- “Ten myths told by Covid experts now debunked” – Dr. Marty Makary in news.com.au with the greatest hits of official misinformation.
- “China should pay reparations if Covid leaked from a lab” – The announcement from the U.S. Government appears to be having its desired effect as the Telegraph‘s Matthew Lynn joins calls for punitive measures against China.
- “Who fact-checks the fact-checkers?” – Asks Laura Dodsworth, as she notes that the U.S. Energy Department says the COVID-19 virus most likely leaked from the Wuhan lab after all.
- “Ron DeSantis on Florida’s Covid Response” – The Brownstone Institute reviews a political biography that describes DeSantis’s journey to lockdown enlightenment and is “honest, frank, exciting, accurate and an overall excellent read”.
- “Neonatal death inquiry in Scotland gets underway” – The recent surges in Scottish neonatal deaths are now being investigated – but the inquiry has refused even to consider whether the vaccines played a role because they are already known to be “safe”, reports HART.
- “Don’t believe those who claim science proves masks don’t work” – The Cochrane review of the efficacy of masks is “deeply flawed”, says Lucky Tran in the Guardian. “That hasn’t stopped some from touting it.” Oh dear.
- “My Response to ‘Panicking Paul’” – Thorsteinn Siglaugsson recounts how he was able to red pill a friend with the cunning use of facts.
- “Shapps calls for coal-burning plants to remain open for another year” – Plans to close Britain’s last coal-burning power facilities should be delayed for another year, the Energy Secretary has said, according to the Telegraph. Just one more year…
- “Challenging Net Zero with Science: Lindzen-Happer-CO2 Coalition Paper Released” – WUWT reports on the new paper from the top climate scientists that argues Net Zero plans are “dangerous and unsupported by science and the scientific method”.
- “We seem to have forgotten that actors pretend to be other people for a living” – With her attack on Emma Corrin, Jessica Barden has forgotten that the whole point of what they do is pretending to be somebody else, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “Black lecturer who complained of failure to put correct nameplate on her door loses racism tribunal” – Dr. Christabelle Peters said it was a “microaggression” the plaque did not include her academic title unlike her white university colleagues, but the tribunal did not agree, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rees-Mogg’s Show More Than Doubles Piers Morgan’s Audience Share” – Jacob Rees-Mogg made his big debut on GB News on Monday night, going head-to-head with Piers Morgan at 8pm – and trouncing him, reports Guido.
- “Question on Chinese election interference is racist, Justin Trudeau suggests” – The Canadian Prime Minister refused to give straight answers about potential foreign influence during a tense press conference, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s ‘menopause action plan’ is an insult to women” – Joanna Williams in the Spectator is not impressed with Angela Rayner’s period politics.
- “Don’t be fooled: China wants Russian victory in Ukraine” – A public stance of neutrality is geared towards self-preservation, writes Lucas Webber in UnHerd.
- “Ireland backtracks on gender identity curriculum in schools” – Ireland is routinely cited as a beacon of woke ‘best practice’ on all matters transgender, but now it seems the Irish are having second thoughts, writes Debbie Hayton in UnHerd.
- “Angela Davis’ ancestry reveals the folly of reparations” – The radical activist’s ‘settler’ roots remind us why no one should feel guilty about the actions of their ancestors, says James Heartfield in Spiked.
- “#MeToo is ruining the lives of teenage boys” – Awkward teenagers are being shamed as rapists for making innocent mistakes, says Candice Holdsworth in Spiked.
- “My fight for free speech goes on” – Revd Dr. Bernard Randall in the Critic on the shockingly poor judgment in his employment tribunal from a judge who seemed not to have heard a word he said or have any appreciation of the importance of the right to freedom of speech.
- “This is no ‘crackdown’ on asylum seekers. It’s a free-for-all amnesty” – David Craig in TCW sees through the spin.
- “‘The attempt to intimidate me is meant to serve as a warning to women’: J.K. Rowling tells ‘Witch Trials’ podcast that backlash she’s received over her trans views is being used as threat to silence others” – The author said she had received “‘direct threats of violence”, reports the Mail.
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Blar Blar Blar! Self important tw*ts!
