- “Police ‘execution’ of teenager sparks riots in Paris as cars burned” – Rioting has broken out on the streets of a Paris suburb as a policeman is accused of executing a teenage driver in cold blood, reports the Mail.
- “Lockdown-induced phobias and anxieties fuelling long-term sickness crisis” – In the Telegraph, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has suggested that musculoskeletal problems have increased among home workers since the pandemic due to poor posture.
- “Fight this sinister power grab by the WHO: part three” – In the last in a three-part series, Dr. Elizabeth Evans argues that the proposed WHO Pandemic Treaty and changes to the International Health Regulations would be a dangerous assault on medical ethics and individual freedoms.
- “The disgrace of Australia’s pandemic betrayal” – John Stapleton’s new book, Australia Breaks Apart, is “the definitive account of Covid Australia” and a thundering reminder of the evil that men (and women) do, says Paul Collits.
- “The perils of Net Zero coercion” – Sweeping bans to cut greenhouse emissions in Europe are leading to widespread public backlash, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.
- “Britain’s pothole crisis could be made worse by electric cars” – A study led by the University of Leeds has found that the excessive weight of electric vehicles could decimate roads that are already ill-equipped to handle the strain, reports the Mail.
- “Just Stop Oil throw paint over energy firm’s Canary Wharf office” – Eco-zealots staged a sit-in outside the Total Energies HQ after using repurposed fire extinguishers to spray paint its exterior fluorescent orange, says the Mail.
- “If the ‘godfather of ESG’ is confused, then you know there’s a problem” – BlackRock CEO Larry Fink found himself tangled up in knots over the weekend facing questions about the lacklustre performance of ESG funds. It’s time for a refink, says Ben Wright.
- “NHS nursing strikes are over… for now” – NHS nursing strikes have temporarily halted as the Royal College of Nursing fell short of achieving a 50% participation rate in its latest ballot for industrial action, reports the Mail.
- “MP’s bid to ban ‘social gender transitioning’ in schools is defeated” – Reclaim Party MP Andrew Bridgen failed to attract support for new gender and parental rights laws, says the Mail.
- “Gender-critical woman wins Arts Council England harassment claim after trans row” – An employment tribunal has ruled that Arts Council England employee Denise Fahmy faced a ‘hostile environment’ because of her view that people cannot change their biological sex, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lifeboat crews are caught in sexism and racism storm” – RNLI lifeboatmen have accused the charity of being on a “woke crusade” amid a row over “alpha male” among volunteers behaviour, says the Mail.
- “The world’s wokest country is leaving Britain’s economy in the dust” – A dose of Canada’s ultra-liberal realism could solve the U.K.’s stagnant growth, says Matthew Lynn.
- “The witch trials of Davina McCall” – Brendan O’Neill explains why the trans set is so terrified of women with opinions, following the monstering of Davina McCall for tweeting her approval of Sharron Davies‘s new book.
- “The problem with ‘cis’” – “Language is being manipulated by trans activists,” warns James Esses in Spiked. “The sooner we leave it behind, the better.”
- “Who is controversial director Nicolas Winding Refn?” – The BBC has raised eyebrows by picking a controversial Danish film director to helm its re-interpretation of Enid Blyton’s children’s classic.
- “There’s nothing rebellious about Glastonbury” – Every politician, broadsheet hack and nepo baby now insists on being seen there, says Julie Burchill.
- “Meghan labelled talentless after Spotify podcast deal collapse” – According to the Telegraph, Hollywood agent Jeremy Zimmer says the Duchess of Sussex is “not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of talent”. Ouch.
- “Nigel Farage is named News Presenter of the Year at the TRIC Awards” – Nigel Farage last night called on his hecklers to “keep the abuse coming” as it “says a lot more about you than about me” after he was named the best news presenter in the country at a trendy awards ceremony, reports the Mail.
- “Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning” – Apple joins WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in condemning the Online Safety Bill for allowing a state regulator to view messages on end-to-end encryption apps, reports the BBC.
- “Exposed: secret Government effort to regulate your mind” – The U.S. Congress must defund and dismantle the corrupt Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and fire its director, says Michael Shellenberger.
- “Britons currently have the worst access to healthcare in Europe” – On the 75th birthday of the NHS, the New Statesman’s George Eaton says the NHS (and the Government) needs journalistic scrutiny, not quasi-religious indulgence.
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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.