- “Trump has shown tariff diplomacy works – we should follow his example” – In the Telegraph, Matthew Lynn urges Europe to ditch its timidity and embrace Trump’s bold, proven “tariff diplomacy” to make countries take back their illegal migrants.
- “If Trump succeeds in reinventing government, expect his plans to be the global blueprint” – In the Telegraph, Simon Case suggests that if Trump, aided by Musk, succeeds in reshaping U.S. government, his bold methods could set a global precedent.
- “Fake white guilt drove decades-long DEI mania” – On the Public Substack, Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag explain why America took a disastrous wrong turn in the past 15 years, embracing an ideology of victimhood and rejecting meritocracy.
- “Navy rebrands HMS Agincourt to appease French” – In the Spectator, Steerpike reveals that Ministry of Defence officials have approved a Royal Navy request to change the name of HMS Agincourt to avoid offending the French.
- “Public turns on Labour over economic downturn” – According to a new Ipsos survey, the public has turned on Labour after Rachel Reeves’s record tax raid triggered an economic downturn, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain is on track for a ‘Reeves recession’” – A net 22% of private sector companies expect their output to decline between now and April, writes Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “Bill will leave children ‘spending longer in failing schools’” – The Children’s Commissioner has launched a scathing attack on Labour’s plans to reform England’s school system, accusing ministers of “legislating against the things we know work”, reports the Times.
- “‘I’m fighting for international law’” – In an interview with Sienna Rodgers for PoliticsHome, Attorney General Lord Hermer declares he’s ready for “a fight” with critics of international law.
- “Attorney General admits he has recused himself from giving government advice” – The Attorney General has admitted that he has at times had to recuse himself from giving advice to the Government because of potential conflicts of interest, reports the Standard.
- “Attorney General argued that member of ‘sadistic’ militia should be granted asylum in U.K.” – In 2012, Lord Hermer fought for a former member of the “wanton, sadistic and brutal” Zanu PF youth militia to be granted asylum in the U.K., according to the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband poised to miss 2030 Net Zero targets” – A projected shortfall in wind and solar farms could prevent Britain from reaching its 95% renewable goal, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s war on motorists ‘the tip of the iceberg’” – Drivers have joined the long list of Britons who feel let down by Starmer, writes Joe Wright in the Telegraph.
- “Council pushes for monthly bin collections ‘to boost recycling’” – Bristol’s Green council may switch to monthly bin collections, aiming to save £2.3 million and boost recycling, reports the Mail.
- “The cities that will be ‘submerged by global warming’” – Scientists from Nanyang Technological University have predicted that global sea levels could rise by a staggering 6.2 feet by 2100 if carbon dioxide emissions continue to increase, says the Mail. Arrant nonsense, of course.
- “Left-wing activists who want to shut down Musk’s X handed taxpayer cash” – Left-wing activists who want to shut down the social media platform X have been handed money by taxpayer-funded charities, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Almost half of young people no longer drink alcohol” – Nearly half of young people no longer drink alcohol as health concerns, the growing Muslim population and “abstinence influencers” change Britain’s relationship with booze, according to the Times.
- “The process of the Assisted Dying bill is beginning to ring alarm bells” – In the Telegraph, Nick Timothy warns that Kim Leadbeater’s push for her Assisted Dying Bill raises serious concerns about the integrity of the legislative process.
- “The corporate takeover of Theatre Westminster” – On Substack, Thinking Coalition exposes the corporate capture of democracy through the 2021 care home vaccine mandate.
- “Starmer ramps up U.K. World Health Organisation funding as Trump pulls out” – As Trump withdraws U.S. support from the WHO, Guido highlights Starmer ramping up the U.K.’s contributions.
- “Donald Trump is reinstating thousands of members of the military discharged for refusing Covid jabs” – Donald Trump is reinstating military members who were discharged for refusing Covid shots, with back pay – a promise kept, writes Alex Berenson on his Substack.
- “The cure for vaccine skepticism” – In RealClearPolitics, Martin Kulldorff argues that the only way to restore public trust in vaccinations – which has taken a big hit since the lies attending the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine – is to put a well-known vaccine skeptic in charge of the vaccine research agenda.
- “There is no justice in the Gaza hostage deal” – The Gaza hostage deal ensures the cycle of bloodshed will continue, says Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
- “Merz bows to pressure, pledges to bring anti-migration legislation to the Bundestag on Friday and hopes to pass it with AfD support” – On Substack, Eugyppius captures the seismic shift in German politics as Friedrich Merz shatters the cordon sanitaire, bringing the AfD-driven Influx Limitation Act to the Bundestag.
- “Germany’s immigration meltdown” – In UnHerd, Wolfgang Munchau warns that Germany’s immigration crisis and collapsing political “firewalls” may not only fuel the rise of the AfD but also unravel the EU.
- “‘The Davos I knew is over’” – In the Spectator, William Cash declares the Davos era over, exposing the World Economic Forum as a circus of elite hypocrisy.
- “Transgender athletes face blanket ban at Olympics” – Biological males identifying as women are increasingly likely to be banned from the female category across Olympic sport after another leading candidate to become IOC President backed a new blanket ban, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bye bye, Viz” – On his Mad World blog, Russell David shares the letter he wrote to Viz, announcing that he was cancelling his 20-year-long subscription because it’s now become part of the centrist dad, liberal-Left, Remainery, PC, metropolitan, globalist, tedious, annoying establishment.
- “The soft bigotry of low expectations” – On Substack, Andrew Doyle attacks Oxford and Cambridge’s proposal to make exams easier for black and brown people.
