- “Iran’s Foreign Minister warns Israel to stop Gaza attacks or risk ‘huge earthquake’” – The Times of Israel reports on claims that Tehran has conveyed to Israel it will intervene if strikes on Hamas continue.
- “BBC Arabic reporters backing Hamas on social media say Israeli hostages have been ‘arrested’” – The BBC is embroiled in an impartiality row after its journalists appeared to justify the killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas, the Telegraph reports.
- “Jeremy Corbyn tells pro-Palestinian protesters anyone who believes in human rights ‘must condemn’ Israeli army’s actions in Gaza” – The former Labour leader addressed thousands at a rally in London, urging them to condemn the Israeli army’s actions in Gaza amid mass protests across the U.K.’s major cities, the Mail reports.
- “Star of David graffitied on Berlin homes in chilling echo of Nazi crimes” – The incidents appear to be an intentional imitation of the antisemitic persecution of Jews during the 1930s, says the Telegraph.
- “The West is truly lost if it can’t see Hamas for what it really is” – The terror group deliberately started a war against Israel; it is morally responsible for what happens next, says Daniel Hannan.
- “Unspeakable slaughter, but I’ve seen nobody flying an Israel flag” – When Russia invaded Ukraine last year, the schools near me put Ukraine flags in their windows, but no Israeli flags have appeared, says Hadley Freeman in the Times.
- “Israel eases guns restrictions amidst security failures” – Just as Ukraine did when Russia invaded, Israel has eased gun restrictions among its citizenry, reports Reason.
- “Anti-Semitism and the new world order, Part 1” – TCW‘s Norman Fenton and Karen Harradine on the global rise and risks of antisemitism in the form of anti-Zionism and its worryingly unashamed endorsement by parts of the U.K.’s anti-globalist ‘freedom movement’.
- “How Hamas fooled Israel – and the West” – Too many people seem to have persuaded themselves that Hamas was open to negotiations, say John Jenkins and Udi Rosen in the Spectator.
- “After his comments on Israel, Gareth Southgate’s halo has well and truly slipped” – The England manager’s defence of the FA’s “difficult” decision was pathetically craven, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Covid Inquiry proves SAGE had too much power” – Boris Johnson leant too much on an unaccountable body, says Kevin Bardosh in UnHerd.
- “Vaccine and stroke – the unmentionable connection” – Dr. Roger Watson in TCW notes that one obvious possible cause of stroke is being left out in medical journal articles.
- “The real tragedy of Sir Tom Moore’s wasted millions” – The funds could have been spent on lovely new cancer centres, but were squandered on trivial projects, writes Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero Ambitions: Sinking in a Sea of Reality?” – Investor confidence in renewable energy is waning, says WUWT.
- “The climate scaremongers: Whatever happened to the ice-free Arctic?” – In TCW, Paul Homewood takes a look back at the failed predictions of Arctic thaw.
- “Rural councils launch ‘meaty’ resistance against vegan trend” – Councillors in Suffolk, Cornwall, and Northamptonshire are defying the vegan wave, vowing to keep meat and dairy on the menu, the Telegraph reports.
- “LTNs in Oxford cause ‘chronic’ gridlock and ‘exasperatingly’ slow bus journeys” – A report by travel companies reveals that it is often quicker to walk into the city centre than take the bus, according to the Telegraph.
- “A Climate of Pessimism at the Vatican” – Having gone ‘full Greta’, Pope Francis then goes ‘full Karl Marx’, says Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Conservatives should amend the Equality Act — not repeal it” – A small amount of legal tweaking can tame the Blob, argues James McSweeney in UnHerd.
- “Police try to intimidate and censor Tory councillor from speaking to media after free speech ‘hate crime’ arrest” – In a disturbing development, Northamptonshire Police has tried to intimidate and censor a Tory councillor from speaking to the media after he was arrested for an alleged ‘hate crime’, reports Christian Concern.
- “Labour plan for cohabiting laws are anti-libertarian, says former High Court judge” – Sir Paul Coleridge says introducing a form of common law marriage would represent a huge extension of the state into people’s private lives.
- “Kevin Spacey cancelled by West End cinema despite acquittal” – Friends and colleagues of the actor are outraged as the world premiere of his first film since being cleared of sex assault charges is scrapped, reports the Telegraph.
- “Does the Native American case for reparations add up?” – Jeff Fynn-Paul in the Spectator sets out the case against paying ‘compensation’ to the descendants of indigenous people.
- “Australia’s divisive Voice referendum’s crushing defeat” – Terry Barnes covers Australia’s ‘Brexit moment’ for the Spectator.
- “Will Young’s queer privilege” – Julie Burchill in Spiked on the slightly bizarre news that Will Young has promised to leave the U.K. if the Tories win the next election.
- “I’m told there were also delegations from ‘Turkeys in favour of Christmas’ and ‘Chickens Love KFC’” – Douglas Murray responds to reports of an ‘LGBT stands with Palestine’ sign at the London Palestine rally.
