- “Asian man who posed as far-Right hooligan to stir up racial hatred against Muslims is jailed” – An Asian man who posed as a far-Right hooligan on Telegram to lure the English Defence League into an ambush has been jailed for more than two years, reports the Mail.
- “Prisoner freed early by Starmer back in jail 48 hours later” – A former actor freed from jail early under Keir Starmer’s prisoner release scheme is back behind bars after assaulting his ex-partner, according to LBC.
- “Starmer is running out of options to stop the boats” – Labour’s interest in Italy suggests it isn’t as confident in the strategy of smashing the gangs as it might have claimed, notes Guy Dampier in the Telegraph.
- “The Netherlands demand opt-out of EU migration rules” – The Netherlands has become the first EU country to demand an opt-out of mandatory EU migration rules to try to reduce the number of refugees coming in, reports the Mail.
- “Quarter of pupils with three Ds at A-level get first-class degrees” – According to the Telegraph, the Office for Students has found that almost half of top degrees cannot be justified.
- “Labour ‘risking security of nation’ with private school tax raid” – Rachel Reeves is under pressure to raise the private school allowance for military families by 20%, effectively exempting them from the tax raid, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s spiteful war on private schools has betrayed military families” – There are few benefits to Army life and the Labour Government has just removed another, says Hamish de Bretton-Gordon in the Telegraph.
- “Reeves’s £10 billion windfall raises pressure to drop winter fuel cut” – Rachel Reeves has been given a £10 billion budget boost by the Bank of England, increasing pressure on her not to cut the pensioners’ winter fuel allowance, according to the Times.
- “Starmer initially failed to declare money towards clothing from Lord Alli” – Keir Starmer initially failed to disclose that he received £16,200 of free clothing from Labour donor Lord Waheed All, reports the FT.
- “PM says it would ‘cost the taxpayer a fortune’ if he didn’t accept free Arsenal tickets” – Sir Keir Starmer’s efforts to justify accepting free box tickets at Arsenal are making a difficult situation even more embarrassing, reports Sky News.
- “Keir Starmer’s glaring hypocrisy is why Two-Tier Keir is now a household name” – We can see Free Gear Keir or Two Tier Keir for exactly what he is – the same kind of crooked politician who puts himself before the rest of the country, says Matt Goodwin on his Substack.
- “Socialism means never having to say you’re sorry” – In opposition, Sir Keir Starmer liked to preach about Tory avarice. Meanwhile, he takes every freebie going, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Head of Civil Service expected to resign amid tensions with Sue Gray” – Britain’s most senior civil servant is expected to formally resign next month amid tensions with Sue Gray, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Hope Not Hate embeds itself into Labour Government” – Two of the six trustees of Hope Not Hate have now made their way into Parliament as Labour MPs. And it doesn’t stop there, says Guido Fawkes.
- “Labour councillor caught ‘covered in lipstick’ in illegal sex den promoted” – A Labour councillor who was caught in a police raid of an illegal brothel has been promoted to the leader of his local authority, reports GB News.
- “The gap between those in corporate and public sector jobs and those who are self employed or work in SMEs is growing ever wider” – Despite claims to be champions of growth, the Government is creating working cultures that are anything but and appear to be doing so at the behest of an increasingly privileged nomenklatura, says C.J. Strachan on his Substack.
- “‘I went from middle class to working class after McDonald’s job’” – Kemi Badenoch claims that serving burgers and cleaning toilets alongside single parents at McDonald’s taught her “humility”, according to Sky News.
- “Nigel Farage surrenders ‘all my shares’ in Reform U.K. as he gives up ownership ahead of party conference” – Reform members can now remove Farage, or any other party leader, in a no-confidence vote, reports GB News.
- “The Huw Edwards case exposes the sickening priorities of our justice system” – Why are pedophiles treated more leniently than those responsible for ‘grossly offensive’ speech? asks Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “The tyranny of lawyers” – The big lie is that our courts are above the fray and never beholden to the ephemeral influence of politics, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
- “U.K. interest rates held at 5%” – The Bank of England has held interest rates at 5% after voting by 8-1 for no change to monetary policy, reports the BBC.
- “High street giant warns of store closures after losing £30 million legal battle” – Next says it could be forced to close stores after losing a landmark legal battle over equal pay, according to the Sun.
