPV? Virus outbreak in China raises alarm” – A viral infection with flu-like symptoms particularly dangerous for young children, the elderly and vulnerable groups is surging in China, reports the Sunday Times.
- “‘No one will take heartbreaking ordeals after Covid vaccine seriously’” – Patients whose health has been ravaged after taking COVID-19 vaccines are demanding more support as the Government faces paying out tens of millions of pounds in damages, says the Mail.
- “Catastrophic neurological and psychiatric damage from COVID-19 ‘vaccines’” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, Nicolas Hulscher highlights alarming findings that COVID-19 vaccines significantly raise the risk of serious neurological and psychiatric disorders, including strokes, Alzheimer’s, cognitive impairment and depression.
- “Are vaccines life-saving miracle medicines or is there more to the story?” – On Substack, Mr. Law explores the complex history of vaccines, questioning the notion that centuries of science guarantee their safety and efficacy.
- “The week in numbers (to January 4th)” – On Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan take a numerical look back over the week’s leading heath stories.
- “School principals confirm immigration main reason behind rise in exemptions from Irish” – A Freedom of Information request has confirmed that the growing number of non-national students in Ireland is the primary reason for the sharp increase in second-level students being granted an exemption from sitting exams in Irish, reports Gript.
- “Arab tourist in Berlin provokes outrage by firing a rocket through a child’s bedroom window on New Year’s Eve, later complains to the press that he is a victim of German racism” – New Year’s Eve has never been the best holiday, but in many major German cities it has become a real danger to life and limb, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “The EU in 2025: A union at the crossroads of chaos” – Europe’s grand experiment is not looking so grand anymore, says Konstantinos Bogdanos in Brussels Signal.
- “Famed Washington Post cartoonist quits after Jeff Bezos sketch blocked” – A Washington Post cartoonist announced that she had quit the paper this week because it rejected her cartoon of Amazon founder and Post owner Jeff Bezos, along with other tech billionaires, grovelling to President-elect Trump, reports Fox News.
- “Marvel game bans the words ‘free Taiwan’ and ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’” – Marvel has been accused of censorship after players of its new video game were unable to chat about topics that are banned in China, according to Game Rant.
- “Enoch Burke, or why trans ideology is still in schools despite landslide ‘No’” – In Gript, Dr. Matt Treacy slams Ireland’s schools for ignoring the anti-gender ideology referendum, with Enoch Burke’s ongoing fight highlighting the damaging push of gender identity ideology on kids.
- “The truth about Bob Dylan’s falling out with Pete Seeger” – The ’60s folk singers didn’t hate Dylan because he went electric. It was because he didn’t care about their lefty politics, says Michael C. Moynihan in the Free Press.
- “British man arrested for making meme offensive to child rapists” – England is safe once again after the Metropolitan police caught and jailed a man who made memes that offended child rapists, reports the (satirical) Babylon Bee.
- “Is wokeism finally dying in California?” – A local California news story about a backfiring cancellation attempt on a 74 year-old MAGA supporter suggests the age of shaming Trump fans may be over – even in California.
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These nonladies and ungentleman have learnt the lessons of the pandemic well: Someone who’s in control of the megaphones can tell an unlimited amount of plain lies unchallenged. There was no summer in 2021, it just kept raining until autumn. Then, preciously few warm and somewhat dry weeks followed before it started getting cold again. With the exception of April, winter 2021/ 2022 basically lasted until the first week of July. There was plenty of rain and more often than not, it was so uncomfortably cold that I had to turn the heating on. I’ve never done that in June before. Come July, sort-of sommer came. Often overcast and rather cool but with longer pauses between the downpours. In the middle of this exactly three warm (not hot) days occurred. This doesn’t make an extreme heatwave and BBC employees who keep claiming the contrary and who know very well that they’re lying shouldn’t wonder why annoyed people keep calling them out on that.
Was it at least a safe and effective heatwave?
We’ve had some average July days this year, two really hot days thanks to a particular weather system, that was followed by a week of below average temperature and above average rainfall. Now it’s back to July norms. Overall I’d guess this July’s average temperature was middle to slightly low compared to the multi-year average.
There’s a technically interesting article in the Udraigna on this:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/01/uk-farmers-count-cost-as-heatwave-kills-fruit-and-vegetable-crops
The first interesting thing to note here is that the top heading and the sub heading already differ in meaning, the top heading claiming a catastrophe (of sorts) occurred while the sub heading states that a catastrophe might occur if more extreme heat caused by clima crisis materializes. Chances are that the point of the sub headline is mostly to put extreme heat and clima crisis in one sentence, thereby implying a factually wrong cause-and-effect relation.
Half of the article is composed of quotes from a guy running a green wholesale business for fruit and vegetables in London. This is basically just a lot of handwaiving as no London business man has any first-hand experience of growing stuff in the fields somewhere out of London. The most amusing one is his assertion that he had faced a day long shortage of berries because they had all been cooked out in the open. As the cooking temperature of water is 100C and not 40C (at Heathrow), this certainly didn’t happen. As the next sentence reveals, this was really because fewer berries were picked for a couple of days, followed by the assertion that there could be real trouble of more hot spells occurred.
It then switches to farmers being concerned about the possible effects of the recent dry spell, implying that a few weeks without rain (we haven’t seen yet) would be somehow uncommon and dangerous during the summer months. Farmers – obviously – doesn’t refer to farmers but to another pencil pusher, namely, the deputy secretary of the union of farmers. Again, nothing has happened so far, but if different stuff would happen in future, there could well be difficulties in future.
