- “Britain at risk of £24 billion Trump tariff raid over VAT” – The UK is facing the prospect of 21% tariffs on some exports to the US if Trump imposes duties on Britain based on VAT charges, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer EU split as UK ‘won’t retaliate’ on Trump’s 25% steel tariffs” – Hopes that Britain might be spared a 25% tariff on steel imports to the US by refusing to fall in with the EU’s retaliatory import duties have been dealt a huge blow as Trump complained of the “huge deficit” in trade between our two countries, says the Mail.
- “Le snub! Britain refuses to sign global AI agreement at French summit” – Britain and the US have not put their names to the AI Action Summit declaration following two days of talks in the French capital, reports the Mail.
- “Brussels threatens to derail Macron’s French tech revolution” – A spiralling web of red tape threatens to undermine the French President’s grand AI ambitions, says Matthew Field in the Telegraph.
- “Brexit Britain can escape ‘old Europe’ to build big tech industry, says investor” – The head of one of the world’s biggest hedge funds argues that Brexit frees Britain from Europe’s bureaucratic shackles, providing an opportunity to join the US tech boom, according to the Telegraph.
- “Chagos case judge is ex-China official who backed Russian invasion of Ukraine” – One of the international judges who ruled against Britain over the Chagos Islands is a former Chinese government official who backed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, reports the Telegraph.
- “Court gives Gazans right to settle in UK” – Palestinian migrants have been granted the right to live in the UK after applying through a scheme meant for Ukrainian refugees, says the Telegraph.
- “The £1 million private jet flight that deported 47 illegal migrants to Albania” – A deportation flight carrying illegal migrants and criminals to Albania had just 47 on board at a cost of £1 million to the taxpayer, reports GB News. That works out at £21,276 per deportee.
- “Labour’s new borders watchdog will WFH… in Finland! Tories blast plan” – Labour’s choice to head a new borders watchdog has hinted he plans to work part of the time from his home in Finland, according to the Mail.
- “Labour suspends 11 councillors over vile WhatsApp group” – Labour has suspended 11 councillors over a WhatsApp group where messages mocked pensioners and made misogynistic and homophobic remarks, reports the Mail.
- “MP joked about Jewish clothing in Labour WhatsApp group” – WhatsApp messages sent by a suspended Labour MP, which appear to mock Jewish clothing, threaten to spark a new antisemitism row, says the Times.
- “Met Police could be forced to rehire officers sacked over abuse allegations” – The Met could be forced to reinstate hundreds of officers accused of sexual and domestic abuse after a judgment at the High Court, reports the Telegraph.
- “Criminal offense” – In Takimag, Steven Tucker slams the UK’s overzealous approach to policing insults.
- “Lefty lawyers like Starmer and Hermer have poisoned our children against Britain” – The Attorney General and his ilk find virtue in every country’s point of view save their own, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “The cult of victimhood has made children miserable” – Thanks to yet another government-funded study, we now know that children cope better with stress when taught that it’s part of everyday life, writes Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “Britain is failing Gen Z” – In the Spectator, Niall Gooch says that for Gen Z Britain is piling on taxes, pricing out home ownership and killing patriotism – so why would they fight for their country?
- “A Tory-Reform pact is a fantasy – but not for the reasons Kemi thinks” – In the Telegraph, Stephen Davies demolishes the idea of a Tory-Reform pact, highlighting that Britain’s Right is too divided by nationalism and free markets to ever unite.
- “Assisted dying’s safeguards were always a sham” – In the Telegraph, Madeline Grant slams Kim Leadbeater and her allies for dismantling the assisted dying Bill’s safeguards, deceiving MPs and turning the process into a sham.
- “Inside the People’s Vaccine Inquiry” – In TCW, Dr Elizabeth Evans blasts the reckless Covid vaccine roll-out as a catastrophic ethical failure.
- “Cancer deaths rose in Japan in 2022 and 2023, post-mRNA Covid shots” – On Substack, Alex Berenson reports that Japan saw 12,000 excess cancer deaths in 2022–23 – the strongest statistical signal yet of a link between mRNA Covid jabs and cancer.
- “All charges against Dr Charles Hoffe have been dropped by the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons” – On Substack, Dr Pierre Kory celebrates the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons dropping all charges against Dr Charles Hoffe for speaking out about mRNA vaccines.
- “New journal co-founded by NIH nominee raises eyebrows, misinformation fears” – The Journal of the Academy of Public Health claims to open up scientific communication, but its unusual editorial policies have some scientists concerned, says Catherine Offord in Science.
- “Wired’s Scicomm Writer Emily Mullin Attacks Independent Research, Because of Course” – In the Disinformation Chronicle, Paul E. Thacker takes aim at Emily Mullin, a science writer for Wired, who has raised bogus rears about the Journal of the Academy of Public Health.
- “Save our ostriches update” – On Substack, James Roguski urges immediate action to stop the Canadian Government from culling 400 healthy ostriches over supposed avian flu concerns.
- “In Soviet Germany, the Government protests you” – On Substack, Eugyppius exposes how Germany’s leftist Government funds protests to demonise half the country while the CDU flirts with breaking the cordon sanitaire separating mainstream German political parties from the AfD.
- “Ukraine may be Russian one day, says Trump as he hints at rare earths deal” – Trump has suggested Ukraine “may be Russian someday” while pushing for a deal exchanging US aid for Kyiv’s rare minerals, reports the Mail.
