- “Cops must ends witch hunts on free speech and focus on real crime, MPs warn” – MPs have insisted that cops must end the “pathetic” witch hunts on free speech and focus on real crime, reports the Sun.
- “How Rachel Reeves undermined Angela Rayner’s building blitz” – Angela Rayner’s homebuilding targets are under threat from soaring inflation and the Chancellor’s National Insurance raid, says the Telegraph.
- “Fewer benefits claimants face sanctions for refusing to work” – Fewer claimants are having their benefits cut after refusing to work, according to official figures, despite Labour’s pledge to tackle Britain’s joblessness crisis and boost employment, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lord Hermer was forced to reduce bonus after biggest cost claim in legal history” – The Attorney General was ordered to reduce his “no win no fee bonus” after being part of the biggest cost claim in British legal history, reveals the Telegraph.
- “‘Dartford Disneyland’ theme park disaster lands taxpayer with £5 million bill” – The taxpayer lost £5 million on a doomed attempt to create a £3.5 billion Disneyland rival on the Thames Estuary, reports the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage hits back at Keir Starmer as he claims PM ‘getting desperate’ in bid to tackle Reform” – Nigel Farage has hit out at Sir Keir after the PM accused the Reform leader of perpetuating “dangerous policies” in a major warning over the populist party, according to GB News.
- “Ant Middleton redoubles vow to become Mayor of London” – SAS tough guy Ant Middleton is doubling down on his bid to oust Sadiq Khan, claiming the embattled Mayor “has to go” with the city now one of the world’s murder capitals, reports the Mail.
- “‘BBC exposes its own bias against Reform UK in coverage of major policy’” – The BBC’s recent coverage of Reform UK’s Net Zero policy announcement is nothing short of a masterclass in bias and misinformation, says Lois Perry in the Express.
- “Hydrogen boilers are a waste of time, climate committee to warn Miliband” – The Government’s independent climate advisers are poised to tell ministers that burning hydrogen to heat millions of homes would be a waste of Britain’s already stretched resources, reports the Telegraph.
- “Miliband quango changes logo after being mocked for copying” – Ed Miliband’s Great British Energy has ditched its logo in under a year after getting roasted for nicking the icon of an ad agency, says the Telegraph.
- “Miliband accused of playing into hands of Putin with plan to concrete over Britain’s last gas wells” – Ed Miliband has been accused of “playing into Vladimir Putin’s hands” as he waves through a plan to plug Britain’s only shale gas wells with cement, according to the Telegraph.
- “EPCs to be used as a stick to beat us” – David Turver’s latest warns that the Government’s new Energy Performance Certificates reforms are less about energy efficiency and more about using regulations as a stick to beat homeowners into Net Zero compliance.
- “Britain depends on Norway for energy. Some Norwegians want to cut us off” – Tensions in the Nordics are rising as residents begrudge the cost of keeping Europe’s lights on, writes Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
- “It may be too late to save Germany from the economic abyss” – In the Telegraph, Liam Halligan warns that Germany’s economic collapse could cost Friedrich Merz the chancellorship unless he pulls off a major financial rebound.
- “CDU in driver’s seat after German election but coalition might be necessary” – Friedrich Merz is poised to become Germany’s next chancellor after exit polls predicted a convincing victory for his centre-Right Christian Democratic Union party, alongside a nationalist surge, according to BBC News.
- “Germany faces its worst nightmare – becoming France” – The German economy, the richest in the EU, has been the envy of Europe for decades. But things are now taking a turn for the worse, says James Crisp in the Telegraph.
- “How the humble heat pump pushed Germany to the far-Right” – The rigid Net Zero stance of Olaf Scholz’s coalition has proved to be electoral dynamite, says Mattie Brignal in the Telegraph.
- “BBC bosses to demand answers over Gaza film’s Hamas link” – Tim Davie and other BBC executives have demanded a meeting over the airing of a Gaza documentary presented by a Hamas minister’s son, reports the Telegraph.
- “The BBC is turning into a megaphone for Hamas” – The entire BBC organisation needs a root and branch cleansing of this tendency to whitewash a murderous, rapist, Islamist terror group, says Nicole Lampert in Spiked.
- “Taliban arrest British couple in their 70s for teaching mothers” – A British couple in their seventies have been arrested by the Taliban, apparently for teaching parenting skills to mothers over 30, according to the Sunday Times.
