- “Labour’s tax raids to cost families £1,000 a year more from next week” – Families face a hammering of £1,000 to their annual budgets from next week as Labour’s tax raids and inflation-busting bill hikes come into force, according to the Mail.
- “The BBC makes cutting Britain’s benefits bill almost impossible” – Welfare has become the broadcaster’s sacred cow despite its increasing drain on the economy, says the Telegraph.
- “Two-tier Sentencing Council must be abolished says Labour MP” – Labour MP Jonathan Brash (nominative determinism?) has called for the Sentencing Council to be abolished because it is “completely out of step with the British people” – in a tie looking, erm, very Reform-coloured.
- “Nigel Farage pledges ban on civil servants WFH as he demands UK equivalent of DOGE” – Nigel Farage has pledged a ban on civil servants working from home as he proposed a British version of DOGE during a keynote speech for Reform UK, reports the Telegraph.
- “Studies that Misled the World” – On Trust the Evidence, Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson recall when Cochrane Grandees showed their true colours and betrayed science in the pandemic.
- “Labour considers using terror laws to nationalise British Steel” – Terror laws could be used to nationalise Britain’s last steel blast furnaces after their Chinese owner threatened to shut them down, reports the Telegraph.
- “Drivers face Hammersmith Bridge ban under reopening plans” – Plans to ban cars from crossing Hammersmith Bridge when it reopens due to environmental and cost reasons are being drawn up by Ministers in a move likely to infuriate thousands of drivers, the Telegraph reports.
- “UK’s Net Zero tsar: I understand why people are angry” – The Telegraph speaks to Emma Pinchbeck on the compromises needed to hit Britain’s 2050 climate change target.
- “How Just Stop Oil was policed to extinction” – JSO, the climate activist group, is planning its final protest next month after senior figures were given long prison sentences, says the Times.
- “Met smash down door of Quaker meeting house to arrest activists” – More than 20 Metropolitan Police officers broke down the front door of a Quaker meeting house to arrest six women who had met to discuss climate change and Gaza, the Times reports. According to the police, they were planning a protest that would ‘shut down’ London.
- “Father banned for screaming ‘you’re a boy’ at under-12 girl after ‘transgender rumours’” – A parent has received an 18-week touchline ban after screaming “you’re a f—–g boy” at a player rumoured (apparently falsely, though who really knows) to be transgender in an under-12s girls rugby match, the Telegraph reports.
- “Alec Baldwin is in trouble for ‘manterrupting’ his wife – but somebody had to” – Victoria Coren Mitchell defends (some) mansplaining in the Telegraph.
- “Gary Stevenson: trader turned Left-winger accused of telling ‘fibs’” – Former city trader turned Left-wing darling Gary Stevenson is accused of exaggerating and dissembling about his past in the Mail.
- “FCC to investigate Disney and ABC over potential violation in diversity practices” – The Federal Communications Commission has said that Disney and ABC’s DEI efforts may breach equal employment opportunity regulations, according to the Telegraph.
- “Zelensky may regret wishing for Putin’s death” – With most of the other real hardliners coming from the same homo sovieticus generation as Putin, it would be a toss of the coin, says Mark Galeotti in the Spectator.
- “Revealed: How people smugglers move millions around the world without leaving a trace” – Afghanistan’s ancient money transfer system allows migrants to pay their handlers without a paper trail, says the Telegraph.
- “Kathleen Stock case shows the rising bill for denying sex is real” – In the Times, Janice Turner says that while previously senior managers preferred to lose tribunal cases than have a showdown with vindictive woke staff, the times are changing as the bills pile up.
- “The Double Standard in the Human-Rights World” – In the Atlantic, Michael Powell wonders why organisations that explicitly valued impartiality and independence have become stridently critical of Israel.
- “Amanda Spielman’s peerage is richly deserved” – Amanda Spielman, the former Ofsted Chief Inspector, is set to become a Conservative peer after being nominated by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, the Telegraph reports.
