- “Asylum seeker declared a child… despite having receding hairline” – An asylum seeker whom the Home Office determined to be at least 23 years old, with a receding hairline and thick facial hair, has been declared a child by judges, according to the Mail.
- “Sri Lankan sex offender allowed to stay in Britain because he is gay” – A convicted Sri Lankan sex offender has been allowed to remain in Britain because he is gay and would be at risk of persecution if he was returned to his home country, reports the Telegraph.
- “Home Office refuses to reveal number of deportations halted by ECHR” – Border Security Minister Angela Eagle says it would be a “disproportionate cost” to provide data on the number of deportations of foreign criminals or illegal migrants that have been stopped as a result of ECHR claims, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘Multiple’ buses explode in ‘suspected terror attack’ in Israel” – Israel has narrowly avoided mass carnage after three empty buses exploded into fireballs, reports the Mail.
- “The murder of the Bibas family: a crime that shames humanity” – In the Free Mind, Laura Dodsworth lays bare the unspeakable horror of Hamas’s murder of Shiri Bibas and her sons.
- “Nandy demands urgent talks with BBC over Hamas ‘propaganda’” – The Culture Secretary says she will raise concerns with BBC bosses about a documentary on Gaza that was narrated by the son of a Hamas official, according to BBC News.
- “At long last, we have the BBC’s smoking gun moment” – A documentary purporting to show the horrors of the Gaza Strip may leave viewers misinformed about Israel’s intentions, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “What sort of idiot thinks the BBC is biased towards Israel?” – Pro-Palestine vandals clearly have not watched one second of the BBC’s coverage, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “‘It’s not racist to ask who is committing rapes says broadcaster Alex Phillips” – On the latest Planet Normal podcast, Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson discuss broadcaster and journalist Alex Phillips’s new documentary on serious sexual crime in the UK.
- “Angela Rayner under scrutiny over how long she worked as a home help” – Angela Rayner has become the latest Cabinet minister to face questions over their employment history after conflicting accounts emerged around how long she worked as a carer, according to the Mail.
- “Miliband’s Net Zero promises are false, Tony Blair’s think tank warns” – Ed Miliband has been warned that investing in green technology is unlikely to reverse the long-term decline of British industry, reports the Express.
- “Mercedes to cut costs as electric car sales plunge” – Mercedes-Benz has announced a cost-cutting drive as profits plunged by nearly a third amid a slowdown in its electric car business, says Fortune.
- ‘Blunt’ electric car targets put thousands of jobs at risk, warn unions” – Union chiefs have warned that thousands of jobs are at risk if the Government refuses to water down “blunt” electric car targets, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain faces Trump tariffs if it does not ease free speech restrictions, says Nigel Farage” – JD Vance says letting in “millions” of unvetted immigrants is the biggest threat to Europe and relations with the White House, according to the Telegraph.
- “JD Vance was right that ‘there is no room for firewalls’ and if the CDU is not careful, it may well prove his point with its own destruction” – JD Vance was right: the CDU’s obsession with the firewall will either doom them to irrelevance or force them into a humiliating surrender to the Left, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Ukraine could get instant Nato membership if Russia breaks peace deal” – Ukraine could be granted instant Nato membership if Russia violates the terms of the peace deal being negotiated by Donald Trump, reports the Telegraph.
- “Musk echos Trump and says Zelensky is ‘despised’” – Elon Musk claims that Volodymyr Zelensky is “despised” by the Ukrainian people and is “feeding off the dead bodies” of his countrymen, according to the Telegraph.
- “Britain has the worst government at the most dangerous possible time” – Zelensky is not a dictator, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph. But Britain can only offer Ukraine fake outrage and pledges it cannot afford.
- “White House reveals Trump’s personal problem with Zelensky” – President Trump is said to be “very frustrated” with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, as relations between the two leaders appear to have reached a new low, according to the Mail.