- “Terrorist arrested over France attack is unmasked as extremist” – The terrorist arrested for the stabbing attack on police in France has been identified as an extremist who had been attempted to be deported 10 times, according to the Mail.
- “Zelensky offers to step down in exchange for peace” – Volodymyr Zelensky is willing to “immediately” step down as President of Ukraine in exchange for peace or the country being given membership of Nato, reports ABC News.
- “The war hero, the Putin stooge and the champion boxer: who could replace Zelensky?” – With Ukraine’s President indicating he is willing to leave office, the Telegraph profiles the contenders to replace him.
- “Bad peace is better than good war” – It is good news for peace that President Trump is setting the record straight on the West’s war in Ukraine, says Michael J. Sutton for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Why Russia wants Ukraine to join the EU” – Moscow has vetoed Nato membership and foreign troops, but has its own reasons for encouraging its foe’s European ambitions, writes Kieran Kelly in the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week” – Elon Musk has told hundreds of thousands of US Government workers to explain what they accomplished over the past week or be forced to leave their jobs, reports ABC News.
- “Why we should worry about Tony Blair’s bromance with tech tycoon” – In the Mail, Mark Hookham warns that Tony Blair’s cozy connection with tech tycoon Larry Ellison could give Ellison the keys to a giant data empire – and your privacy.
- “‘Why should I let American AI pirates steal my work?’” – In the Mail, author Louis de Bernieres warns that AI is stealing creative work without consent, leaving writers’ livelihoods at risk.
- “Brazil judge orders suspension of Rumble platform amid censorship lawsuit” – Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ordered the suspension of the video-sharing platform Rumble over the company’s failure to comply with court orders, reports NTD.
- “Seventy Christians beheaded in Congo” – Seventy Christians have been found beheaded in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in what has been described as the latest devastating attack on believers in the north east of the country, according to Gript.
- “Slash benefits for those with ‘anxiety’ to boost defence cash – Tories” – The Tories have called for Britain’s “ballooning” welfare payments – such as benefits for those with anxiety – to be slashed to fund greater defence spending, reports the Mail.
- “Elderly struck down with flu at record rate after winter fuel raid” – Over-85s are being admitted to hospital at record rates with the Conservatives and Lib Dems blaming Labour’s winter fuel allowance cut, says the Telegraph.
- “Bird flu: owners ordered to keep birds indoors to stop spread” – All bird keepers in Northern Ireland are being ordered to keep their birds indoors from Monday in a bid to stop the spread of bird flu, reports BBC News.
- “#together Social Care campaign” – The Together Declaration Health and Social Care Campaign team is calling on the public, the scrutiny committee and MPs to take a hard look at the insights and warnings in their discussion paper on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
- “Covid Inquiry Module 4 revisited” – On the HART Substack, Dr Lisa Hutchinson’s review of the Covid Inquiry Module 4 exposes a shocking whitewash – burying evidence of vaccine harm and gaslighting the injured.
- “Covid vaccine victims left disabled and blind after taking shots” – The Mail speaks with five Americans who claim they were injured by Covid jabs following a bombshell report from Yale researchers on post-vaccine harms.
- “Woody Harrelson tears apart Anthony Fauci on Joe Rogan’s show” – Actor Woody Harrelson has accused Dr Anthony Fauci of doing some “extraordinarily evil sh**” during a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, reports the Mail.
- “Schools could face Sandie Peggie-style legal dispute, group warns Swinney” – John Swinney has been warned that schools could face a Sandie Peggie-style legal dispute over gender self-ID policies, reports the Herald.
- “Trans sports mafia’s secret plan to infiltrate sports” – The ECB is taking advice from activists who claim it’s a “myth” that trans women are taller, heavier and stronger, says the Mail.
- “Gender cannot be a get-out-of-jail card for violent men” – There’s a reason that some unstable narcissists choose to transition behind bars, writes Kathleen Stock in the Sunday Times.
- “The Queen of Woke just exposed the hypocrisy of the virtue-signalling Left” – Once a fierce advocate of identity politics, Ash Sarkar now seems to be repudiating the dogma, notes Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
- “Jeff Bezos must not milk James Bond dry like Disney did with Star Wars” – Ian Fleming’s creation remains some of the best intellectual property in the world – it must treated with respect, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “‘In five years, scientists predict we will have the first ice-free Arctic summer’” – A video on X has resurfaced of John Kerry’s 2009 climate prophecy – spoiler: he got it completely wrong.
