- “U.S. election 2024 results: when will we know who won?” – Once polls close on Tuesday, a winner may not be projected for several hours, days or even weeks, according to the BBC.
- “Voter discontent does not bode well for Kamala Harris” – Early exit polls have revealed widespread negativity about the state of the nation, dealing a blow to Harris’s chances of winning the White House, notes David Charter in the Times.
- “Google accused of election interference” – Google has been accused of election interference for showing voters where they can vote for Kamala Harris – but not for Donald Trump, according to the Mail.
- “Musk sends ‘emergency squad’ to secure Pennsylvania votes” – Elon Musk’s America PAC has deployed an “emergency squad” to Pennsylvania to help Trump voters fix ballot errors in a costly, last-minute push to secure crucial votes, reports the Telegraph.
- “Insiders reveal ‘lonely’ Biden’s humiliating last days in office” – Behind closed doors, the message from the Harris campaign to Joe Biden has been clear: stay away, writes Emily Goodin in the Mail.
- “How Robert F. Kennedy made fluoride an unexpected election issue” – Donald Trump has backed RFK Jr.’s idea to remove fluoride from drinking water, says Joe Barnes in the Telegraph.
- “The Trump-Harris election has broken America” – After months of the Donald Trump–Joe Biden–Kamala Harris drama, the United States is in a state of nervous exhaustion, writes Freddy Gray in the Spectator.
- “‘Why I hope Trump will win’” – Today, Americans will elect a new president, and I hope that new president will be Donald J. Trump, says Eugyppius on his Substack.
- “For Britain, it has to be Trump” – The Pimlico Journal makes the case that, contrary to the opinion of most Britons, a Donald Trump victory would be better for Britain than a Kamala Harris victory.
- “What happens if Trump loses the election?” – With memories of the 2021 Capitol riots still fresh in people’s minds, many are hoping there will not be a repeat, writes Rozina Sabur in the Telegraph.
- “What will happen if Trump loses? The threat of civil war examined” – Whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris wins the U.S. election, specialists disagree on only one thing: how catastrophic the escalation in violence will be, says Tom Newton Dunn in the Times.
- “‘F— around and find out’: DA warns election protesters as U.S. braces for violence” – Voters thinking about interfering with the U.S. election were warned not to “f— around” by the DA of Pennsylvania as polls opened in one of the most tense votes in modern history, according to the Telegraph.
- “Fury at BBC Chris Kaba documentary showing an ‘utter lack of balance’” – Police officers have slammed the BBC for its “utter lack of balance” in a new Panorama documentary about the fatal shooting of violent gang member Chris Kaba, reports the Mail.
- “Watchdog investigator defends decision that led to Chris Kaba trial” – The man who led the investigation into the shooting of Chris Kaba has defended the decision that led to a firearms officer being unsuccessfully tried for murder, says the BBC.
- “Has the police watchdog learnt nothing from the Chris Kaba debacle?” – A BBC Panorama documentary suggests that the Independent Office for Police Conduct has learned nothing from the Chris Kaba case, writes Stephen Webb in the Spectator.
- “Britain to take dozens of asylum seekers from Chagos Islands” – Britain is to take dozens of asylum seekers from the Chagos Islands instead of sending them to St. Helena or Rwanda, reports the Telegraph. Shock!
- “The Government must stop hiding the true costs of immigration” – Despite immigration ranking as a top public concern, the Government falls short on delivering clear, thorough data to fuel informed debate, says Guy Dampier in the Telegraph.
- “Foreign criminals could be deported immediately after conviction to free up jail space” – Ministers are considering deporting foreign offenders convicted in the U.K. immediately, bypassing British prisons to ease overcrowding, according to the Telegraph.
- “Don’t mess with farmers, Rachel Reeves. You’ll find yourself in the mud” – Politicians who take on farmers almost always end up in a mess, warns Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Farmers threaten ‘sewage strike’ over inheritance tax raid” – Farmers have threatened to co-ordinate a “sewage sludge strike” after the Chancellor outlined plans to impose inheritance tax on their properties, reports GB News.
