Maternity Hospital Evacuated After Solar Panel Fire
24 May 2025
by Will Jones
News Round-Up
25 May 2025
by Will Jones
Solar farm failures were likely behind the blackouts in Spain and Portugal, Spain's national grid operator has said – as Tony Blair comes out against Starmer's Net Zero plans and the phasing out of fossil fuels.
The power outage in Spain and Portugal wasn't caused by extreme weather, but by an over-reliance on wind and solar. If the UK continues on its headlong path to Net Zero, we can expect similar failures.
Why do we fail to deport those whom we should deport? It's due in the end, says Dr David McGrogan, to an excess of pity. We are pitying ourselves into disorder and social decay. We need to be willing not to be nice.
Rachel Reeves is set to bring in a milkshake tax to cut obesity levels despite the failure of the 2018 sugar tax that has seen obesity levels accelerate rather than fall. What happened to no tax rises for working people?
Mark Carney's Liberals have won the Canadian election and a fourth term in Government as Pierre Poilievre is projected to lose his seat despite scoring the highest Conservative vote since 1988 in a result blamed on Trump.
A reliance on Net Zero energy – solar and wind power – left Spain and Portugal vulnerable to the mass blackouts engulfing the region, experts have said.
Reform is favourite to win the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, overturning Labour's 14,700 majority. Why? It might have something to do with having the nation's third-highest number of asylum seekers, says Steven Tucker.
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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