The Government has quietly admitted that low-carbon technologies essential to hitting Net Zero are more expensive than using fossil fuels – despite Ed Miliband repeatedly insisting Net Zero will bring energy bills down.
With Iran and Israel at war, the world's energy nerves are fraying. Central to this anxiety is the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow strip of water crucial to the world's oil industry and which Iran is threatening to close.
EVs suffer more breakdowns than other types of car and are the least likely to be fixed at the roadside, new research shows. Cost, range, reliability – EVs are worse on every metric, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
Students should be ready to be shocked and offended at university, Government free speech champion Arif Ahmed has said, as he warned universities they face fines from August if they fail to uphold free speech.
J.K. Rowling has been "radicalised by TERFs", Sir Stephen Fry has claimed, as he branded his former friend a "lost cause". Trans people are "hurting and being abominably treated", he said.
Ed Miliband is confident he's "winning the fight for Net Zero". His assurance is misplaced, says Ben Pile. It's based on a growth in 'green jobs', but they come at the cost of entire sectors in other parts of the economy.
From Weaving Our Own Justice in Colombia to Theatre-Making in Kenya, there seems no end to the international research projects lavishly funded by you, the hard-working taxpayer. Charlotte Gill compiles her top 10.
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.