- “Putin is watching Trump attack Zelensky with glee” – The Kremlin will be delighted by Trump’s sulphurous attacks on Zelensky – and the US President’s seeming willingness to throw Ukraine under the bus, says Lisa Haseldine in the Spectator.
- “The cruellest thing about Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s right” – The Spectator’s Freddy Gray argues that, while Trump’s rhetoric on Ukraine is offensive, his assessment – that the West has failed, Zelensky isn’t blameless and only Trump can end the war – may not be entirely wrong.
- “‘I would welcome back Russia and Putin to the Olympics if Trump restores peace’” – Lord Coe has opened the door for Putin and Russia to end their sporting isolation if Trump succeeds in his plan to stop the war in Ukraine, reports the Telegraph.
- “A game-changer for liberty: President Trump’s latest Executive Order unleashes the DOGE revolution!” – In WUWT?, Charles Rotter hails Trump’s latest Executive Order as a full-throttle assault on the administrative state.
- “Luis Rubiales guilty of sexual assault” – Former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales has been found guilty of sexual assault for kissing a player without her consent after the Women’s World Cup final in 2023, reports Sky News. But its a bit of a stretch.
- “Luis Rubiales and Spain’s war on machismo” – It seems a pity that the Spanish Government can’t bring itself to fight corruption with the same enthusiasm that it shows in the struggle against machismo, writes Jim Lawley in the Spectator.
- “Social workers too busy for assisted dying panels, Leadbeater told” – Social work chiefs say the sector is “at capacity” and will need more funding to meet the needs of the assisted dying Bill, according to the Telegraph.
- “The real truth about breast cancer screenings that you must know” – Women are being lied to about the benefits of breast screening, and not being told at all about the real risks, warns Dr Susan Bewley in the Mail.
- “Covid vaccine injury study published on preprint server because the mainstream medical journals refused to publish it” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch highlights the Yale Listen study, which found significant immune and neurological differences in 42 post-vaccine injury patients.
- “The end of college vaccine mandates” – For Brownstone Institute, Lucia Sinatra covers President Trump’s Executive Order halting federal funding to all schools that impose COVID-19 vaccine mandates on students.
- “NY vaccine clinics called ambulances to be ‘on standby’” – Six weeks into the mRNA rollout, FOIA’d data from New York reveals a shocking surge in emergency calls from vaccine clinics and frantic requests for ambulances “on standby”, writes Dr Pierre Kory on his Substack.
- “JD Vance admits perhaps up to 111 million Americans had painful reactions to Covid shots” – On Substack, Bill Rice Jr. highlights JD Vance’s shocking admission that over 111 million Americans may have suffered painful Covid jab side effects.
- “Censorious Cureus” – Zenodo nuked Miki Gibo’s updated paper after its Cureus retraction, citing a Reuters fact check – another case of lazy editorial censorship, says Anandamide on Substack.
- “Why progressive activists feel superior” – In the Spectator, Patrick West highlights the Guardian’s belated admission that progressives dismiss conservatives as immoral while masking their own intolerance as compassion.
- “The Doge department documents its recent hisory.”
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I’m sold. Now to convince the millions of zombies out there who believe that every hot day is further proof of man made climate change.
When we listen to politicians on TV, many of us don’t believe a word they say. Apparently they are less trusted today than ever before. On the Economy, on Immigration, Foreign Policy, Education Policy, etc etc etc we don’t trust them and don’t believe them. Which brings me the issue of “climate change”. Almost all climate change science is funded by ———–Governments. The very same governments that we don’t trust and don’t believe. ———–Ah but people will tell you, this is all about science and governments are simply following what the science says. ——-Nope. Government dictates the science. I will quote from Michael Hart’s book “Hubris” which explains it perfectly. —-“Progressives at the United Nations and their supporters around the world had long sought a powerful narrative with which to advance their ambitious agenda of global governance. Harvesting the growing appetite among western environmentalists for a concerted campaign to halt and reverse the perceived rape of the planet could provide such a narrative. The environmental issue, particularly its climate dimension, was ideally suited to becoming the perfect organising principle of the UN’s campaign to eradicate global injustice and inequality by pursuing Sustainable Development, which argues that environmental degradation cannot be addressed without addressing the human activities that give rise to it. The solutions to these problems from the perspective of the UN and its Progressive ideas lay in Central Planning, State Control and Global Governance”———–ie.The Politics came first, and the science hijacked in support of it.