- “Release hostages by noon Saturday or war begins again, says Netanyahu” – Benjamin Netanyahu says that the ceasefire will be over and Israel will resume “intense fighting” in Gaza if Hamas doesn’t release the remaining hostages by midday Saturday, according to the Times of Israel.
- “Why Hamas does not really want to derail the hostage deal” – In the Telegraph, Henry Bodkin argues that Hamas’s postponement of hostage releases is a tactical move to secure more concessions from Israel and remind Trump of its influence.
- “Accept displaced Gazans or face aid cuts, Trump tells Jordan and Egypt” – Trump has threatened to cut off aid to Jordan and Egypt should they refuse to accept Palestinians from Gaza, according to ABC News.
- “Democrats loved ‘unelected power’ until Trump turned their own weapons against them” – The party of FDR and Obama created a powerful executive to ram through ‘progressive’ programmes, writes Charles Lipton in the Telegraph. Now it’s being used to dismantle them.
- “Counting coup” – On Substack, Thomas Buckley argues that Trump’s reforms aren’t a coup but a long-overdue reckoning.
- “Why aren’t Scotland’s politicians standing up for Sandie Peggie?” – Scotland’s leaders remain terrified to speak up about the Sandie Peggie case lest they feel the wrath of trans rights activists, says Euan McColm in the Spectator. This is no way to go on.
- “Deloitte UK refuses to scrap DEI rules in split with US office” – The boss of Deloitte UK has signalled a split with the firm’s US arm by reaffirming its diversity, equity and inclusion targets, reports the Independent.
- “Barcelona’s Mapi Leon denies inappropriately touching rival and asking her ‘do you have a d—?’” – A female Spanish footballer has denied touching an opponent in the crotch area and asking: “Do you have a d—?” according to JOE.
- “At last, the Church of England is standing up to wokery” – Make Holy Communion more inclusive by using non-alcoholic wine and gluten-free bread? You’ve got to be joking, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Channel 4’s sanctimonious moralising is the last gasp of the old, pro-migration regime” – Channel 4’s latest reality show sells a woke morality tale about immigration the public are no longer willing to buy, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “‘What’s happened to you?’” – On TalkTV, journalist Yvonne Ridley tries telling Julia Hartley-Brewer that the Israeli hostages were treated “well”. What follows is the most entertaining WTF moment of the year.
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Just think, a cheap, reliable and plentiful supply of gas from a near neighbour or a much dearer supply from across the sea.
It’s a good job Uncle Sam never thought to blow up that Nord stream 2 thingy or Europe would be in real trouble.
And think as well of the huge amounts of oil and gas in UK waters around us. Think if the massive amounts of gas available from land based wells in the form of fracked gas – enough they say to power Britain for decades, all on its own.
If we only realised the wealth available the cost of manufacturing UK designed and built small nuclear reactors would be affordable so we could have at least two, uncorrelated sources of reliable electrical energy as well as natural gas for industrial and domestic use.
all this at much lower prices and secure, if only the judges can be kept at bay.
I fear not.
Kill all the lawyers!
(That’s Shakespeare, not an incitement to kill legal professionals)
A judges’ republic is a contradiction in terms!
Meanwhile Britain’s Minister of Energy Insecurity colludes with minority eco-zealots to prevent the majority of the British populace from accessing abundant, affordable hydrocarbon energy beneath Britain’s feet and under Britain’s seas.
All to pander to climate fallacy, folly and wishful thinking. Breezes and sunbeams are no substitute for high-density, high-gradient 24/7/365 energy from hydrocarbons and/or controlled nuclear fission. Windmills and waterwheels went out of fashion three centuries ago for very good reasons, that remain relevant to this day. Verities last a long time.
Energy crime against the humanity of the British people.
“As you can see, the index remained stable from 2015 to 2020, and then quickly recovered after the pandemic.”
Please, Noah, we know better than this. Stop using their language, there was no pandemic!
Otherwise, an excellent article. Thanks.
Another person that should know better is Russell Brand, he is always saying “since the pandemic”……If I catch him in Hay I will remind him, or chuck him out of the window.
The correct term (based on Event 201) would be plandemic of course. Maybe Noah used that and the spell check changed it …..? (Trying to be generous here).
Many options open, all of which would be better than doing what we are doing now:
Normalise relations with Russia
Drill for oil and gas in the UK, on and off shore
Build more nuclear power stations
Start digging for and burning coal again
Remove subsidies for and quotas for electric cars
All of these would IMO reduce gas prices
It’s almost as if our “energy policies” are designed for maximum destruction of the economy combined with maximum transfer of wealth to unproductive activities (windmills)
All because most European countries are vassal states of the US and are unwilling to admit that Russia was totally justified in their actions against Ukraine.
I remember watching EU MEPs voting down a full enquiry on the destruction of the Nord Stream Pipeline. Bunch of spineless eunuchs. They would call you a conspiracy theorist for blaming the US/NATO, but they don’t want to look into it.
Of course the other thing European authorities could do is lift their moratorium on fracking and produce their own gas from the vast shale resources across Northern Europe.
That way they would have domestic energy abundance, independent of Putin, Trump or Qatar.
They can only go higher and higher because there is nothing to bring them down. It isn’t just the severity of the winters. Last year was a year without a summer and this is likely to continue for decades. You need to think about this if you have any option to move out of north western Europe. Living under a fog canopy makes people sick just read about the Justinian darkness and plague – “the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during the whole year,”