- “One year on, we still haven’t learnt the lessons of lockdown failure” – The apparatus that was so eager to apply restrictions last Christmas is still there, ready to pounce again, warns Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Cardiologist calls for an end to mNRA booster shots – as teen, 18, tells how her reaction to the jab saw her miss her Year 12 exams: ‘I’ve had 60 to 70 in my practice who’ve had similar reactions’” – A top Sydney cardiologist has called for an end to the use of mRNA vaccines like Pfizer. “These mRNA vaccines are very pro-inflammatory,” Dr. Ross Walker told the Mail.
- “Xi, Covid and seasonal schadenfreude” – Xi Jinping is facing down his nemesis, and the pesky, invisible speck is winning, writes Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
- “‘Deadly cancer timebomb’ as thousands more than expected killed by the illness since pandemic” – The Telegraph reports on calls for a dedicated minister to be appointed to tackle the ‘growing emergency’ with the same urgency as the Covid vaccine rollout.
- “CoronaVax safety in the Netherlands: Update 2” – Dr. Robert Malone with an update of Dr. Theo Schetters’ survey of public data from the Netherlands.
- “Government experts oppose downgrading Covid, citing excess cardio deaths” – Guy Gin reports that Japan’s Covid Response Advisory Board experts have advised against downgrading Covid by pointing to the non-Covid cardiac deaths, which they imply are caused by the virus.
- “Covid Vaccines: A Reality Check (II)” – The Swiss Doctor’s latest update, with lots of useful info and links, though the attempt to blame Covid rather than the vaccines for most of the excess heart deaths is not so convincing.
- “Biggest North Sea producer refuses to drill new oil wells because of windfall tax” – Harbour Energy is refusing to bid for new U.K. oil and gas wells and reviewing its investments in response to the Government’s tax raid on the sector, the Telegraph reports.
- “Stop using equality laws to restrict free speech, universities warned” – Susan Lapworth, Chief Executive of the Office for Students, said that “too often” universities are curtailing free speech by “leaning more fully” into their equality duties “than the law supports”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Are we ruled by midwits?” – There are few reasons for optimism, says Dr. Noah Carl.
- “The Cambridge Dictionary pretends that a woman is a man” – Laura Dodsworth suggests we’re “going through the looking glass when dictionaries make up meanings”.
- “A world of our own making” – “What we call wokery does not have a proper ideological base because it is incoherent and often contradictory,” writes Rod Liddle in the Speccie. “Instead, we have created it unwittingly, without thinking, over the past 50 or 60 years and as such only have ourselves to blame.”
- “‘This is Nicola Sturgeon’s poll tax’: J.K. Rowling calls SNP’s controversial Gender Recognition Reform Bill ‘the biggest assault on rights of women and girls’ in her lifetime and compares it to contentious Thatcherite policy” – The Harry Potter author has been outspoken in her opposition of the bill, which will make it easier for transgender people to change their legal sex, the Mail reports.
- “In Whitehall, civil servants reign over ministers” – David Frost writes in the Telegraph that Government departments are impossible to control, since politicians have little influence over officials.
- “The demonisation of Elon Musk” – Laurie Wastell in Spiked says free speech is not a ‘far right’ value.
- “The coming crackdown on homeschooling” – The Minister for Woke Indoctrination is still intent on undermining educational freedom, according to Gareth Sturdy in Spiked.
- “Dr. Aseem Malhotra on Andrew Bridgen MP’s call to halt the Covid vaccines” – Watch the leading cardiologist discuss with Mark Dolan on GB News the issues raised by Andrew Bridgen in his recent Commons speech calling for Covid vaccinations to be halted over safety concerns.
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550 mile range in my diesel Audi.
5 mins to fill it.
Heater on, fast as a like.
Plants get free CO2 to eat too.
Plus 12 year black kid in the Congo didn’t have to go down a mine to get the stuff that makes the silly EV work
850 on a tankful in my Renault Trafic. Heater or a/c full on
450+ in my little Hyundai i10 .. with heater, lights and radio on. £30 pa road tax; cheap to insure.
EVs are simply not a practical idea for long-distance driving. But perhaps that’s the whole point. They want us either not to travel far, or to use public transport and ditch private vehicles altogether. Remember the old prediction that people will own nothing, and be happy.
And the most galling thing is that all this inconvenience isn’t going to have the slightest beneficial effect on the climate.
Just like the attacks on Farmers harvest (pun intended) very little. This seems to be part of the Agenda 2030 push to Build Back better.
Or ‘Extract Money Faster’
“EVs are simply not a practical idea..”
You could have stopped there. If they were we would have been driving them for decades instead of ICEVs.
And you wouldn’t need to subsidise them with taxpayers cash or use taxpayers money to provide charging points.
Recall of MPs Act 2015:https://notonthebeeb.co.uk/so/c8PDZE4U1?languageTag=en&cid=426765f9-8b6f-43e7-9ca1-b318db924f5c
£1.12 per kWh is a rip off, if you convert the thermal content of petrol at roughly 9 kWh per litre & guesstimate the efficiency of your engine at around 30%. It’s like paying out £3.50 a litre.