- “‘Now we’re afraid of phones and laptops’: Beirut on edge after attacks” – After pagers and walkie-talkies exploded across Lebanon, people in the capital are wary and expect Hezbollah to retaliate against Israel, says Edmund Bower in the Times.
- “Lebanon warns Israeli invasion will be ‘doomsday’” – Lebanon’s ambassador to the U.K. says the Middle East is on a “perilous path” and an escalation of the conflict could lead to the radicalisation of a new generation in Europe, reports the Times.
- “Israeli jets disrupt Hezbollah leader’s speech” – Israeli jets triggered huge sonic booms during a speech by Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah, according to LBC.
- “It’s time to let Ukraine join Nato” – We must abandon the idea that the Ukrainians will do a deal. They have fought too long, says Boris Johnson in the Spectator.
- “Why the rapid death of North Sea risks leaving taxpayers on the hook for billions” – Reeves’s looming tax raid on oil and gas threatens an eye-watering bill for British households, writes Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.
- “Why Ed Miliband risks a smart meter shock” – If Labour intends to follow through on its Net Zero commitments, homeowners will not only have to be sold on the benefits of smart meters – they will need more confidence that the devices actually work, says James Titcomb in the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband’s Net Zero agenda will leave Britain in the dark” – If Labour continues to drive us down the path to Net Zero, none of us should be surprised to see more power cuts, more often, warns James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
- “SNP scrap ban on woodburning stoves after rural backlash” – The Scottish Government have scrapped plans to outlaw the use of wood and peat-burning sources of heating after concerns were raised by rural residents who rely on them during power cuts, reports the Scottish Express.
- “Abolish the NHS to save lives, institute demands” – In a new report, the IEA calls for the NHS to be replaced with a system of social insurance, given that countries with such models achieve far better outcomes.
- “3.9 million on sickness benefits as Covid continues to take toll” – According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, one in 10 adults of working age are on sickness benefits amid a surge in claims for mental health conditions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ministers have learnt nothing from lockdown” – Teachers should be more present in schools, not less. So why are politicians promoting the opposite? asks Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Covid emerged from animals at Wuhan ‘wet market’ insist scientists” – Scientists believe they’ve uncovered the true origin of the Covid pandemic – and have rejected the theory that it leaked from a laboratory, reports the Mail.
- “COVID-19 vaccine counting window issues confirmed in Government reports, and they won’t/can’t share the data” – New South Wales’s Covid vaccine data is being slammed for mixing up the jabbed and unjabbed, sparking suspicions of a government cover-up, writes Dr. Raphael Lataster on his Substack.
- “A stunning new paper suggests Covid jabs sharply raise the risk of death or heart failure after heart attacks” – A new Spanish study finds that Covid vaccines might double the risk of death or heart failure after a heart attack, says Alex Berenson on his Substack.
- “Collider bias and the problem with vaccine case-control studies” – On the WATN? Substack, Profs Norman Fenton and Martin Neil highlight how ‘collider bias’ can skew vaccine study results, revealing misleading efficacy claims in recent COVID-19 data reanalyses.
- “Brains of conservative voters have larger ‘fear centre’” – MRI scans show that the amygdala – the organ involved in processing negative stimuli such as threats – is smaller in those who see themselves as progressive, according to Health Imaging.
- “Conservatism and human nature” – Conservatives accept mankind’s flaws and value order and discipline, avoiding idealistic visions of a perfect society, writes Bo Winegard on the Aporia Substack.
- “The New Yorker doesn’t care about facts when they’re making shit up about Trump” – The Donald destroyed journalists’ ability to think clearly, but do they even care? wonders Paul D. Thacker on his Substack.
- “Biden-Harris border official claims cover-up as he was allegedly ordered to hide release of migrants” – The former Border Patrol official responsible for securing nearly 1,000 miles of America’s frontier claims the Biden-Harris administration intentionally covered up the ongoing migrant crisis, according to the NY Post.
- “The Amish: a control group for ‘technofeudalism’” – Because the Amish have rejected modern life, they have effectively become a control group for the ills of Big Tech, Big Education and corporatised medicine, says Tracy Thurman for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Free speech under global attack” – A Freedom Research video compilation of global attacks on free speech shows a concerted effort in different countries to push Western civilisation closer to authoritarianism.