"In five years, scientists predict we will have the first ice-free Arctic summer."
— James Melville
John Kerry predicts the future back in 2009. pic.twitter.com/CiUYSTacu2(@JamesMelville) February 23, 2025
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PM2.5 fine particulate matter maybe harmful to human health but I suspect not having food on the table is more harmful to human health or am I being stupid?
Another example of a western WEF controlled government!
PM2.5 is, essentially, yet another modelling scam. From the fact that choking animals with diesel fumes unsurprisingly kills them, comes the theory that lower concentrations of such particulates are proportionately harmful to humans, and models for exposure based on proxies like post-code distance from a main road, leading to predictions – or rather speculations since they are never checked in the real world – of excess deaths in city dwellers (or in this case, I suppose, country dwellers).
At no stage is it demonstrated that any real individual has died from a detected intake of PM2.5 – or indeed that any such individuals exist anywhere in the world. But once you’ve persuaded the world that diesel fumes are killing city-dwellers, and that wood fires are decimating underdeveloped nations, you only have to identify such particles in relation to some politically useable substance to enforce whatever policies are profitable.
Large Malawi study found no respiratory benefit from clean cookstoves (but a major reduction in burns) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161026081142.htm
No, no. You don’t understand. Everyone knows than PM2.5 pollution is incredibly deadly. So deadly that average age at death in the UK has not increased almost continuously since 1922 (the last time we had a border change), apart from a couple of wars. Oh wait. Yes it has increased, a lot.
Anyway, ignore that. What this consultation process does is explain away the fact that there are almost no differences between respiratory mortality in rural and city areas.
See? ULEZ Goooood.
Don’t expect to see this covered in the BBC State Broadcaster’s output. ‘Trusted News Initiative’ you see.
Fires? Interesting because a wood fire will not produce significant PM2.5s because the fuel is not finely divided enough to do so. They may produce some soot (usually not a lot) but it’s particles are much bigger than 2.5 microns, more like 250 microns. The mechanism of diesel PM 2.5s is because that is about the size of the atomised injected fuel droplets. Never let fact stand in the way of a good story. Petrol injection also does not produce any but the reason for that is obvious so I will leave it to the student to answer with a little thought for himself (you can add her, it, them, etc. but that is just poor English!).
I would imagine that current levels are far far far below the level at which it would constitute harm to public health.
There is no decrease in air quality, just an increase in sensitivity of instruments able to measure it. In fact our air has never been fresher.
These are rounding error particulates and don’t affect anything.
The real goal is 15 minutes areas, no cars, complete control by government over the sheeple or in the Muzzie’s case, the Infidel ape and pig.
I hope I have a michelin star restaurant in my 15 minute area so that I can have a 6 course taster menu of lovely well prepared insects, now that’s something to look forward to.
A brief search on the web yields the following from Our World in Data – “How many people die from air pollution”.
“indoor air pollution – caused by people living in energy poverty – is one of the largest contributors to outdoor air pollution”
About half of all deaths result from indoor air pollution, so my irreverent conclusion based on the current article is – don’t keep your cows indoors.
On a more serious note, green propagandists should re-evaluate their thinking about green and renewable energy, since energy poverty due to banning fossil fuels would arguably cause a greater numbers of deaths compared with renewable sources.
I had no idea that rural communities had such high mortality rates from all the PM2.5 they are being exposed to. Presumably DEFRA have these figures, right??
Definitely. They are the experts.
Department for the
Eradication of
Farming and
Rural
Activities
as a farmer friend of our explained…
It’s scienz, init.
Or ‘The $cience.’
How many of you are sick to death of this interfering money grabbing set of self appointed elite?, Not only do they take increasingly eye watering amounts of money from us in Council tax, VAT,general taxation, levy’s they put onto our fuel bills, the list goes on. Since the Covid 3 years the Public sector numbers and its payroll has increased dramatically meanwhile the Private sector employed has reduced from pre Covid levels, and what do we get for all this money? increased interference and ruination of our freedom and lives.
Why are we continuing to pay for this? its insanity like Neil Oliver said in a recent clip, its like we are being held by the Krays protection money, at the threat of prosecution or worse, but unlike the Krays no protection.