Incidentally, at todays prices my petrol car averages about 9p per mille, with most fuel being bought from ASDA – and a lot of the total is longish M road trips.
The whole “Green Energy” thing is a rip-off. Pay more and get less. (If it’s available, that is. And with unreliables such as wind and solar, that’s not guaranteed.)
The huge question is will TPTB allow us to continue to nurse our ICE cars for as long as we can manage? Or will there be a huge bunch of taxes, ULEZ schemes and restrictions on spare parts so as to ‘drive’ us off the road?
If we are allowed to keep them going? I think there will be a big industry in keeping old ICE cars on the road. But if they force the issue and make it EVs or nothing then it is a dismal outlook. I suspect that new technologies will come along for transportation but the current generation of EVs will spell the end of happy family leisure motoring. At best us hoi-polloi may have a cheap low range Chinese EV for local utility travel.
I’m sure the easiest thing for TPTB would be to target fuel supplies. If they can find a way to stop us getting supplies of petrol and diesel, then it’s basically game over for the ICE vehicle.
And there was me thinking the Government are there to facilitate the will of the electorate!
Oh no, it’s there to shape the nation according to its own will. But first it has to hoodwink enough of the electorate into thinking that they both have the same interests.
What a quaint notion!
Let’s face it – if you remove personal transport then the leisure industry is dead. Unemployment, no tax income follows. Think of all the places that are not reachable by public transport. Think of all those who support motor vehicles who will now be unemployed. The hit to the government finances would make Rachel from Account’s imaginary black hole real by many times more.
Mileage with the heating off is not the proper mileage though. It is like saying my plate of steak and chips will fill me up but only if I eat 3 Kitkats first.
The British writer Patrick Hamiltion wrote about the horror of the motorcar. He is almost completely forgotten these days but his novels are well worth reading. Hangover Square, The Slaves of Solitude. He lives on though in one sense and that is through a play he wrote called Gas Light. There was a good Ingrid Bergman film of it. This term has found its way into modern political discourse, gaslighting, although its meaning has been distorted slightly.
One thing I like about the Brits, the common people, is that they never get all enthusiastic about a new technology like the Yanks do. They might adpot it eventually, usually out of laziness and vacantness but there isn’t any expectation that all of this crap could ever make life better. Although I have read horrible stories in educational supplements about how teachers are applauding the fact that every child in their class has an electronic tablet. Basically a zombie machine and you hear that parent give phones to children as young as ten. This is horrific just slightly less horrific than the demoniac smiles of the Yanks selling this crap.
The number of mobile phones per capita far outreached that in the USA in the 1990s.
The cost per unit of electricity obviously varies depending on which type of tariff you’re on but is at least 40p/kwh so charging the author’s Ford at home would work out as about the same cost per mile as his Honda Civic. Therefore it would be impossible to recoup the massive extra cost of the Ford. Proof that EVs are only for the well off.
It would be interesting to compare the cost per mile of an EV versus a petrol or diesel for urban driving and see if the costs work out about the same as motorway driving. Driving at speed means far more air resistance hence higher energy use per mile but urban driving is often stop start. Accelerating uses far more energy than driving at a constant speed and a lot of this energy is lost when braking so driving in traffic may result in roughly the same energy use per mile as motorway driving.
The nail in the coffin is the cost of battery replacement.
It astounds me that anyone chooses to buy an EV – apart from company car drivers who have to get one and gain some tax advantages.
“if you regularly cover high mileage in an EV, you need to travel when everyone else isn’t to avoid queuing at chargers.”
Au contraire, I see all the BEVVERS travelling in groups. It’s so they have fellow BEVVERS to socialise with while they wait together for two hours to charge their BEVs not too quickly to avoid damaging the batteries. They also get to share enlightening, heartwarming stories about how well they are saving the planet. And they MUST be friends, because fighting over chargers isn’t a very planet friendly look. Too much CO2 is emitted when you fight.
A bevvy of electric car drivers.
“Every cloud has a silver lining though. Your correspondent predicts an impending boomtime for old style garages and the market in spare parts for petrol cars for years to come.”
The Government will simply outlaw cars over a certain age, 12 years perhaps, and maybe make it illegal to sell spares apart from brake pads – all with no reference to Parliament of course.
Drugs are illegal but people get very rich selling them without too much problem.
”To eke out the range I travel everywhere with the heater off, which currently demands a substantial coat, hat and gloves.”
Yes prior to the 1970s cars required that, and many afterwards too for a number of years.
I do so love technological progress.
James May a few years back showed that the range of battery cars had barely increased since the 1890s. Yes, they are more comfortable. Yes, they go much faster….for a short while.
That’s the funniest bit for me – EV’s are not new tech. Sure lithium ion cells and 0-60 times in a few seconds is newish (and pointless day to day), however the electric BEV is over 100 years old… and we ditched them for petrol and diesel powered vehicles… until governments started bribing people with subsidies and tax breaks to start buying them again