- “Farming tax raid puts food security at risk, warn suppliers” – Suppliers warn that Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax raid on farmers will put food security at risk and leave Britain more reliant on foreign imports, says the Telegraph.
- “Three quarters of British food will be hit by Reeves’s tax raid, warn farmers” – Farmers warn that Rachel Reeves’ inheritance tax changes will hit three-quarters of British food production, risking investment cuts, land sales and food security, reports the Independent.
- “Inheritance tax reform may free up land for renewable energy projects” – A renewable energy expert has noted that inheritance tax changes announced in the Labour Budget will make more agricultural land available for renewable energy projects across the U.K., according to Pinsent Masons.
- “Foreign Office pleads for discounts from private schools after VAT raid” – The Foreign Office has pleaded with private schools to roll out discounts for diplomats after the Government’s VAT raid on fees, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bridget Phillipson in hypocrisy row after promising graduates will ‘pay less’” – Bridget Phillipson is facing another hypocrisy row after promising that graduates will “pay less under Labour” before raising tuition fees, according to the Telegraph.
- “Bridget Phillipson’s latest humiliation is good news for Britain” – Hiking tuition fees might be politically calamitous for Labour – but it’s the only way to fix our decaying university sector, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “One more shock would vaporise Rachel Reeves’ grand plans” – The Chancellor is wasting her one shot at arresting the U.K.’s seemingly inevitable decline, writes Ben Wright in the Telegraph.
- “From policing to tax, Keir is two-tier on everything” – We are moving towards a sharply-divided economic setup between the “chosen” public sector workers and their private sector counterparts, warns Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “Lying Labour” – The only black hole in this country is the one Labour has dug for itself, says Jack Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Britain is on course for an almighty fiscal reckoning” – Labour’s plans to ramp up borrowing and spending are leaving the country just one crisis away from catastrophe, warns Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “The ‘very dangerous’ $1 trillion bet ringing alarm bells in Britain” – Trump and Harris’s debt indifference risks a U.S. fiscal collapse that could trigger global chaos, with the U.K. already bracing for the fallout, writes Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
- “Kemi Badenoch accused of ‘giving jobs to friends’ in cabinet reshuffle” – Kemi Badenoch’s most strident backers will join her on the front bench on Wednesday after the new Tory leader rewarded loyalty when appointing her Shadow Cabinet, reports the Times.
- “Reform membership has surged since Badenoch win: Farage” – It seems Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage won’t be setting their differences aside any time soon, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “The Left’s attack on Badenoch shows loathing for black Tories” – Left-wingers have been unable to countenance a member of an ethnic minority rising to a position of influence while failing to share their sense of grievance and victimhood, writes Dr. Rakib Ehsan in the Mail.
- “Hunt’s Treasury broke the law by hiding ‘black hole’, OBR chief suggests” – The head of the U.K.’s fiscal watchdog claims Treasury officials may have illegally concealed the Budget “black hole” passed to the Labour Government, according to the Telegraph.
- “New Tory joint chairman backed sale of Telegraph to UAE” – A former minister who endorsed the sale of the Telegraph to an Abu Dhabi-backed fund has been given a key Shadow Cabinet role by Kemi Badenoch, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why Miliband’s Net Zero revolution could drive the countryside to Reform” – Ed Miliband’s plan to decarbonise Britain’s electricity supply will change the topography of Britain’s countryside and the views from our shores – and may yet redraw the political map too, say Jonathan Leake and Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
- “Millions more households to be asked to switch off to hit Ed Miliband’s Net Zero targets” – Millions more households could be asked to regularly switch off light and appliances under Ed Miliband’s plan for a clean power grid by 2030, reports the Telegraph.
- “If Net Zero means letting Britain go dark, Labour are finished” – Ed Miliband can’t seriously expect British voters to ration their electricity usage, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “A zealot’s delusion can’t prevent blackouts” – The Neso report is not a vindication of Mr. Miliband’s approach but a warning of how dangerous it has become, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “‘Dunkelflaute’ sends wind power generation plummeting in U.K. and Germany” – A “Dunkelflaute” weather lull has crippled wind power generation across the U.K., Germany and northern Europe, reports the Telegraph.