I’m told there were also delegations from ‘Turkeys in favour of Christmas’ and ‘Chickens
— Douglas Murray (@DouglasKMurray) October 14, 2023KFC.’ https://t.co/huCfuorYSV
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“Governments don’t stay in power if they make people cold and poor”. They do if there is no coherent opposition to vote for.
And even if they don’t stay in power and get replaced, the next lot just carry on in the same way, so it makes no difference.
And they are rewarded with gongs for failure.
Which confirms what I keep repeating on here – our governments are NOT running the country.
Pitchforks.
Petrol bombs while we still have access to it.
All the petrol pumps have been damaged by climate zealots.
Pointing out the costs and suffering won’t put an end to insane climate policies.
The policies stem from the idea that burning fossil fuels leads to climate catastrophe and destruction.
In most peoples’ minds, a bit of suffering is better than catastrophe and destruction.
Years and years of brainwashing need to be undone.
But that isn’t going to happen without telling everyone that the whole CO2 climate catastrophe story is a giant hoax.
Too many people who try to argue against climate policy on the basis of the unacceptable costs don’t dare to challenge the broader narrative and that’s a big problem.
I think this is true for the Guardian readers I know, but I also talk to quite a few people much more grounded in reality and I am sure they would be more than happy to forget about the climate crisis if their bills went down.
People are saying that “the whole CO2 climate catastrophe story is a giant hoax” but they do not try to prove it. Probably they do not know enough to be able to.
The UN and WEF will be delighted that their planned destruction of the UK …. at the hands of the British Establishment and puppeticians is going so well.
Only a small percentage of the Earth’s surface has direct temperature reading instruments of varying accuracy and from which these averages of averages are calculated.
The result is numbers, not data.
Net-zero common sense for decades. And all because the earth has supposedly warmed 0.8 deg C since 1860 when records began at the low point after a little ice age.
To physicists, that’s an increase of 0.3% from 288 to 288.8 degrees Kelvin. Meanwhile the difference in average temperature between London and Manchester is 1.2 deg C. Go figure.
A simpleton’s yarn debunked over a decade ago by a Nobel Physics Laureate…
https://mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/recordings/31259/the-strange-case-of-global-warming-2012
“…In this talk I will explain why I became concerned about the climate, and terrified by the one-sided propaganda in the media, In particular I am worried about all the money wasted on alternate energies, when so many children in the world go hungry to bed.”
Twelve years on, the Climate Theatre of the Absurd just runs and runs.
Thanks for the link.
Climate activists are average people
No, I think most of us would consider them below average retards if there answer to a lack of wind generation is just to build more of it. 1 + 1 still only equals 1 when it is the percentage of output from your windmills.
Energy, supply and demand.
The article covers comprehensively the supply end, or lack of it, but leaves out the zooming demand. According to the (fake) statistics, the population of Greater London in 2024 was 9,748,000, 1% more than 2023. Nevertheless, going by measurements of water consumption and sewage production, the real figure is close to 12m. And this is the curious thing. The NetZeroist fanatics also support enthusiastically open borders, ignoring the fact that increasing population levels lead to huge greenhouse gas emissions.
Friends of the Earth’s Tony Bosworth said, “We have an abundance of natural resources like wind and solar,” he says. “They’ll go on forever, and we won’t be reliant on expensive gas and oil.”
Bosworth ought to be sent, along with the Just Stop Oil filth who have just desecrated the grave of Charles Darwin, to Texas, to be instructed by the Texans about what happened to their wind & solar during the terrible “Polar Vortex” Blizzards in 2021. The wind turbines froze solid, the solar panels were covered with snow, and the people froze to death.
“The Texas Winter Storm And Power Outages Killed Hundreds More People Than The State Says”
“A BuzzFeed News analysis shows the catastrophic failure of Texas’s power grid in February killed hundreds of medically vulnerable people.”
“The true number of people killed by the disastrous winter storm and power outages that devastated Texas in February is likely four or five times what the state has acknowledged so far. A BuzzFeed News data analysis reveals the hidden scale of a catastrophe that trapped millions of people in freezing darkness, cut off access to running water, and overwhelmed emergency services for days.”
“The state’s tally currently stands at 151 deaths. But by looking at how many more people died during and immediately after the storm than would have been expected — an established method that has been used to count the full toll of other disasters — we estimate that 700 people were killed by the storm during the week with the worst power outages.”
“This astonishing toll exposes the full consequence of officials’ neglect in preventing the power grid’s collapse despite repeated warnings of its vulnerability to cold weather, as well as the state’s failure to reckon with the magnitude of the crisis that followed.”
Texas’s Winter Storm Killed Hundreds More Than Reported
Until the mainstream media stop repeating the net zero lies, it will remain difficult to get the honest message such as this article, through.