- “Britain will lose the next world war. It’s too woke to fight” – Those who might be called upon to lay down their lives might wonder who, or what, they would be fighting for, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “‘Of course I jolly well would’: Boris Johnson pledges to join Army to fight Russia if needed” – The former PM says he supports General Sir Patrick Sanders’s call for a citizen military in the face of dwindling recruitment figures, reports the Telegraph.
- “Four of Britain’s Top Institutions Have Made Erroneous Estimates of the Cost of Net Zero” – Four national institutions have failed to model the 2050 energy system correctly, and all of them in ways that lead to understatement of the costs of Net Zero, explains Paul Homewood in Watts Up With That.
- “New study warns of soaring energy bills” – Official Net Zero models have grossly understated costs, says Andrew Montford in Net Zero Watch. No, really?
- “Germany’s dream of building a fleet of hydrogen-fired power plants is faltering” – Plans to build a fleet of hydrogen power plants to supplement wind turbines and solar panels have hit the buffers, according to Euractiv.
- “The electric vehicle fiasco has become dangerous” – Electric buses are bursting into flames. I’ll take my chances with diesel, thank you, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “The climate scaremongers: Another £40billion of your cash down the Net Zero drain” – The Government has given the go-ahead for Drax to fit carbon capture technology to their wood burning power plant in North Yorkshire, with an estimated cost to the taxpayer of £40 billion, reports Paul Homewood in TCW: Defending Freedom.
- “£10 billion in taxpayer cash wasted on overpriced, faulty or unused PPE” – Auditors trawled through the accounts of the Department of Health and Social Care, which was responsible for buying masks, gloves and gowns during the pandemic, and discovered the Government wrote off £9.9 billion’s worth as “unusable”, reports the Mail.
- “My response to Tracy Beth Hoeg’s criticisms of our ‘17M vaccine deaths’ calculation” – Denis Rancourt responds to Tracy Beth Hoeg’s critique of his vaccine study on Substack.
- “UN employees sacked for alleged involvement in Hamas attack on Israel” – Messages found on a Telegram group of UN employees reportedly called terrorist fighters “martyrs” and “heroes“, according to the Telegraph.
- “Admiral Nelson included in National Maritime Museum’s ‘Queer History Night’” – Cross-dressing Arctic explorers, 19th Century trans sailors and ‘Penguin Pride’ feature in LBGTQ+ History Month at a taxpayer-funded museum supposed to celebrate Britain’s maritime heritage, reports the Telegraph.
- “Andrew Neil: it would be absurd for the UAE to own the Spectator” – Watch Andrew Neil on Newsnight explain why selling the Telegraph and the Spectator to the UAE, where citizens aren’t allowed to vote, isn’t such a great idea.
- “British AI firm helped censor activists and journalists, poised to shape 2024 U.S. elections” – Logically AI, a British company, helped the U.K. Government censor critics of lockdowns and vaccine passports and now looks set to suppress dissenting voices in the U.S. Presidential election, reports Lee Fang on Substack.
- “Bring back asylums, and make Britain safe again” – The Nottingham murders must put an end to our insistence that everyone, no matter how incapable, should be left to try and live in society, says Henry Hill in the Telegraph.
- “BBC has no ‘God-given right’ to exist, says Tory Chairman” – Richard Holden says the corporation does not always understand Britain as he raises fresh questions about its impartiality, according to the Telegraph.
- “Graham Linehan starts legal action against pub over ban” – Linehan, 55, is suing a pub in Belfast along with 22 others, saying they were asked to leave over their gender critical views, says the Mail.
- “European voters are rebelling against the elites” – Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator reports on the growing support for Marine Le Pen in France.
- “Four year-old boy joins Church of England school as a girl” – A four year-old boy has been allowed to join a Church of England school masquerading as a girl, reports the Mail.