- “Flooding facts drowned by climate hysteria: the BBC ignores Spain’s weather history” – The BBC’s reporting ignores Spain’s long history of catastrophic floods due to many of its cities being situated in narrow mountain valleys, say Anthony Watts and H. Sterling Burnett in WUWT?
- “Netanyahu offers Hamas $1 million for each hostage and amnesty for October 7th kidnappers” – Benjamin Netanyahu has offered a new deal to Hamas that would see Israel pay $1 million for each of the remaining October 7th hostages and allow their captors to leave, reports the Telegraph.
- “Benjamin Netanyahu sacks Defence Minister Yoav Gallant” – Israel’s Prime Minister has sacked his Defence Minister over a breakdown in trust during the Gaza war against Hamas, says the Mail.
- “Asda axes jobs and orders staff back to the office three days a week” – Asda is ordering staff back to the office at least three days a week, while also cutting jobs in an attempt to halt the supermarket’s decline, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s hospital smoking ban is doomed to fail” – The idea that the Tobacco and Vapes Bill could prevent smoking near hospitals and schools is a dishonest illusion, says Dr. Druin Burch in the Spectator.
- “The NHS needs less money, not more” – Rachel Reeves is about to throw another £20 billion at the NHS, but there’s a real risk it will go to waste in the name of inclusion, warns Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Turbo cancers are rapidly forming, spreading and mutating” – On YouTube, Dr. John Campbell highlights a troubling surge in “turbo cancers” coinciding with the Covid vaccine rollout.
- “Over £14 billion wiped off AstraZeneca amid China fears” – AstraZeneca has suffered a £14 billion share price hit after Chinese media reported more details about an investigation into the British drug giant, reports the Guardian.
- “Conference on exposure of children to wireless radiation in schools” – On Substack, Gillian Jamieson highlights a November 9th conference on a neglected topic in the smartphones-and-kids debate: health risks from wireless radiation.
- “A more practical argument for free speech” – We should value free expression not so much for the truths it may reveal as for the vices it keeps in check, says Gregory Conti in City Journal.
- “Council worker fired for ‘offensive’ pronouns ordered to pay £12,000” – A council worker who protested against the use of woke pronouns has been hit with a £12,000 legal bill, reports the Mail.
- “Imane Khelif is a biological man, new ‘leaked’ report claims” – New calls for Olympics gender row boxer Imane Khelif to be stripped of his gold medal have emerged after a “leaked” report reveals he is a biological man, says the Mail.
- “What is ‘gender identity’?” – Why are so many government policies based on a concept of “gender identity” that no one can define? wonders Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
- “Kamala pretends to talk to a voter on the phone but mistakenly shows that her phone is open to the camera app” – Libs of TikTok posts a video of the Democratic candidate engaging in yet another deception.
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Bless you all. Time to ramp up campaigning for our farmers, political prisoners and rejection of all the madness over (harmful) medications, trans-treatments and climate fearmongering. It’s long overdue time to take back control of our democracy and too many still turning a blind eye to the tyranny we are under.
Time to get a generator and a gas bottle
The current lull in the wind and all the mind-blowing talk of wrecking the economy in order to cover the land in power cables has set me thinking. A few years back when we had our kitchen done up we changed the old bottle gas hob for an electric hob, it has been great much cleaner and no more lugging gas bottles around and checking the dial to see if you had enough gas to get through Christmas, But as things have turned out it looks like this change may have been a mistake if there will be no electric to power the hob. When we went to a recent BT open day in Okehampton about the change to digital phones, BT were talking about installing an £80 back up battery to power the phone when there is a power cut. Thankfully we have a wood-burner as our oil boiler needs electric for the controls and pump.
Maybe it is time to bite the bullet, forget changing the car and buy a generator? Does anyone have any tips on the best generator to get to run a boiler, a freezer and a few lights?
For me, Hyundai DHY8000SELR 6kW Silenced Long Run Diesel generator. Enough power and capacity (with a few extra cans) to run the entire house for several days, including cooking.
