- “Badenoch calls for national inquiry into ‘rape gangs’” – Kemi Badenoch has called for a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal after Elon Musk accused Keir Starmer of covering up failings as Director of Public Prosecutions, reports the BBC.
- “Labour blocks grooming gang inquiry into Starmer’s conduct as CPS head” – Labour has blocked an inquiry into Keir Starmer’s conduct as the head of the Crown Prosecution Service while investigating the Oldham child grooming scandal, says the Telegraph.
- “How Starmer was forced to admit CPS let down child victims of grooming gangs” – In 2012, Keir Starmer admitted that a generation of vulnerable girls had been let down by the justice system while he was in charge of the Crown Prosecution Service, reports the Telegraph.
- “A conspiracy of murmuring” – It has been quite surreal, as someone who has been writing about the grooming gangs scandal for years, to see the story burst so violently into the international consciousness over the past few days, says Ben Sixsmith on his Substack.
- “The truth about ‘grooming gangs’ is finally coming out” – For decades, some of the most vulnerable people in society have been betrayed by people in positions of power. Never again can political correctness be allowed to get in the way of justice, writes Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
- “Why would a self-proclaimed feminist refuse to hold an inquiry into the Oldham ‘rape gangs’?” – Jess Phillips presents herself as a champion of women and girls, yet she has refused to hold an inquiry into the systematic abuse of young, vulnerable working class girls by gangs of men in Oldham, notes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk calls for Jess Phillips to be jailed” – In the Spectator, Steerpike documents the escalating row between Elon Musk and Jess Phillips.
- “Elon Musk calls for release of Tommy Robinson: who is he?” – Elon Musk has taken on a new cause to start off the year, demanding the release of Tommy Robinson, writes Greg Heilman in Diario AS.
- “‘The scale of censorship in Britain is insane’” – Fraser Myers, Spiked’s Deputy Editor, interviews Greg Lukianoff, President of FIRE, for the Spiked podcast.
- “Starmer’s Thought Police” – Staying with Spiked, Brendon O’Neill interviews Toby about what Labour has in store for us in 2025 for his podcast.
- “Muslim convert jailed for plotting attack ‘stabs prison officers’” – A teenage Muslim convert jailed for plotting a music festival terror attack has reportedly stabbed 10 prison officers since being put behind bars, reports the Mail.
- “Labour loses 20 councillors in Starmer protest” – In the Spectator, Steerpike reacts to the extraordinary exodus of 20 councillors who have quit Labour in protest over the direction of the party under its new Prime Minister.
- “Why the people of Watford have already given up on Labour” – Keir Starmer swept into office with promises of change, but many have been left feeling disillusioned by his tenure as PM, says Rosa Silverman in the Telegraph.
- “Is Reform unstoppable?” – In the Spectator, Rod Liddle wonders whether Nigel Farage’s Reform can outmuscle Kemi Badenoch’s Tories and shift the political balance, or if the status quo will prevail.
- “Reform has an early lead in the race to revive real British conservatism” – Competition on the Right is a good thing. But thus far, the Tories have allowed Farage to make all the running, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Right move: will Britain benefit from the global conservative turn?” – The British public is not moving to the Left in line with its Government, write James Kanagasooriam and Patrick Flynn in the Spectator.
- “‘I left for Spain as soon as Labour won the election’” – Britain’s richest plumber Charlie Mullins reveals to the Telegraph’s Tom Haynes his fears that tax rises and new workers’ rights will decimate businesses.
- “Police fail to solve a single theft across third of neighbourhoods” – Police have failed to solve a single burglary, personal theft or even recover a stolen bike in 30% of neighbourhoods, according to Telegraph analysis.
- “Vice-chancellors at ‘struggling’ universities spent £1 million on trips abroad” – University vice-chancellors complaining about money shortages have spent almost £1 million on foreign trips over the past three years, reports the Times.
- “Don’t blame the free market for our hopeless university sector” – High pay for vice-chancellors has nothing to do with supposed capitalist greed – it’s quasi-nationalised, writes Mark Littlewood in the Telegraph.