- “Four year-old boy allowed to join school as a girl is no Grimm fairytale but a real-life nightmare” – Our little ones’ innocence has been robbed and their mental well-being disregarded just so ideological idiocy can protect one ‘trans child’, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Trump has captured the new conservative zeitgeist” – It’s not enough to master policy or parrot the usual arguments. You have to give voters what they want, according to David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Donald Trump ordered to pay $83.3 million in damages to E. Jean Carroll” – The former President says he will appeal against the defamation verdict ordering him to pay the plaintiff $83.3 million, reports the Times.
- “The tyrant who is also a joker” – Andrew Sullivan assesses the threat Trump poses to the republic on his Substack.
- “Sky News apologises after presenter compares Israel’s war with Hamas to Holocaust” – Israel’s ex-ambassador condemns the Sky News reporter’s comparison of Israel to Nazi Germany as a “shameful, anti-Semitic equation”, says the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak condemns ‘horrific irony’ of Israel genocide ruling” – No. 10 says legal case at International Court of Justice making accusations of war crimes is “completely unjustified”, according to the Telegraph.
- “US will keep nuclear weapons in UK for the first time in 15 years” – Warheads to be housed at RAF Lakenheath for the first time in 15 years, Pentagon documents reveal, as Moscow warns of ‘escalation’, reports the Mail.
- “Best anti-woke ad ever!“ – CryptoDeepBlue on X has posted a brilliant anti-woke ad by Redballoon.work (scroll down).
Best anti-woke ad I’ve seen ever.
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COP28: comedy gold…..the gift that keeps giving…..after flying there on private executive jets, they’ll probably have a side meeting on how to get there on their private yachts next time….oh…hang on…..
https://www.cop28.com/en/schedule/responsible-yachting-today-tomorrow
Yes, I saw that one about responsible yachting. To me, a yacht has masts and sails which can be made of wood and cloth so what’s the problem? Hmmmmm
I used to follow a YT channel of a couple who were crossing oceans in a sailing boat – high tech materials, and a battery to work their high tech comms equipment that enabled them to get where they needed to go safely –
satellite, radar, GPS etc. All very “green”.
I saw them. I think they had a baby with them too. It was very inspiring. Travel around the world on your own with no laws, government regulations or limits of where to go (well almost).
A prepper’s ideal final escape from the techno totalitarian nightmare.
It was during lockdown in part so they largely avoided all that crap
The discussion will focus on a variety of technical solutions developed to make the yachting experience more responsible and sustainable. Sunreef Yachts Eco representatives will share an insight into the R&D activity of the company and practical solutions that can be implemented to ensure cleaner boating. This will include a conversation about electric, hybrid and hydrogen propulsion, battery technology, plant-based composites, bottom paints, modern photovoltaics, sustainable interior finishing, water management, energy management, air conditioning. The focus will also be on the evolution of technology and future trends.
My emphasis in bold. I can see that they are not talking about the yachts I had in mind i.e. your little sailing boat with its entirely sustainable profile involving things like sails, ropes, rudders, tillers, hulls and masts often made of wood but yachts for the super wealthy with their ‘air conditioning’ and ‘energy management’ requirements! I had a look at Sunreef’s range – some of them even have helipads. So, not the yachts for thee and thou but the yachts for they and them!
There is “science” and then there are “myths”. ———-There is no evidence that CO2 is causing or will cause dangerous changes to climate. It certainly has not done so up till now and we keep getting told that the CO2 that we have “pumped” into the atmosphere since the 1700’s is causing climate change. But that is falsified by the fact that there is no increase in the frequency or intensity of any type of weather event. Yet computer models full of assumptions, guesses and speculations where basic parameters are either poorly understood or totally unknown are presented as “the science”——MODELS ARE NOT SCIENCE, and guess what ? They have all been totally wrong till now anyway. —-So if it is clearly not about science, what is it about? —————CO2 is the one gas that can be directly tied to Industrial Capitalism, and I am afraid that is what it is really about. The wealthiest people and countries emit the most and the poorest people and countries emit the least. The wealthiest people who live in the prosperous west are to stop emitting CO2 , which really means they are to stop using fossil fuels because we can afford to dabble in expensive niche technologies ike wind and sun and we are to send money to poorer people by way of bribes to tell them to leave their fossil fuels in the ground——-“Reparations” or “climate justice” or some other eco socialist terminology is used that really is about total control of the worlds wealth and resources, and the excuse for all of this anti capitalist central planning is “climate change”, the greatest pseudo scientific fraud ever.