However the problem with modern electronics is that they depend on very even voltage. So A bit risky running computers, and therefore internet phones, and LED lights on faders sometimes behave a bit oddly, too.
Ideally situate a little away from the house as “silenced” is a euphemism for “noisy,” and you’ll need to get the house electrics modified to switch between mains and generator.
An alternative to running a diesel generator could be some solar PV accompanied by a storage battery (not cheap by comparison), as long as the kit is designed to allow the inverter to operate when the input supply from the grid is dead. You could also avoid exporting surplus generation that way. Not good in winter, though.
I have installed a cheap inverter/charger with a 130ah battery, this will keep my gas boiler running for 12 hours ish, cost 400 quid, have smaller UPS units running router and one living room table lamp, and another that can run fridge/freezer for a day, cheap, and optimistically hoping never to be used, about to fit a wood burner, if the power does go, how long? We have already experienced short period failures, several hours, usually overnight so not noticed…. UPS systems generally cheaper, but limited supply capability, worth looking into.
Interesting. Although it may be that those that rely on overhead distribution cabling, rather than buried, failures that affect buried distribution are also a fact of life. A few minutes here: https://youtu.be/LS8VFhRMsYY This happened in quite a wide area, perhaps on account of the use of some cheap and nasty cable about 40 years ago.
We did something similar. We have mains gas to our boiler, but none to the kitchen, so we installed an induction hob 8 years ago. I think we should bite the bullet now, and get a gas hob and gas fire installed in the living room. We’re too old to be thinking about a camping stove, not safe for us in our mid seventies.
I’ve invested in an EcoFlow battery / inverter / solar charger unit, with 2 extra batteries. You can get them officially reconned on eBay from EcoFlow direct, like new condition, and a fair chunk cheaper. I also bought a 2200w Hyundai petrol generator to recharge battery pack if needed – input rate can be controlled . Wired mine up so it’s always on, and always charged and passing power through to some maintained devices, principally fridge/freezer/boiler/network/tv/phone etc – all pretty low current stuff. Cutover is 30ms or so – not quite UPS level but good enough for backup use.
I use 6 second hand solar panels mounted to side south wall of house in case solar is needed – not so much use in winter, but v.good in summer.
ecoflow kit isn’t the cheapest, however it’s very well made and simple enough to use. One note on boilers, generally they need a bonded neutral for their flame detection to work so they stay fired up, off grid devices like EcoFlow don’t do this by default, they have a floating neutral, so you’ll need a simple adapter plug or the EcoFlow adapter to do same. Most house wiring already has neutral bonded to ground…
Hoping to have at least some backup with this investment. Log burner is next on the list.
Forgot to add – the battery allows silent power provision overnight and for most of day, and would, in my case, reduce petrol generator use (and therefore fuel use) to an hour or so a day. Although small generators can be quieter, they are far from silent.
By Jove, it seems America will get back on track. Looks like Trump did it. The muppet meltdown on Twitter is gold.
https://x.com/dom_lucre/status/1854047456314404951
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1854050838710231317
Republicans won the Senate. Trump has 96% chance of winning. As they’re saying, it’s “too big to rig” despite multiple truck-loads of ballots still being bussed in. What, the Deep State going to off him now?
Harris team not speaking to media and she didn’t show at her event in Washington, leaving many of her voters pissed. Demtards need to get on that copium, stat.
DT on the path to MAGA and hopefully a victory for the millions of fruitcakes, loonies, deplorables and pieces of garbage all over the still free World.
He’s basically done it. His lead is too great. I don’t think there’s anything the wokerati villains can pull out the bag now.
https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1854046899155660983
Fingers crossed. With democrats involved I say get to 270 then celebrate but it looks like 2016 again. Thank goodness.
I think Labour might want to appoint a different Foreign Secretary, lol!
Lammy is a buffoon. I know most of the front bench are but he’s the one that could cause an international incident with his utter stupidity, not only with Trump.
