The Implosion of ‘Green Ethics’
22 April 2025
by Ben Pile
When incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz first ran to be party chairman he pledged to cut the AfD's support in half. Seven years later he has doubled it instead, says Eugyppius.
Rachel Reeves cannot blame Donald Trump's trade war for the downgrade in the UK's growth prospects, the IMF has said, as it warns that Britain's inflation rate will be higher than in the US.
A Government climate adviser – a member of the Climate Change Committee, no less – who backed a tax on frequent flyers has racked up 40,000 air miles in a year by jetting to environmental conferences.
The nationalities of migrants with the highest rates of crime will be revealed in official league tables for the first time under plans due to be announced by the Government today.
Net Zero is the new Brexit, "where Parliament is so hopelessly out of touch with the country", Nigel Farage has said. Michael Deacon agrees: as people realise the true cost of eco-zealotry they are turning against it.
Shocking new statistical evidence has emerged that suggests the golden eagle could be on a wind turbine-induced glide path to extinction in the United States, as the annual death rate increase leaps nearly 50% since 2020.
'Green ethics' are imploding, says Ben Pile. Economic realities are forcing the question: is it 'ethical' to bankrupt yourself? Is it 'ethical' to make energy too expensive for people to use?
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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