- “Bulgarian at heart of Britain’s biggest benefit fraud could be back home with children within months” – A Bulgarian woman who was jailed for eight years for her role in the biggest benefit fraud ever uncovered in Britain could be sent home and reunited with her children within months, the Telegraph reveals, as she is set to be deported and Bulgaria has no plans to imprison her.
- “Why did I bother getting a job?” – In the Spectator, Sophia Falkner wonders why she bothered getting her first £18,000 job in London when families in the capital on benefits receive the same income as a household on £65,000.
- “Head of Prince Harry’s Sentebale charity accuses him of ‘harassment and bullying at scale’ after calling the Sussex brand ‘toxic’ – and claims they asked her to defend Meghan Markle against negative publicity” – The head of Prince Harry’s Sentebale charity, Sophie Chandauka, has accused him of “harassment and bullying at scale” after calling the Sussex brand “toxic”, reports the Mail.
- “Iran will target Britain’s Chagos base if Trump attacks” – Iran has warned that it will target British forces in the Chagos Islands if Donald Trump attacks the Middle Eastern nation, according to the Telegraph.
- “Councillor warned by police about helping parents who complained about school” – County councillor Michelle Vince was warned that she faced becoming a suspect if she helped parents who complained about their daughter’s school, as she says she fears her property will be raided, according to the Telegraph.
- “Arresting parents for complaining devalues the very idea of ‘harm’” – It’s not surprising the police are confused when our language has turned the mildest feelings into trauma, says Matthew Syed in the Times.
- “‘Arrogant’ BBC bosses rejected antisemitism training for staff” – Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director General, refused antisemitism training for the broadcaster, the Government’s adviser on anti-Jewish hatred, Lord Mann, has revealed, reports the Telegraph.
- “Hamas agrees to Gaza ceasefire proposal” – Hamas has agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal it received two days ago from mediators Egypt and Qatar, the Palestinian militant group’s chief said on Saturday, as Israeli media suggest Hamas needs the cessation to suppress the protests, according to the Telegraph.
- “How the West can defeat the evil death cults that murder with glee” – Douglas Murray offers his advice in the Mail.
- “We win if the Right unites: that is the lesson from Canada and Australia for the Tories and Reform” – The Trump effect is not a good one for many Right-wing parties outside of America, but to win the Right needs to unite, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Should young women really be working in men’s prisons?” – In the Telegraph, Camilla Tominey questions the wisdom of allowing young, inexperienced female prison officers to guard wily lags.
- “The Europeans don’t have a clue what they’re doing in Ukraine” – Europeans are threatening to sink Trump’s peace initiative with Putin, but what are they realistically proposing instead, asks Daniel DePetris in the Telegraph.
- “Rachel Zegler’s Snow White flop sparks anti-woke U-turn at Disney” – According to the Mail, Hollywood whistleblowers have revealed how trans actors and progressive-themed films are being dumped in a ‘crisis mode’ panic. We can but hope.
- “Record applications to top state sixth forms after VAT hike” – Record numbers of children, many from private schools, are applying to top state sixth forms for their A-levels, a rise partly driven by the introduction of VAT, according to head teachers, the Times reports.
- “Labour MP branded disgrace after she uses taxpayers’ cash to pay for dog” – Senior Labour MP and whip Taiwo Owatemi is using taxpayers’ cash to pay ‘pet rent’ so she can live with her cockapoo dog in London, the Sun reports.
- “Our warnings went unheeded: how neo-Marxists’ anti-racism destroyed British education – Part 3” – In TCW, Dr Frank Palmer laments that his and his colleague’s warnings in the 1980s fell on deaf ears.
- “USAID Officially Shuttered After Court Victory” – USAID has been officially shuttered after a federal appeals court on Friday determined that the Trump administration could continue dismantling it, reports ZeroHedge.
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It’s going to be a rerun of COVID.
Make up a global catastrophe. Force people to do all manner of insane things to avoid the “catastrophe”.
When catastrophe is averted, claim it was all the action taken that saved us.