“The wealthiest people who live in the prosperous west are to stop emitting CO2 …”
Well, not quite, since all human beings are CO2 generators: with every breath we breathe, we exhale 100 times the amount of CO2 we inhale. I learned that in biology at school – a long time ago, when schools used to educate. We are, after all, animals that survive by converting O2 to CO2. So those of us who really believe CO2 is destroying the planet need to … hold their breath!
Another cracker from Mr Morrison, thank you.
It was a pleasure to meet you briefly on Monday evening at Lola’s.
Always like reading Mr Morrison he has a terrific sense of humour and the way his takes the p*** out of these climate change net zero freaks is second to none.
I noticed the Met Office were panicked yesterday into releasing a YouTube video on the 1.5%.
Funnily enough, they didn’t mention any of the points raised above!
Another fact recently established in a study shows that a total transformation to so-called ‘renewables’ would require a further 80 million kilometres of high voltage transmission cabling – or in layman’s terms 80 million kilometres of steel wire and pylons.
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/12/your-clean-green-future-needs-another-80-million-km-of-high-voltage-lines/
There is no intention to make “a total transformation to so-called ‘renewables’ “. That is simply a myth. The intention is to reduce the population such that the elites have everything to themselves with a slave population to service them.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-cop-squad-are-coming-for-our-cows/
As many of us here know attacks on food supplies are an integral part of the depopulation plan. So they are going to reduce methane – in other words cattle.
Here we go again.
The people intent on selling vegan replacement products for meat and dairy have hitched their waggons to chlimate cange a long time ago. They’d obviously very much like to get some of the money, too, and if government could be persuaded to outlaw competing products people preferably buy, this would also help the bottom line a lot.
Just as with COVID, whoever can tries to exploit the scam to further his own agenda, whatever it might be.
“Climate change” is a desperate operation by the western world order to cling on to global power, against the tide of the growing wealth and influence of non western powers.
When you put yourself in the mindset that most of the people in positions of power are sociopaths, everything makes perfect sense.
If you think that people in positions of power are trying to serve the common good, you’re not only completely lost, you’re a useful idiot. Fodder for their cannon.
Anything that seems like serving the common good is nothing more than the temporary and absolute minimum alignment of interests required for the sociopaths to get their way.
Ridiculous. Asia won’t follow the West as it commits economic suicide.
What is “doing an Ali Jaber?”
Blowing a firkin hole in someone’s argument so big that they have no possibility of reply.
Excellent, HP! I’ll have to remember that one!
Thanks Aethelred
Monro. You literally couldn’t make this up! The have yachts on sustainable sailing while telling the rest of us to stay in harbour!
At least Al Jaber has a scientific training (Chemical Engineering), in contrast to most of these climate grifters. Mary Robinson (who I met as a guest speaker at a conference) is an incredibly self important member of The EUOirish elite. Like the old drunk Higgins and others she lives in a bubble sealed off from the chaotic country she has created. Looking forward to seeing her try hard not to patronise Connor McGregor when he enters the fray!
A Conservative sub 60 seats election result will put a lid on this climate nonsense.
Imagine the naivete of people who believe anybody can measure a single temperature for the earth and to 1.5 degrees! Temperatures are infinite and chaotic all over the earth and can vary 10 degrees or more within a 100 mile radius. From daytime to nighttime they can vary 30 degrees. And then to set political goals set on this! Pseudoscience at It’s best.
Two reasons Chris Morrison is my favourite writer here:
Where can I see more of him?
Charring Cross Station, outside WH Smith 4-45 pm Sunday. Will be carrying a brolly, wearing a Ganex raincoat and sporting a red rose.