Sadly that’s the way it will be seen by many but I hope we can reset the discourse by encouraging civilised debate about the challenges we face, not least in coping with a very disillusioned section of society. Hopefully DT’s election will lead to a suppression of the technocrats and high-minded people who think they know best but clearly don’t. A lot of people need to learn to think for themselves and accept that living in a society run by “elites” leads to tyranny.
The shelf life of quite a few articles doesn’t look good! However, some will get paid for speculative articles, I suppose.
Yes. A lot of commentators exposed as being out of touch and not worth listening to.
Shirley not?
“Flooding facts drowned by climate hysteria: the BBC ignores Spain’s weather history” was worth reading. It criticises the reporting style of that lot, and others promoting the “climate change” concept – but does not say anything about avoiding investment in worthwhile improvements to reduce the risk of those occurrences, that seem to be fairly regular. That could range across agriculture to infrastructure, and could be worth paying for up front.
Spain has apparently been removing dams like crazy to meet EU green objectives. I’m sure that has nothing to do with the flooding.
So at a guess those weren’t hydro-electric dams?
I don’t understand why removing dams would be part of EU green dogma? Anyone got some insight on this?
Apparently to restore the natural ecology from man’s evil depradations. Try this.
Thank you.
While the Valencians were throwing mud at the Spanish King & Queen, as if it’s somehow their fault, nobody mentioned the Moroccan Cloud-Seeding programme that has also caused the recent floods in the Sahara Desert.
Minister: 70 Cloud Seeding Operations Conducted in Morocco in 2024
“Millions more households to be asked to switch off to hit Ed Miliband’s Net Zero targets
Well, I don’t know about anyone else, but we are already very careful with electricity as it’s so darn expensive – no unnecessary lights, stuff not left on standby etc. What I actually think this means is consumers will be threatened with total loss of power unless they voluntarily turn everything off. I do wonder how much pressure the current gloomy and still conditions are placing on the grid already, not that that would deter mad Milliband from his crazy project.
https://gridwatch.co.uk/ is quite good for this. As of the date of writing if you look at yesterday’s chart of ten minute averages you can see that very little contribution was made by wind (pale blue) and barely see the contribution of solar (bright yellow). Instead the contribution of gas generation is enormous; the contribution from the France interconnect (pink) is far larger than solar and wind combined. Compare that with the ‘last month’ chart and you can see that solar and wind is currently unusually low – which is precisely why we can’t rely on it.
Gridwatch is great and gives us a set of pre-digested charts but I’d love to get into the underlying data myself to answer questions like ‘how often does power from international interconnects exceed domestic wind and solar?’. Their ‘download’ link has never worked for me – maybe I’m doing something wrong.
On the subject of interconnects: given the widespread dull and still weather in Northern Europe, how soon before France tells the UK to jog on while they look after Germany’s needs instead?
How can solar power be reconciled with cloud dimming? It can’t. So why is it going on?
‘cos it’s Green doncha know.
No, no! She meant less than they would otherwise have had to do. Honest! And anyway, she didn’t know how bad things were! It was the evil Tories wot dun it!
Ed Miliband can’t seriously expect British voters to ration their electricity usage, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
He absolutely can. I have more than one friend who proudly posts Facebook footage of their young families having “candlelight suppers” and watching a film on a precharged tablet, all in the name of rationing and Net Zero (no, of course they wouldn’t own a tablet if they REALLY thought the world was being destroyed). Lots of people love that kind of thing, it seems to speak to something deep inside them. You know the ones, the same ones who will be acting like the world is ending today because Trump might win (quote of the day: “What a sad day for humanity and the world”).
“Britain to take dozens of asylum seekers from Chagos Islands”
They are all part of the Tamil Horde that invaded the island of Buddhist Sri Lanka, causing endless war, death and destruction.
There is no reason these Fake Refugees cannot be sent back to their ancestral homeland of Tamil Nadu, a vast area covering the south of India.
Planned Mersey tidal power scheme: https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/09/23/ps35bn-mersey-tidal-power-scheme-reaches-two-planning-milestones?utm_source=related-content Guess who’s in favour of it.