- “‘I’m a new kind of Christian’: Jordan Peterson on faith, family and the future of the Right” – The Spectator’s Michael Gove speaks to Prof. Jordan Peterson about supernatural relationships, the folly of Net Zero and what’s next for Europe.
- “‘Can I be cancelled twice?’” – In the Spectator, Toby explores why the effort to cancel him a second time has been so feeble.
- “In our lifetime: reflections on change” – On Substack, Laura Dodsworth laments the rapid shifts reshaping society.
- “Don’t go outside! NHS warns Brits to stock up and brace for snow” – The NHS has issued an urgent warning, telling people not to venture outside as the U.K. braces for three days of snowfall and a -10°C ice blast this weekend, reports the Mail.
- “Ban hybrid cars or make Britain a laughing stock, Starmer urged” – Net Zero lobbyists claim that letting some hybrids remain on sale after 2030 would be a “catastrophic misstep”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Environment Agency ramps up spending on diesel cars despite 2030 ban” – Despite government plans to ban new diesel car sales by 2030, the Environment Agency has ramped up spending on maintaining its diesel fleet, hitting £2.5 million in 2023-24, reports the Telegraph.
- “Green extremists just lost the war on cows” – In the Telegraph, Jamie Blackett celebrates the birth of Hilda, a less-gassy calf that could save cattle farming from green extremists.
- “Morgan Stanley joins exodus from Mark Carney’s Net Zero banking group” – Morgan Stanley has quit Mark Carney’s Net Zero banking group, joining a broader Wall Street exodus as Donald Trump prepares to re-enter the White House, reports the Financial Post.
- “Green electricity costs a bundle” – The notion that solar and wind power save money is an environmentalist lie, says Bjorn Lomborg in the WSJ.
- “Sweden records lowest number of asylum applications since 1997” – For the first time in over 50 years, Sweden has net emigration, reports the Mail.
- “Palestinian Authority suspends Al Jazeera over ‘misinformation’ and ‘incitement’” – Al Jazeera’s West Bank operations will be suspended by the Palestinian Authority following coverage of its clashes with terror groups, says the BBC.
- “Weight-loss surgery patient died after hospital ‘failures’ during junior doctors’ strike” – A weight-loss surgery patient has died due to a series of “failures” by a hospital to treat complications that arose from a procedure during a junior doctors’ strike, reports LBC.
- “How real is your ADHD?” – The increased incidence of mental health problems has been a boon for private doctors, says Max Pemberton in the Spectator.
- “Scientists develop vaccine test that predicts how long immunity lasts” – A blood test that can predict how long vaccine immunity will last is being developed by scientists, reports FOX 28.
- “COVID-19 ‘vaccination’ linked to a 141% increased risk of transverse myelitis within 42 days of injection” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, Nicolas Hulscher highlights a troubling new study showing a 141% increased risk of acute transverse myelitis within 42 days of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
- “FDA lab uncovers excess DNA contamination in COVID-19 vaccines” – On Substack, Dr. Maryanne Demasi reveals explosive findings from an FDA lab study showing excessively high levels of DNA contamination in Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.
- “Too woke? BBC ‘control’? The stars who refuse to play Glastonbury” – From the BBC’s “corporate control” to rows over appearance fees and claims of being “too woke”, the Mail highlights how a host of musicians are turning their backs on the world’s biggest festival.
- “When will the BBC get over its bizarre obsession with drag queens?” – It seems the national broadcaster won’t be happy until every programme on its schedule features a man dressed as a woman, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Nick Clegg exits Facebook as big tech bows to Trump” – Nick Clegg has announced he will leave his role at Facebook-owner Meta weeks before Donald Trump returns to power, reports the Telegraph.
- “Culture of silence” – On GB News, Charlie Peters issues a stark warning: after exposing Rotherham’s corrupt leaders on GB News in 2022 and watching them fall in 2023, he’s setting his sights on even bigger targets in 2025. Get ready – he’s coming for you.
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Does anyone else find it odd that we are re-introducing beavers because their dams reduce flooding, whilst removing dams because they interfere with nature?
And yet Beavers are good at felling trees, ask any Game keeper.
