- “Riot police storm Columbia campus and drag pro-Palestine protesters from barricade” – Police in New York City arrest dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators holed-up in an academic building on Columbia University’s campus, reports GB News.
- “Columbia University calls upon NYPD to clear pro-Palestinian activists from an occupied building, as adversarial leftist protests return to American campuses” – The events at Columbia University reflect the decaying alliance between activists and university administrators, and portend an important shift in leftist dynamics both on and off campus, argues Eugyppius on Substack.
- “They aren’t revolutionaries. They’re bigoted brats” – The Columbia cranks rant about killing Zionists one minute and demand hot meals the next, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “We have a freedom problem” – At Columbia University and elsewhere, a generation of students, who take their liberties for granted, behave shamefully, writes Hannah E. Meyers in City Journal.
- “Is anti-white prejudice fuelling anti-Zionist protests?” – For Left-activists, Israel-Palestine is an allegory telling a story about the horrors of white supremacy and settler colonialism, says Eric Kaufmann in UnHerd.
- “Illegal migrants set to be deported to Rwanda handcuffed at home” – The first migrants set to be deported to Rwanda have been detained, reports the Mail.
- “Dublin’s tent city is destroyed and all 200 asylum seekers taken away” – Irish authorities launch an operation to move asylum seekers who created a ‘tent city’ in Central Dublin amid an ongoing row with the British Government over immigration, says the Mail.
- “The Republic’s migrant crisis threatens Northern Ireland” – Dublin now seems to be calling for a hard border on immigration, remarks Owen Polley in CapX.
- “The French are now channelling migrants to Ireland” – In the Telegraph, Michael Murphy reports from Dublin’s migrant camp, where he witnessed the chaos engulfing the Republic.
- “Ireland has made its bed with the EU. It must lie in it” – On one level, the migrant row is a mutually-helpful farce. But has something changed in U.K.-Irish ties? wonders Ruth Dudley Edwards in the Telegraph.
- “Labour would give 50,000 in limbo asylum seekers chance to stay in U.K.” – Labour would allow more than 50,000 asylum-seekers currently in limbo to make claims to stay in the U.K. if it wins the General Election, according to the Telegraph.
- “Why Sweden got it right on Covid” – We were told during Covid that Sweden would suffer mass fatalities. Instead, it had one of the lowest excess death rates in Europe. Does that suggest our response was wrong? asks Dan Hannan in the Mail.
- “The two sides of AstraZeneca’s vaccine ‘miracle’” – Jamie Scott was fit and healthy before the jab, but it nearly killed him – now he and others like him are suing the firm behind the drug, writes Jamie Scott in the Telegraph.
- “The true tragedy of the COVID-19 vaccines” – The jabs undoubtedly saved lives, but overblown claims damaged the reputation of vaccines in general, says Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
- “Scientists tried to give people Covid – and failed” – Researchers deliberately infect participants with SARS-CoV-2 in ‘challenge’ trials — but high levels of immunity complicate efforts to test vaccines and treatments, reports Ewen Callaway in Nature magazine.
- “U.S. states move to oppose WHO’s ‘pandemic treaty’, assert states’ rights” – Utah and Florida pass laws to prevent the WHO from overriding states’ authority on matters of public health policy – and Louisiana and Oklahoma are set to follow suit, reports the World Council for Health.
- “Perimenopausal women ‘40% more likely to have depression’, study shows” – Researchers from University College London found women were more vulnerable to depression and anxiety in the months and years leading up to the menopause, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pensioners at risk of snooping by officials under new law” – David Davis warns that a newly proposed law will allow the Government to access pensioners’ bank accounts without them knowing, according to the Express.
- “The SNP hasn’t realised that ‘socially conservative’ is actually normal” – With ‘progressive’ leaders like Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf, the Scottish National Party has become the farthest Left in the U.K., argues Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq Khan and the tyranny of high-status opinion” – Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill explains how Sadiq Khan turned London into a cultural playpen for the woke.
- “Sadiq Khan is holding London back” – Khan has been Mayor for eight years and has patently failed to deliver, says Harry Phibbs in CapX.
- “The dead hand of the state would kill our railways” – Under renationalisation, the railways would be pitted against a dozen other petitioners bidding for state hand-outs, warns William Yarwood in CapX.
- “The Net Zero leviathan is crushing the economy” – Britain has shot itself in the foot by leading the fight against climate change, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “BBC weather map row heats up over confusing colours” – The BBC is under fire for the colour scale it uses to represent temperatures, with lows of 11°C shown as yellow while 41°C is depicted as dark red, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why climate change isn’t going to end the world” – Cambridge professor Mike Hulme argues that climatism is an ideology that places too much importance on stopping climate change, when there are other more pressing issues that face humanity, according to the Mail.
- “Actor Martin Freeman eats pork pies again after 38 years” – Martin Freeman has quit vegetarianism after nearly four decades because meat replacement is “very, very processed”, reports the Mail.
- “Badenoch asks people to report public bodies which fail to offer single-sex spaces” – Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch is urging members of the public to give examples of state bodies failing to provide single-sex toilets, says the Telegraph.
- “Girls developed urinary infections because school had gender-neutral toilets, says Badenoch” – Kemi Badenoch claims that girls at a school developed urinary tract infections because they did not want to use gender-neutral toilets, according to the Express.
- “Keir Starmer put trans extremists ahead of women. Now he wants to pretend it never happened” – In deciding to edge himself back to reality from the most extreme transgender ideology, Starmer appears to be deluding himself that none of us will notice the shift, writes Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer is as slippery as ever on the trans debate” – Keir Starmer may have finally admitted that only women have cervixes, but that doesn’t mean he cares about women’s rights, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Daniel Radcliffe promises not to back down on LGBT rights after J.K. Rowling rebuke” – Daniel Radcliffe has reignited a row with J.K. Rowling by saying his beliefs don’t have to align with the author’s just because she made him a star, according to the Mail.
- “Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism” – People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances, says Victoria Smith in the Critic.
- “DEI was never about profitability” – DEI advocates from business giants like McKinsey and Mark Cuban have been proven wrong – and in the process reveal their real agenda, writes Christopher Brunet in the American Conservative.
- “Don’t knock feminism – having children is about personal priorities” – To ‘have it all’ meant we had to behave like men… but it can be hard to give up the new-found freedom that came with it, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Americans don’t want Kamala to be their ‘Momala’” – Drew Barrymore’s interview with the U.S Vice-President was a toe-curling display of sycophancy, writes Jenny Holland in Spiked.
- “Pizza with no bread” – Many memes have been produced about the pro-Palestinian protestors at Columbia asking for food, but this is one of the better ones.
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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.