If there are enough of us and I am willing to join a group, but it needs thousands of us, lets just stop paying the council tax, the tax when they demand it on returns, what would they do? they can’t jail everyone. I can think of no other way that is a peaceful resistance to stopping this World group of meglomaniacs from trying to direct and control every part of our lives, How do we start this?
Up to a third of the council tax we pay goes towards their pensions.
In every respect green ideology seeks to remove prosperity and as a direct result of that they will remove well being, lower life expectancy and health. They call it “Sustainable Development”. Doesn’t that sound like a very nice thing? Until you realise that availability and cost of energy correlates perfectly with HDI (Human Development Index) This article is specifically about food, but ofcourse you cannot look at anything green in isolation. Wind turbines, smart meters, banning of coal and getting rid of gas central heating and petrol and diesel cars etc etc etc are all part of the one agenda. It is all connected. An article in my local paper the other day was encouraging people not to own anything but to borrow it. They suggested that everyone eg owning a lawnmower was a bad idea and that one lawnmower would suffice for the whole street. ————Wake up people, you need to see exactly where this eco communism is going.
“Wake up people, you need to see exactly where this eco communism is going.”
A mass kill off and complete enslavement for the survivors.
UK population according to Deagel – 25 million by 2025.
Absolutely Huxley.. and if I remember correctly.. 500million was the aim wasn’t it.. living in harmony with nature of course.. give or take a few luxury yachts, private jets, and ocean front mansions that is..
Correct. That was the figure on the Georgia Guidestones.
We should be left alone with all our faults to let natural selection & Nature take their course ! We don’t need any of this WEF climate bullsh1t which is far more of a threat to life , coupled with all the other type of fear porn we keep enduring ! Let’s F- -K them all off & breath easy .
Find out all about PM2.5 at Steve Milloy’s site https://junkscience.com/. He’s been debunking the PM2.5 myth for years
https://junkscience.com/?s=PM2.5
“EPA and PM2.5: No Science, No Bodies, Just Fraud“
The brutal approach by the Dutch government caused a bit of an uprising so Fishy and Co have been given a different set of plans to work to – something more British and slightly hands off with a bit more warmth and cuddle factor.
“It’s all for the benefit of national health. We really want to look after you. Honest.”
Oh how apt is the nickname ‘Fishy’ eh!.. Fishy by name and fishy by nature..
Great food reset means mass starvation
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Oh look a Cow ! Danger Danger ! 8 Wheeler Gravel trucks on HS2 ,No Problamo ! The Chunts with power are drunk on it !!
Do we at all, perhaps, see the ‘obesity crisis’ as being the softening-up process to justify us having less to eat – to save the Planet?
Or is that just another ‘conspiracy theory’?
I found the consultation at the DEFRA web site and have completed it. I expect they will hate my comments, but how else is one supposed to stop these morons from making ever more pointless regulations that hamstring everyone in the business of making a living.
Imperial College modelling eh? So a load of hysterical old bollocks then.
This is the first I’ve heard of the consultation (in the Daily Sceptic email of 22 April, so too late to
respond). How appalling. I find it all beyond depressing.
Me too. I haven’t seen or heard anything elsewhere AFAICR – about the so called‘consultation’.
My observation:
PM2.5s are not harmful to human health, at least not in any reasonable quantity. The biological science for this is 100% clear, mammals have a very effective mechanism to remove particulate matter from our lungs, invented millions of years ago. How do they suppose camels in deserts with sandstorms survive? Lungs contain a mucus film over the internal surfaces which traps any dust particles of pretty much any size. Mucus continuously moves upwards out of lungs, into the throat and is swallowed where the digestive system eventually expels it. Of course there have been a few experiments to check this and so far NO ONE has shown the presence of particles moving across the air/blood barrier, and even if a few did, they will be filtered out of the blood by the kidneys. Human Biology has been eliminated from the school curriculum, except sex of course, and even this is not taught as science.
Something else to note, the whole ULEZ, Euro6 scam is based on these PM2.5s, and we know that is fraudulent, to make us buy new cars, and only electric ones at that! But even electric cars still have tyres (which shed particulate matter) and brakes with friction surfaces (which shed particulate matter) so what is the principle to say that these are the slightest bit less polluting? Or any experimental data? Or anything except nonsense?
There is zero case for any of it, certainly on the basis of dangerous air pollution. Real Science says so! If Khan says it, it must be a lie, he cannot even answer simple questions on his policies!