There is no Climate Crisis
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“Some is caused by humans, mainly through out of control population growth and the resulting destruction of cooling forests and construction of huge concrete heat-trapping mega-cities designed to accommodate said population growth.”
I have asked you previously to provide proof for these assertions, to date you have ignored me.
Proof please.
You yourself have previously conceded there is some local weather variance due to man’s activities.
Take a look at today’s Met Office temperature map of the UK. https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/maps-and-charts/temperature-map#?model=ukmo-ukv&layer=temperature&bbox=%5B%5B40.413496049701955,-46.1865234375%5D,%5B65.10914820386476,38.18847656250001%5D%5D Once again London is the warmest place. It’s the warmest place in the UK 90% of the time, day and night. It’s a concrete heat trapping mega-metropolis.
Now add the extra 2,000,000,000 people net population growth in the last 23 years. They require the equivalent of 200 Londons to accommodate them and most of them are in warm or hot climates where there will be even more of an Urban Island Heat Trapping effect.
Bear in mind that the Climate Fanatics quote tiny temperature variances of fractions of a degree as “proof” of a climate crisis. If we’re chopping down forests on a massive scale and building more heat trapping structures there is going to be some of your admitted “local weather variance” in multiple locations, sometimes on a grand scale (think destruction of 1000’s of square miles of Amazon jungle), add these together and you get a little global human-caused climate change.
You need to read the whole post and not just cherry pick. We cannot defeat the treachery that is Net Zero by denying any human caused climate variance, we must find a way of convincing people that piling our wealth into stopping beneficial CO2 emissions will end up killing billions of people. To do that we must shame the Mainstream Media into admitting these facts.
On Tuesday evening, I went along to my local council’s full meeting to ask them about Agenda 21. My first question – at the beginning of my generously permitted 3 minute speech allowance of democratic rights – was whether any of the council knew what Agenda 21 was. None of them did. I carried on with my speech somewhat astounded, as were some of my more vocal SitP compadres, veering into the area of climate change. The council chair – not even a mayor these days – was scathing in her reply. She could hardly see what this all had to do with council business. I mean why wasn’t I asking about dog litter or street lighting? I wanted to say that THIS is council business, it’s what you’re doing right now with all your sustainability reports and green action plans and what have you, but they just don’t get it. Furthermore, they don’t want to get it. She cut me off before I had the chance to finish anyway. Most of my group were outraged and we all walked out…well, I had to sheepishly return briefly as I forgot my jacket was on the back of my chair but we will demand a council debate. Councils up and down the length and breadth of the land declared Climate Emergencies in 2019: very few of them knew why apart from…IPCC, innit? Ignorance and corruption are pervasive in local councils. All the Nobel Prize winning scientists in the world could dissent with the mainstream narrative but it would make no difference to this intractable, unmovable, unimaginative lot. This is the small-minded reality of our local governments and how Agenda 21 will be slowly rolled out. I thought that tackling local government was the way to go but we have no real democracy there either. Makes me understand why every major revolt in this country came to naught. Still, we go on…
“Ignorance and corruption are pervasive in local councils. All the Nobel Prize winning scientists in the world could dissent with the mainstream narrative but it would make no difference to this intractable, unmovable, unimaginative lot. This is the small-minded reality of our local governments and how Agenda 21 will be slowly rolled out. I thought that tackling local government was the way to go but we have no real democracy there either. Makes me understand why every major revolt in this country came to naught. Still, we go on…”
I have pointed this out more than once Aethelred.
To make matters worse the group I am associated with are also largely ignorant of Agenda 21 / 30 and to make matters worse don’t want to know.