- “Man who prayed for his unborn son near abortion goes on trial” – An Afghanistan veteran who “hid behind a tree” near an abortion clinic to silently pray for his unborn child has gone on trial accused of breaching a prohibition on protesting in the “buffer zone” surrounding abortion clinics, says the Mail.
- “Female pianists favoured over men under major competition’s rules” – The jury of the Leeds International Piano Competition has been instructed, in the case of a tie between a male and female contestant, to “consider advancing her first”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Charity head ‘won’t quit’ over hindering of rape victims’ access to female counsellors” – The head of a charity that oversees Scotland’s rape crisis centres has refused to quit after a report found that victims were “damaged” by a policy that obstructed their access to biologically female counsellors, says the Telegraph.
- “Scotland became the laboratory for trans extremism – and it’s not just the SNP’s fault” – North of the border, Holyrood is not alone in capitulating to gender extremism, notes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “How Britain ‘hugely overstated’ its trans population” – For the first time ever, Britain’s most trusted source of statistics stands accused of publishing false census data, says Sanchez Manning in the Telegraph.
- “The trouble with Trafalgar Square’s transgender tribute” – How and why did trans people become the focus of Londoners’ attention on the fourth plinth? asks Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “The latest fourth plinth excrescence proves Britain has become a self-loathing country” – The long march of gender ideology through the institutions has now arrived at the door of Trafalgar Square, says Lara Brown in the Telegraph.
- “Can a Dachshund be ‘genderfluid’?” – Let’s hope that with the case of the transgender Dachshund we have reached peak gender lunacy, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Schoolboy ‘allowed to identify as a wolf’” – A schoolboy is understood to have been allowed by his school to “identify” as a wolf after suffering from “species dysphoria”, according to GB News.
- “Ricky Gervais has become an anti-woke champion – but is it just his latest act?” – Ricky Gervais has charged into the culture wars – and gained a new Right-wing audience, says Liam Kelly in the Telegraph.
- ““Regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest”” – Pressure to ban X is growing in both America and Europe, warns Hannes Sarv on the Freedom Research Substack.
- “A singer in the UK is going viral for taking to the streets to sing the things he isn’t allowed to say on Facebook!” – Matt Wallace flags up a protest singer in Leicester Square on X.
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I would strongly advise John Gray to stick to his day job – philosophising, because it is clear from the above that he has done absolutely zero research on net zero.
“Remember, most climate scientists agree that once human-induced climate change is in the works, it goes on for decades or even centuries.”
Can you provide any proof of “human induced climate change?”
No. Well STFU!
Why is DS printing utter garbage such as this?
Not only DS, why is Uherd giving him a voice?
“ He thought that climate change would consist of sudden jumps and it could transform things quite quickly, in a couple of decades. We might be in the middle of it. That’s my view – I’m not a climate sceptic.”
’Sudden jumps’: according to the geological data ‘sudden’ is tens of thousands or millions of years.
There is a serious possibility that we’re now in the early stages of runaway climate change.
Really..? The only thing that is ‘running away’ is the hysterical reaction of people who have followed the hyperbole, but have forgotten to ask critical questions or think for themselves.
And your comments earlier today under New Round-up, and those of JeremyP99 with the graphs are equally valid here.
Mr Gray is a Bernard Looney…..
The great game was, in fact, simple paranoia; Russia then, as now, a paper tiger.
China seems likely, particularly economically, to follow the well trodden path of so many socialist fascist states, something to which Britain itself should pay heed….tin eared though its political apparatchiks currently appear…..
As long as people like John Gray, “political philosopher,” stipulate that emissions are causing a runaway climate crisis it doesn’t really matter what else he has to say. He’s giving the “CO2 will kill us all” loonies all the ammunition they need to destroy the west and kill billions world-wide with their insane Net Zero bollox.
Sad to say that at this time Exhibit A of the CO2 Will Kill Us All Loonies includes most Western governments.
Perhaps he can explain how CO2 at levels of 150ppm drove the climate out of Ice Ages, then at levels of 4 000pppm, 6 000ppm and above, managed to drive the climate out of tropical ages back into Ice Ages.
Until any of these idiots can explain that, I’m not interested in their ramblings.
“Worth reading in full.”
I don’t think so.
“There is a serious possibility that we’re now in the early stages of runaway climate change.”