It’s not odd. It is because greens are not very clever. They are a product of the past 50 years of apalling tertiary education. Also this is normally what happens when you have female stem graduates in charge of stuff. Sack them all
Whenever Imperial College is mentioned as a source of data early in the story, you know where it’s heading.
I thought you were going to say, you stop reading the article.
Spain has been leading Europe’s dam removal programme, with 108 dams taken down alone in 2021, and an estimated 200 dams removed from its rivers in total since the EU’s Water Framework Directive was issued: https://expose-news.com/2024/11/06/are-dam-removal-projects-the-cause/.
GREEN Politics is destroying the western world. We can see the almighty mess Germany has got itself in. The UK now has the highest electricity prices in the entire world and everywhere Greens go they leave a trail of destruction in their wake. They are a a pseudo-scientific fraud and motivated entirely by ideology that uses the environment and the planet as the excuse for every one of their policies, which amount to Central Planning and total control of every aspect of people’s lives (Communism) and the photo above shows us the result. ——These people are being booted out now in Germany and only when the entire world gets rid of this garbage can we all start to flourish and live normally free from this tyranny. ——Here in the UK we unfortunately are heading in the wrong direction (as usual) but Miliband and Labour must be removed before our mothers freeze to death in their house and the blackouts come thick and fast.
Same as the “unprecedented” flooding of the Somerset Levels a decade ago.
It was only unprecedented in the sense that there were no official records of the extent of flooding before Civil Engineering and the Levels were drained.
The Eco Nutters at the Environment Agency thought it was a good idea not to dredge the drainage channels in the interests of prioritising and protecting wildlife …. most of which drowned when the floods occurred.
And remember some farmer in Herefordshire who dredged a river, and saved local houses from being flooded, the busy-body Council took legal action against him. Can’t have independent people looking after locals can we!
Ben, is it or is it not true that a number of flood-control dams in the Valencia catchment have been de-commissioned for environmental reasons?
I went to Valencia a few years ago and the town was very proud of their solution to constant flooding that used to happen on a regular basis. They diverted the river that ran through the centre of town and made the river bed into a park.
This brief article from 2012 explains the scheme.
https://metropolismag.com/projects/how-valencia-turned-crisis-river-into-park/
I wonder if the removal of dams upstream then affected this scheme in unimaginable, or at least un-modeled ways?
It seems to be standard practice in climate modelling to add uniformly distributed noise to some of the continuous variables. This is the only application I’ve heard of in scientific simulation and I’ve never seen anything but a hand waving justification. As Einstein might have said, God does not play die.
What a great couple Ferguson and Otto. Maybe they could model a relationship together?
Preferably while locked in a room in the basement of Imperial.
A lot of towns in the hilly area of Valencia are built in river valleys, flooding has happened before and will happen again,very rarely reported until now, a point completely ignored by the likes of the BBC
“… are in the grip of a movement that requires the demolition of dams. On that bizarre green view, dams degrade society’s relationship with nature.”
The same movement wants us to build dams to provide pumped storage to solve the problem of unsustainable, unreliable, intermittent wind/solar power.
Funny old World.
Global warmimg is not the real problem, it is global idiocy.
“I call this sport eco-hyperreality,” I have a better name for this and all the other numerical gibberish that underpins the CAGW scam – ‘arithromancy’. Wish I could claim authorship, but honesty forbids…
If anyone is interested, please read Professor Willie Soon, an astrophysicist. He explains very clearly, there is no man made climate change. Watch his interview on X with Tucker Carlson, if you are interested in the truth about “climate change”.
Most on this list are converts. The problem is how to get his and many other similar messages out into and accepted by the majority of the global population.
This Green ideology is basically the return of Paganism. If something goes wrong, it is because we have displeased the gods of the natural world.
Our world has turned its back on Christianity and re-embraced the primitive religion that Boadicea would have respected and probably followed. See The Wicker Man for further details.
The Viz, again.
So dams are wholly unnatural, engineered artefacts of culture.
But wind turbines and solar farms aren’t?
At least dams are nominally functional and worthwhile.