Ignoramuses fighting the grifting ignorants.
Yes, I know you have, HP, but it needs spelling out occasionally although in this echo chamber I wonder who I am spelling it out to! If your local group don’t want to know about A21 then I imagine it is the wrong group to be part of. A21 is the control plan for the world. Maybe they – your group – could be encouraged to look at Rosa Koire’s presentation to the New Hampshire legislature in 2011. It’s in 4 30 minute parts on youtube and is very enlightening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8-bcAwc28s&t=49s
Thanks Aethelred.
The lock step behaviour of our woke local councils is indeed very depressing. Probably many councillors are thrilled to conform to the brainwashed ideology that they have sucked up over the last 30 years and now think that they are saving the planet with their flower boxes. Money is also behind these illogical , disastrous policies, from the Government (taxpayers) and probably elsewhere?Corruption is everywhere.
My local paper reads like a Party Political Broadcast for the Green Party. But actuall all parties are Green now aren’t they. As you say, many of these low quality council people are only follwing the top down narrative and have little clue as to what the are actually talking about. They would have great difficulty explaining anything about energy or climate to a five year old, yet our standard of living and well being, our access to affordable energy etc is in the hands of these imbeciles. ——-Grant Schapps who is currently the Net Zero and Energy Security Minister was asked about a month ago on GB News if heat pumps are any good —–His absurd reply was —-“I don’t know, but I am having one fitted so I will find out!——-WHAT? What a blithering idiot.——-Him and his silly government want to rip out our fantastic gas central heating and give us all a stupid heat pump and he doesn’t know if they are any good? In Scotland the SNP are threatening to not let you sell your house unless you install a heat pump at huge expense……We are actually on Agenda 2030 now, which is why you will see all of these changes like no petrol or diesel cars and other green initiatives all given the date of 2030, which all emanates from the UN and filters its way all the way down to the numbskulls in local government
Very interesting article by Dr Harris, however, there are a number of errors that indicate that the paper has not been reviewed.
For example, referencing world population he states that “According to the UN, this is expected to increase to 11–15 million people by the end of this century”, should be billions, and “Neanderthal man had become extinct in Europe by c.1200 B.C”, more like 40,000 BC, and some of the citations do not link to the appropriate article.
This is a pity as it undermines confidence in the quality of the other information presented.
11 to 15 million may be correct if the globalist de-population measures run out of control.
Sounds like Ellis and Palmer
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987116300305
co2 bottoms around 180 ppm in coldest times. Grasslands/tundra die off. Winds whip up dust which lands on ice sheets, raising albedo to help melt them during next Milankovitch warm period. CO2 rises with a bit of a lag until it runs out of puff around 280 ppm. Natural variation.
Whilst we all love a bit of Vitamin D. The look of utter forlorn despair on the faces of the BBC weather forecasters is a joy. They are desperate to frighten us with red maps and an uncontrollable nature is laughing at them. It’s a look that reminds me of Dimblebys face when we voted for Brexit. Delicious
I just discovered ‘Milankovitch cycles’ is the new trigger term for the ‘fact’ checkers.
Another brilliant article, Chris. It’s well worth taking the time to read through the whole paper published by Dr Harris. No great surprise to note he received zero funding for it, and is himself now retired. He’s got nothing to lose by telling the truth.
I would like to know what “carbon dioxide traps heat” means and how it is achieved. It is utter drivel. Heat cannot be trapped because it is defined as thermal energy transferring from one location to another. Thermal energy could be trapped, and a thermos flask is an example of the best we can do, but it should be obvious that the thermal energy that is trapped cannot cause any heating elsewhere. Trapped energy in the natural world, particularly the atmosphere and oceans is impossible. The only example in nature of trapped energy is fossil fuels and as we all know they have to be burned to release the energy. The supposed science of global warming is a creation of idiots who want to destroy civilisation.
Many news websites censor comments if you mention dissenting opinions to the ‘settled science’ idea that current climate change is anthropogenic caused.