Everybody will have been so comoletely indoctrinated and so invested in the supposed solutions that it will be impossible to convince them they’ve been duped.
That btw is pretty much the story of most government action.
This is a linear forecast of events. Reality is far more chaotic though.
I think it was Basil Fawlty who said “a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth”.
May have been someone else.
Judging by the smug visage of the accompanying photo, she looks like she needed more hugs as a child.
Usually attributed to Goebbels, and cited as such over half a million times on the Internet. But in fact there’s no evidence he ever said it, which kind of proves the point.
Goebbels, in fact, accused the English of stupidity in “telling a big lie and sticking to it.” “Vaccines are safe and effective.” “Russia has run out of ammunition.” “Britain is getting hotter year by year.” “Diversity is a traditional British value.” It seems he was right, doesn’t it?
I’d more or less heard the same, though it is April 1st!
And more bugs. Yum.
The ‘big lie’ quote is usually attributed to Joseph Goebbels!
Co2? Causes weather, seasons and climate?
There is 0 correlation between Co2 and climate. It is plant food. Necessary to make oxygen. I would like more of it please.
After sitting through 5 months of a shitty UK winter I would like some warmtarding too please.
Doesn’t Gaia emit 95% of the 0.04% Co2 trace chemical? Isn’t THE SCIENCE ™ suggesting we kill her to save her?
I don’t believe in the man-made catastrophic climate change narrative, but I think we should acknowledge that man does have some impact on the climate, mainly through the greenhouse effect. My understanding is that any contribution man has made through the greenhouse effect is pretty much at saturation point i.e. increases in atmospheric CO2 above the current level of around 410 parts per million will have negligible impact (see the attached diagram, which indicates a rise in CO2 from 400 ppm to 800 ppm increases temp by 0.4C and 400 to 1600 ppm results in 1C).
I also think it is disingenuous of us to talk of man’s share of CO2 emissions, since Gaia both emits (land, volcanoes, oceans) and absorbs (vegetation, oceans) CO2. So, while man’s share of emissions may be less than 5%, it will be a much higher % of net emissions (see attached diagram).
What bullshit.
98% of Co2 is reused.
Are you telling me that man’s Co2 ‘forces’ only a positive feedback loop and Gaia’s does not.
Greenhouse is horseshit.
There is no glass ceiling.
No need to be discourteous since MichaelM didn’t actually say that.
I think the big hitters on our side of the argument (ie those not buying the climate catastrophe narrative), such as Richard Lindzen and William Happer, do acknowledge the greenhouse effect and that the burning of fossil fuels has had a significant impact on the increase in atmospheric CO2 from 280 ppm to 410 ppm over the last 150-200 years.
I do agree with you that there is no glass ceiling round the Earth.
If you want to generate a halting problem in someone claiming that a large percentage of species have gone extinct due to climate change, ask them to name one.
The BBC are CLIMATE ACTIVISTS. They claim to be reporting on science. But in science you question everything, otherwise it is isn’t science you are dealing in. So by questioning NOTHING all the BBC reveal is that they are not reporting on science at all, they are reporting on “Official Science”. You can switch on TV News almost every day and hear of extreme weather, more floods, more droughts, more storms etc etc and most people busy with work and family life will just accept that as truth because they assume they are listening to investigative journalism. But in the real world there is no increase in the frequency or intensity of any type of weather event. ———— How can it be that our National Broadcaster is reporting the opposite of what is true and getting away with it? SKY NEWS with their “Climate Show” do something similar but we are not all forced to pay for SKY. ————-The mainstream media talk of the “Climate Emergency” and the “Climate Crisis”, but this is not the language of science, it is the language of politics. For many of the unsuspecting public it is difficult to grasp why misinformation on this industrial scale would be taking place. They think the issue is all about science, but don’t realise the issue is highly politicised and that there is a political agenda behind it all. That political agenda is the United Nations Sustainable Development, and if there is no increase in the frequency or intensity of any type of weather event then that whole political agenda collapses. So the idea that extreme weather is getting worse MUST be kept in the public’s eye. They must at all times be under the impression that floods and storms will kill millions and sea level rise will drown coastal cities. This is the biggest pseudo scientific fraud ever perpetrated and I am thoroughly embarrassed that the British Broadcasting Company is part of it.