- “In defence of Peter Hitchens” – On UNN, Dr. Roger Watson defends Peter Hitchens as a fearless journalist, unafraid to challenge accepted narratives – from COVID-19 restrictions to the Axel Rudakubana case.
- “Chinese AI has sparked a $1 trillion panic – and it doesn’t care about free speech” – China’s DeepSeek is ringing alarm bells in the West as it breaks out of China and threatens to challenge America’s AI giants across the rest of the world, writes Matthew Field in the Telegraph.
- “‘What I learnt from playing with China’s new AI’” – In the Spectator, Ross Anderson explores China’s AI breakthrough DeepSeek – stunningly capable, disturbingly cheap and eerily Orwellian.
- “‘Elon was the hammer blow’” – Tech mogul Marc Andreessen explains to Lex Fridman exactly how Elon Musk delivered the hammer blow that ended the U.S. Government’s illegal internet censorship operation.
Marc Andreessen just revealed exactly how Elon Musk delivered the hammer blow that ended the US Government's illegal internet censorship operation.
— Hans C Nelson
Humanity is forever in your debt, @elonmusk.
And thank you for these revelations, @pmarca. pic.twitter.com/kydZ3Rv89K(@HansCNelson) January 27, 2025
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I’m all for protecting our seas, but as the author himself intimates, there may be bigger fish to fry!
Coral can look after itself.
The real story here is the shameful way Peter Ridd was dealt with.
Full story on WUWT site. He lost his court case because the OZ ‘law’ decided that he should. Freedom lost that day.
Coral, science.
Makes me so angry this article (and encouraged!); The way that this set of privileged scumbags have exploited everyone’s love and concern for the natural world to advance their own empire building, thereby:
Ruining everyone’s mental health, especially children who now believe the world is basically fucked.
Subverting genuine environmental causes like deforestation and pollution and subsuming them into their own made up bullshit.
Capturing once noble charities and NGOs into their own confected crisis.
When we, ordinary people, have destroyed and made an example of these pathetic criminals and their families, it’s good to know we’ll still have coral reefs and polar bears to admire.
Well said.
Like convid, the climate crisis is a made up fiasco to scaremonger the sheeple and drum up revenue prospects for the so called “elite’s” businesses… The average person even if scientifically trained has no perspective of geological time.
Follow the money and all the bullshit makes sense.
At last a positive note on DS. Wonderful news but I guess it won’t be put on MSM..
It raises the question: How good is modern education? Is it just being exploited by some to encourage the belief in fake news about many things? Maybe we’re entering a phase within which we don’t trust so-called ‘experts’ much at all. Scepticism is healthy, after all.
Whenever there is aass hysteria about any subject you should instinctually criticise and study it.
You will often find the flaws very quickly.
Climate change is one such su ject.
Wee fact for you: the climate has always changed and always will.
Taxing you won’t change this fact.
”Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom” by Patrick Moore (one of the original founders of Greenpeace) is well worth reading. He debunks all this ridiculous scare-mongering, and he’s not happy with David Attenborough either!
Christopher Booker is worth a read too:
https://books.google.com/books/about/Scared_to_Death.html?id=fUhfAAAACAAJ
This is the calculation, using internationally recognised data, nothing fancy, no hidden agenda, just something we can all do by taking our socks and shoes off.
Assuming increasing atmospheric CO2 is causing the planet to warm:
Atmospheric CO2 levels in 1850 (beginning of the Industrial Revolution): ~280ppm (parts per million atmospheric content) (Vostock Ice Core).
Atmospheric CO2 level in 2021: ~410ppm. (Manua Loa).
410ppm minus 280ppm = 130ppm ÷ 171 years (2021 minus 1850) = 0.76ppm of which man is responsible for ~3% = ~0.02ppm.
That’s every human on the planet and every industrial process adding ~0.02ppm CO2 to the atmosphere per year on average. At that rate mankind’s CO2 contribution would take ~25,000 years to double which, the IPCC states, would cause around 2°C of temperature rise. That’s ~0.0001°C increase per year for ~25,000 years.
One hundred (100) generations from now (assuming ~25 years per generation) would experience warming of ~0.25°C more than we have today. ‘The children’ are not threatened!
Furthermore, the Manua Loa CO2 observatory (and others) can identify and illustrate Natures small seasonal variations in atmospheric CO2 but cannot distinguish between natural and manmade atmospheric CO2.
Hardly surprising. Mankind’s CO2 emissions are so inconsequential this ‘vital component’ of Global Warming can’t be illustrated on the regularly updated Manua Loa graph.
Mankind’s emissions are independent of seasonal variation and would reveal itself as a straight line, so should be obvious.
Not even the global fall in manmade CO2 over the early Covid-19 pandemic, estimated at ~14% (14% of ~0.02ppm CO2 = 0.0028ppm), registers anywhere on the Manua Loa data. Unsurprisingly.
In which case, the warming the planet has experienced is down to naturally occurring atmospheric CO2, all 97% of it.
That’s entirely ignoring the effect of the most powerful ‘greenhouse’ gas, water vapour which is ~96% of all greenhouse gases.
And if you’re interested, here’s the composition of some of the more prevalent gases in the atmosphere:
Nitrogen (N2) 78.0%
Oxygen (O2). 21.0%
Water vapour (H2O) 3.0%
Nitrous Oxide (N2O) 0.095%
Aerosols 0.070%
Methane (CH4) 0.036%
CO2 – Natural 0.040%
CO2 – Man 0.001%