- “Next Round of Covid Booster Jabs to Start Within Days” – The latest round of Covid boosters will start on Monday. Five million high-risk Brits will be eligible for a spring vaccine, reports the Sun.
- “Novak Djokovic Likely to Contest U.S. Open After Senate Vote to End Covid Restrictions ” – The 22-time Grand Slam winner looks set to return to America after being banned for his vaccine status, reports the Express.
- “Are Heat Pumps Really Worth It?” – The U.K. is lagging behind the rest of the world in adopting the green tech, but with new gas boilers to be phased out by 2035, the Times asks what its like for the early adopters.
- “The Left Has a New Aim: To Make Ordinary People Poorer” – The net zero debate has revealed a stunning shift in the basic assumptions that underpin left-wing political thinking, reports the Telegraph.
- “Federal Judge Temporarily Halts Tennessee’s ‘Drag Ban’ Law” – The law, which criminalises some drag performances, was set to take effect on Saturday, according to NBC News.
- “Who Will Stand Up to This Woke Elite?” – Laura Perrins, co-founder and co-editor of the Conservative Woman, calls on readers to stand up to the “woke elite” and stop gender ideology and other woke movements from running rampant.
- “Andrew Tate Responds After Being ‘Hilariously’ Mocked in South Park Episode” – Tate may have been released from Romanian jail, but he hasn’t escaped the makers of South Park, reports the Independent.
- “Keir Starmer: Trans Rights Can’t Override Women’s Rights” – Sir Keir knows he has a “women problem” – or at least the perception of one, according to the Times.
- “Kentucky’s New LGBTQ Law Ignites Protests” – Nineteen people have been arrested during the backlash after a new law was passed banning transgender medical treatment for those under 18, according to the BBC.
- “Jamie Lee Curtis Celebrates Daughter Ruby for Trans Day of Visibility” – The movie star has been vocal about her support for trans rights, according to the Independent.
- “Language Is Not Our Master” – The perpetually offended have endowed words with quasi-magical properties, argues Patrick West in Spiked.
- “Husband of Suella Braverman Speaks Out Against Gary Lineker” – Rael Braverman calls it “the Gary Lineker intervention”. The Home Secretary’s husband has accused the football pundit of smearing his wife, according to the Mail Online.
- “Council Could Sell Its ‘Inappropriate’ Biblical Paintings” – An Oxford councillor has proposed a motion saying the town hall’s art does not reflect the authority’s “progressive” agenda, reports the Telegraph.
- “The BBC is Axing Its Panel Shows. It Only Has Itself to Blame” – Satire comedy shows appear to be dying on the BBC as another one bites the dust, according to the Spectator.
- “Gone With the Wind Branded ‘Harmful’ By Its Own Publisher” – Margaret Mitchell’s Civil War epic novel has been deemed “problematic” in a trigger warning by its publisher, Pan Macmillan, reports the Telegraph.
- “BBC Wants Michael Vaughan to Return With Talks Planned Next Week” – The corporation wants the former England captain to cover the Ashes, but he is still considering his options, according to the Telegraph.
- “Café Renames Ploughman’s Lunch to Customer’s Horror” – Espresso Corner in Kirkgate, a self-styled “cozy little independent coffee shop” has gone woke with a gender-neutral menu item, as reported in the Mail Online.
- “James Delingpole Hosts Neil Oliver” – Watch James in conversation with special guest Neil Oliver for his live show at the Emmanuel Centre, London.
- “These People Are a Doomsday Cult” — Watch Emily Carver on GB News as she argues that Just Stop Oil activists are damaging their own mental health — and ours.
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Reality rears it’s lovely head. The puzzle is why it took so long.
Obviously BP have understood that at some point Nut Zero has to fail and no matter the timescale the company will find itself sitting on some very profitable assets. We can only hope that reality bites early.
I guess BP are operating in a global market and figure that there will be plenty of buyers for hydrocarbons long into the future, and whatever subsidies and incentives they get from Nut Zero governments are not for now enough for them to bother with windmills.
Look on the bright side concerning the Horse Hill ‘Supreme’ Court decision: The oil will still be there later and will probably become more valuable.
Who “owns” the coal under the UK? Under our feet there must be 1,000 years of assets, frozen since the decision to close deep mines around 2000. Is there some shrewd investor or some canny lawyer who during the fire-sale a few decades ago “bought” for a £1 asset (e.g. a mine, or the rights to extract coal) and simply passes it down the generation? If energy prices continue to soar, many mines previously unprofitable or closed down because of politics would suddenly be profitable if they could be re-opened by re-issuing licences. Doubtless a similar situation exists in the US where billionaires presumably bought up defunct mines or “useless” mineral rights and simply hang on, or bequeath them, till the coal becomes “transmuted” into gold when the next generation, immiserated, dark and shivering, repeals Global NetZero and introduces fifth generation clean furnaces.
The Coal Authority https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/the-coal-authority
So the Coal Authority have the right to grant (for a suitable fee) or refuse a licence to explore for or extract coal, but do not own or utilise the asset themselves. So it’s a modern-day rent seeking operation?
Yes all very sensible if we were living in the real world. But we are living in the NET ZERO world. A world where we have forced ourselves “In Law” to reduce emissions and as far as energy production is concerned coal has the highest CO2 emissions. So only under very remarkable circumstances would coal be considered, although it did happen in Germany after they had made the silly decision to close down all Nuclear. They had to open 14 new coal mines or face blackouts.
But if reducing CO2 emissions is really what this all about then we would be going all out for Nuclear Energy. The fact that many of those climate fundamentalist groups don’t want Nuclear indicates their motives are less to do with climate and more to do with control of wealth and resources and especially fossil fuels which power 85% of the world. Net Zero is simply just anti capitalism with climate as the plausible excuse that large portions of the public accept because they are indoctrinated nearly everyday about a climate crisis on Mainstream News Programs
Some good news!
So will they return to being called British Petroleum instead of Beyond Petroleum? We are soon going to have an extremely eco fascist Labour Government with the likes of Miliband in there seeking to suck up the arses of the UN and WEF and pretend to save the planet harder and faster then every other country, so you can imagine how Miliband and his crew of eco fundamentalists will react to what BP are supposedly doing now.
But what we should really all be scared off is a huge Labour majority which will make them virtual Emperors able to enact every absurdity in the Sustainable Devlopment book, and impoverish us all in line with this UN idea that western lifestyles are “unsustainable”, in other worlds our standard of living is too high. —-Think about that for a second. Your government agrees that your standard of living is too high. This is preposterous. But be in no doubt with this massive majority that Labour are seemingly going to get on the 4th July people are going to see this squirming bunch of eco fascists set about getting rid of everything that makes our lives comfortable all under false pretences of a climate emergency.
And all the while our idiot political class continues to demonise fossil fuels and making investment in this country impossible, leading to ever-increasing imports and the flight of profitable fossil fuel companies.
Bravo BP! Drill baby, drill.
Get your butts down to the Falklands and start building a new Sovereign Wealth Fund from the liquid gold and gas fields discovered there. Before the Argies nick it.
Norway’s wealth fund is approaching $1.5Trillion.
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The insanity of Net Zero.
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