It is not made clear why carbon neutrality is the concern of a group dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion
That’s absolutely clear: Just Like COVID-19 and systemic racism, it’s part of the same pseudo-revolutionary scam by the same (kind of) people. They have some set of policies they want to see implemented (like favoritism towards groups they want associate with), some set of fortunately silent (or even yet unborn) pitiful victims on whose behalf they claim to be speaking (like the poor and oppressed or our childrend and grandchildren) and some ill-defined problem with supposedly apocalyptic consequences which urgently needs to be addressed.
The only sensible way to deal with this is to reject it. The purposes of politics is to improve the present and not, to solve problems of future generations before they even manifest themselves. Future generations will have to look after themselves once the time has come for that, they’re going to face problems we don’t have an idea of yet and will address them with means which haven’t been invented so far. People who are permanently stuck in the middle of the 20th century ought to consider relegating themselves to museums instead of claiming their ever more distant past would really be the future.
If you go back to 1923 it would be impossible to predict what 2023 would look like. —–The Internet. Aeroplanes, Cars, Lighting, Gas central heating, Massive rise in life expectancy, Freedom from preventable diseases, Appliances to bring an end to back breaking labour etc etc etc etc. Trying to pretend you want to decarbonise for the benefit of future generations that will be 3 times wealthier than we are is mealy mouthed eco posturing that tries not to admit what climate change policies are really about, and they are mostly not about the climate. The amount of politicians who bleat about their “children and grandchildren” is vomit inducing. Especially as these same pretend to save the planet people are doing their best to remove the very fuels they will need to have the standard of living their grandfathers and grandmothers currently have. because you cannot power industrial society on wind, sun, hydrogen or tidal. Constant brainwashing today has a whole generation of young people who are clamouring for their own impoverishment and infact they glue themselves to the road and “demand” it.
“Trying to pretend you want to decarbonise for the benefit of future generations that will be 3 times wealthier than we are is mealy mouthed eco posturing…”
On current trajectories and unless we stop the Davos Deviants one thing I can absolutely guarantee is that future generations WILL NOT be three times wealthier than we are, three times poorer most probably.
What is having a “disproportionately harmful effect on the poor and the oppressed” is denying them fossil fuels. One billion people in the third world have no electricity. ——–Just take a moment to contemplate that. ————NO ELECTRICTY.— This is a diabolical disgrace. The EU (climate activists supreme) at one point spent vast sums on the idea that they could cover the Sahara in Solar Panels and import that electricity back into Europe. What a total smack in the face for the worlds poorest. The phony planet savers would deny these poor people access to fossil fuels that would bring them out of the abject misery of a stoneage existence, and then steal their sunshine and cable it all back to the wealthy EU.
And denying them food by closing down productive farms in western countries.
And trying to reduce CO2 (plant food) levels to reduce crop yields, even though this is not possible.
Talking of heights of absurdity, yet possibly sound business sense and an eye for money…
By co-incidence, an advert appeared today in my inbox for Boom Technology, which is seeking share capital and other funding to re-introduce supersonic flight. The brochure ingeniously leverages the customer desire for all things Green, by explaining how really expensive the pre-Green fuel bill was for supersonic flight, yet somehow fudges the issue of how Green fuel is even more expensive than aviation kerosene. Presumably the target customer base is rich Green virtue-signallers who will be persuaded that they are Saving The Planet by flying supersonic, “because it’s Green, innit?” Presumably government employees will also be encouraged to fly the green flag by going supersonic whenever possible, especially if they are Important People.
Assuming this is not mere pamphletware and prospectus fluff, I wonder where the money will actually come from? Will it be from early investors and government funding rather than customers, rather like domestic solar panels and windfarm owners? Who will keep it financially aloft when the Green Mania wears off, like the Railway Mania faded in the late 1840s ?
… which reminds me. Railway Mania was partly the invention of new technology but also partly the result of collusion between MPs and venture capitalists that caused all manner of Acts of Parliament to be passed to support building railways, some brilliantly conceived, some hopelessly economically, some unfortunate gambles, and some outright fraud on investors. Surely MPs these days don’t stoop to taking bribes, or aren’t just gullible dupes, to support massive financial scams perpetrated on small investors and the general public….???
But didn’t I read somewhere that internet servers worldwide use about 10% of all generated electricity, so putting stuff on-line only contributes to the need for that power and despite what claims are made, not all of it is “green”. Please correct me if I’m wrong.