— I really wish I was better at describing this, IMHO, the article is a textbook example of lying by implication while accurately reporting that nothing happened —
I was reading today that British winegrowers don’t want any rain because they are going to have the best wine year ever if the dry weather continues. My own observations show bumper crops of fruit coming on the trees and the wheat still standing, waiting to be harvested, has ripened perfectly (as opposed to some recent years where it has gone black on the stalk due to the wet). Even some blackberries are ready to pick.
According to the Met office, the definition of a heatwave is FIVE consecutive days of very high temperatures…not the one and a half we had the other week – Monday was Costa del Sol hot, Tuesday started that way, but by the afternoon it was raining. Call that a heatwave? No, Met office, you can’t because it b****y wasn’t you dorks.
The climate changer dream summer was 2018 which it was really unpleasantly hot and dry for an unusually long time. Since then, they’ve been trying to rerun this based on media fantasies every summer (with the exception of 2020 and 2021, when these clowns of doom were too occupied with COVID to care for the weather). 2018 was also the last year when we had normal weather forecasts in summer instead of climate catastrophe nudging by swapping the informational map showing a green outline of the country with cloud, sun and rain symbols to indicate local weather conditions to one using a gradient of light red to dark red calibrated such that the highest temperatures expected on a certain day get the darkest red, regardless of what these temperatures actually are. Any other information which used to be on this map has been silently dropped.
I’d really like to ask this BBC meteorlogist of 25 years why the BBC has chosen to remove the cloudy/ rainy/ sunny/ windy symbols from the overview map in favour of focussing exclusively on temperatures indicated in colours commonly associated with mortal danger from fire. There’s certainly no science which has determined that clouds, rain and wind don’t occur over England anymore. Hence, the BBC is selectively withholding important meteorological information about the actual weather in England in its visualizations of the weather forecast. What’s the rationale behind this?
Great points but this stopped being about observable reality, demonstrable fact and science long ago.
Crybullies, as they are known, have been a long established tactic of the left. It’s pretty easy to do:
Step 1, stoke up anger with a series of unprovoked inflammatory and/or abusive social media posts.
Step 2, cry victim when you get the inevitable backlash. If you are an A-lister this involves a sympathetic appearance on the BBC or in The Guardian.
The best way to deal with a crybully is to give them something to cry about, lol.
For most climate alarmists it’s a fashionable bourgeoise religion and one that ties in nicely with their pathological snobbery and their desire to tell the ghastly stinky little people how to live their lives. But for the BBC – the Grand Muftis of the sect – it’s more serious. They have most of their pensions invested in carbon trading and so-called renewables. The pyramid is collapsing and the only way they think they can shore up its foundations is by calling in ever more frequent truck loads of tax payer funded junk science bullshit, otherwise it’s goodbye gold plated pensions.
Driest July since 1935 according to met office as reported by the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62382703
Not sure how wet July 1976 was or July 2003.
This is the same bullshit as with the global temperatures: They’re averaging different rainfall measurements to arrive at a fictional England-wide level of rain. Mathematically, averages are subject to distortions by outliers and regardless of that, averaging measurements of different quantities still makes no sense.
A sensible way to present this information would be something like the “We’re on fire!” temperature map, just using a neutral colour (eg, light grey to dark gray) which would show how much rain was measured where. One could also create a so-called histogram by adding measurements rounded to mm of the same value together and present the outcome as 2D-plot. One could get then an idea of weather trends by calculating the average number of entries in each category for a number of years.
This isn’t exactly rocket science, more basic working with numerical data. When the Met Office doesn’t do this, either the people working there are very unqualified or a serious presentation of rainfall data would not suit itself to the intended kind of headlines.
I came across a speech made by Hitler in Munich in 1937. He emphasises community, much like Twitter, Facebook and the New World Order gangs.
“…And that brings us to the problem of freedom! Freedom, yes! Insofar as the interest of the national community gives the individual freedom, it is given! Where the freedom affects or even impairs the interest of the national community, the freedom of the individual ceases! Then the freedom of the national community takes the place of the freedom of the individual.”
If you’re stupid enough to watch the BBC you get what you deserve. They’re a propagandist organisation; they pump out propaganda.
Turn it off.
On a positive note. Greta Thumberg has just won (for the 3rd consecutive year) the award for “International Truant of the Year”
The 4-year contract for broadband services costing £70 billion sounds like a modest Government programme to manipulate our lifestyles.
The £70bn contract went to a small company called Place Group Ltd, which in its last published accounts had 2 employees.
Correct. More about this surprising contract award here:
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/small-company-cornwall-awarded-giant-7407664
Most people promoting net zero and a climate change “emergency” are not scientistists and Marr is a typical example. I listem to the view of those scientists who have studied climate and what has efffected it over billions of years rather than people whose opinion is based on what happened in the last few weeks. Most real climate scientists tell us that CO2 generated by humankind has a very minor impact on climate compared to a whole list of other factors that mankind can neither impact or control. There is no current climate emergency apart from that generated by politicians and companies that benefit from the idea of it.
The climate crisis scam that is reaching a scope of almost 1 trillion per year worldwide. This is all funded by tax money from rich Western Countries treasuries using Non Profits NGOs, fake charities, billionaire class trust funds & charities, University grants & government funded agencies. Tens of thousands are making a living & rely on peddling this religion for their livelihood. Climate change only occurs in rich western countries for a reason. This climate crisis will not end until rich Western Countries stop allowing abuse of their tax systems.