We’re all doomed
But this time! It’s real, honest!
We can trace the decision to the infamous Jan-2006 seminar organised by Harrabin himself – the actual Harrabin, not an ancestor – entitled ‘Climate Change: The Challenge to Broadcasting.’
For several years the BBC stonewalled all enquiry on who the seminar’s attendees had been, though it was known that the Heads TV and Radio News and many senior executives were there. An internet archive search revealed in 2009 that only 3 scientists, none of them ‘climate’, were there, the rest of the attendees being emissaries of WWF, Greenpeace, Friends of the earth, etc.
The only journalist, Richard D North, described the BBC people present as ignorant, having done no background reading or research, and bent on whipping up the most hysterically alarmist picture possible.
The keynote speaker was the Australian ecologist Lord May. He was president of the Royal Society 2000-05 and had transformed it into a relentless evangeliser for global warming. The gist of his speech was that dissenters were so few and marginal they could be safely classed with flat-earthers and perpetual-motionists, and the BBC Charter obligation of impartiality could therefore be set aside.
No criterion has ever been set or even debated for restoring it, despite the fact that many eminent atmospheric physicists – profs Lindzen, Christy, Spencer – have denied that there is any climate crisis.
Wasn’t Lord May played by Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man? Hotspots in the Summer Isles.
Might I suggest some family connection to Dame June?
Don’t the Big Black Cock corporation realise how out of touch they are with the licence payers? Or, maybe they aren’t?
” I’d gladly pay twice the price for my television licence ”
happily stupid from Milton Keynes.
“Brainwashing, corrupt, biased” are some of the more moderate adjectives applied to the BBC by readers of Andrew Montford’s excellent 57 page pamphlet ‘The Propaganda Bureau.’
It should be compulsory reading for all, with lefties compelled to learn it by rote.
I’ve just been offered 450 quid and an apology by the BBC for harassment over the TV licence and subsequently lying to me.
It was beautiful, they thought they were being cute, but every email or letter they sent contained lies.
For example, they said I had no visits from am enforcement officer in 2020….I said I never said 2020. They then realised I’d had 3 visits but said it was “the other department’s fault” for withholding the information…and so on.
They could not put pen to paper or finger to keyboard without lying and it was the carelessness of their lies which was as galling as the harassment. Could have been written by Kirtsy Wark.
Result! But I suspect very few get a modest jackpot but are continually harassed in a Kafka-esque manner.
Maybe 1 in 800? Where have I heard that stat before?
What shocks me is the number of people that genuinely believe all this catastrophising nonsense. Extreme gullibility and an inability to question the validity of outlandish claims make the general population vulnerable to manipulation. When will they turn bbc off?
The people outside of Islington don’t even watch the British Bias Corporation, never mind paying the laughable licence fee. The access to objectivity and the truth from the Internet broadcasting news network has killed it.
Is it true or did you hear it on the BBC?
The BBC is now the Globalist and Government slut, used to control the official narrative with Ofcom, and the Trusted News Initiative (what a joke). Taxpayers are not just funding via the licenses but also through Government spending on advertising. Billy Boy has kindly given them over £12million. Other channels like Sky are similar.
The once proud bastion of truth and integrity across the globe is one of our worst enemies, working with Government and corporations to cause tremendous harm to our society.
Humanity-caused climate change advocates remind me of this –
In the past, in some civilizations, sacrifices were offered so that the sun would rise the next day.
Sacrifices were offered.
Sure enough the sun rose the next day.
Therefore proof that the sacrifices worked to cause the sun to rise.
The media increases readership and viewership by giving constant attention to a ‘crisis’.
It’s in their interest to hype every conspiracy theory about catastrophe and crisis.
Gets people attention and they want to read or view the news stories.
Why has this paper now been retracted?