Evidence please? There is nothing to indicate a ‘runaway climate change’, nothing. What does a runaway climate change look like and Michael Bay type films are not evidence? There is plenty of evidence that the inter-glacial that we are currently in will end sometime in the next 500 years, and end it will. If we have somehow, and inadvertently, manged to stop the next glacial expansion then we will have dodged a massive bullet, except the forces that dictate the glacial cycles have not stopped, so I don’t see how..
The Earth having two ice caps is rare in its history. Having even one is unusual. We are therefore in an unusually cold period of Earth’s history.
I have to be honest, if this is ‘progress’ then it’s not very progressive. This is hilarious. Can you imagine what Khant would do if this were black cabs in London?
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1705651803168366638
Texan Gold there Mogs.
Well if there is a climate emergency, it is not shown in the heat waves in the USA. Debunked by Steve Koonin and John Christy. Chapter 5 of Unsettled S Koonin -explains the trick to explain the scary looking graph in the Climate Science Special report from 2017.
The fact that Gray mentions James Lovelock in a positive way instantly tells you anything he says is going to be garbage. Lovelock was bonkers and only appeals to the Charles “I talk to plants” type of environmentalist. He one of the first people to claim that by some point this century the Arctic would be the only part of the Earth that would still be habitable. Why any media site is giving Gray any kind of a platform is beyond me.
Yes but Lovelock as he got older realised he was wrong and admitted so. He should at least be credited for that, because the current lot of eco socialist government funded data adjusters simply double down on their propaganda masquerading as science with no intention of ever admitting they are way off the mark.
I gave up reading Lovelock’s books/statements a long time ago. Did he say that there isn’t going to be runaway climate change, or did he just say he was wrong about how quickly it would happen?
“Charles “I talk to plants””. Always a good thing to talk to plants as you’re giving them CO2 (plant food) from your breath. Mind you in Charlie boy’s case there’s an awful amount of hot air.
JugEars has always been several sandwiches short of a picnic …. we’d be far better served with his sister at the helm.
As long as you don’t think the plants are talking back, or understand what you say.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66906201
Armed forces, suitably armed, to replace police who have handed in arms permits following the arrest of the officer after Chris Kaba killed.
It is difficult to know where to start with this jumble of mainly nonsense. The first thing I see is references to James Lovelock, but infact Lovelock actually said that he was WRONG about climate change. He said he thought he knew what was going to occur 30 years ago and even wrote books about it, but “it just hasn’t happened”. Gray then redeems himself a bit by criticising Net Zero and the lack of the technology required for it. But he quickly dives into more nonsense again by saying “There is a serious possibility that we are now in the early stages of runaway climate change”——–This is an evidence free statement. Then he doubles down on the nonsense with the following “Remember, most climate scientists agree that once human induced climate change is in the works it goes on for decades or even centuries. You can’t stop it” ———I have always liked the Daily Sceptic for the fact that we can all have a point of view. So my point of view on this article is that the author has jumped into a subject he knows little about. He has written a jumble of fictions with a few facts sprinkled on top.
I missed the facts.
Incidentally the nonsense was from John Gray – Richard was simply reporting what he said.
He did say Net Zero was nonsense. He did say we entered it before the technology for it was available and he did say that many of the raw materials for batteries etc were produced by China. So a few facts in amongst the evidence free nonsense.
How can you possibly describe this as excellent? It is utter rubbish. Gray accepts that humans are causing climate change and they might not be able to stop it. It talks about uncertainty about the climate initially but effectively he is saying the science if fixed and we are causing climate change. It is utter nonsense as many physicists point out and they are being slowly silenced because of it. Unherd is becoming a promoter of nonsense.
“John Gray questions the effectiveness of current climate policies, suggesting they were implemented prematurely and lacked the necessary technology and materials.”
The policies were designed by idiots to solve a non-existent problem, by replacing working existing technology with unworkable and non-existing technology based on the conceit that Mankind, not physics, controls the Universe and that a global coalition of vested interests can control the Earth’s hugely energetic heat budget by legislation, taxation, initiatives, fraud, grift, lies, wishing and Pagan Mother Earth worship.
“Remember, most climate scientists agree ….”. Oh pleeeease, not that old 97% of scientists agree rubbish? Yes, 97% of a small number of so-called scientists who are already sold on man-made warming.
100% of “climate scientists” agree that they like the funding.
Grey still seems to accept that they are required.