- “What is Labour doing to fix the grooming gangs scandal?” – In the Spectator, David Shipley blasts Labour’s feeble response to the grooming gangs scandal.
- “Labour has failed the victims of ‘grooming gangs’ again” – In the Spectator, Hardeep Singh argues that Labour has once again failed the victims of grooming gangs by prioritising vote-chasing over justice.
- “Labour’s grooming gangs position is contemptible” – In the Spectator, Stephen Pollard slams the Government’s refusal to hold a national inquiry into rape gangs, branding it a cowardly betrayal that prioritises political sensitivities over justice for victims.
- “If Labour buries the grooming gangs scandal, it will be the greatest disgrace in political history” – Instead of a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal, we’re getting a patchwork of council cover-ups, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “The moment in the ‘grooming gangs’ debate that shamed Jess Phillips” – In the Spectator, Brendan O’Neill slams Jess Phillips for her dismissive body language and response to the rape gangs scandal.
- “Hamas uses ECHR to challenge terror group status” – Hamas is using the European Convention of Human Rights to challenge its proscription as a terrorist organisation in the UK, reports the Telegraph.
- “Police force blocks white applicants to boost diversity” – West Yorkshire Police has temporarily blocked applications from white British candidates in an attempt to boost diversity, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Reeves rejects ‘Buy British’ campaign as a response to US tariffs” – Rachel Reeves has distanced herself from a campaign urging people to “buy British” in the wake of Trump hitting UK exporters with trade tariffs, reports the Mail.
- “Nandy changes her tune on Trump trade deal” – The Spectator’s Steerpike takes aim at Lisa Nandy for her U-turn on Trump trade talks.
- “Covid made me commit crime, claims drug dealer spared deportation” – A convicted cannabis dealer has been spared deportation after claiming that he only committed the crime because he ran out of money during the Covid pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Who will crack down on Britain’s corrupt prison governors?” – It’s very rare for a prison governor to face justice, no matter what they’ve done, writes David Shipley in the Spectator.
- “What caused Birmingham’s bin strikes?” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark argues that Birmingham’s bin strikes are the direct result of a decades-old equal pay law.
- “The Birmingham bin strike is a symptom of British decline” – The Birmingham bin strike is a mess made by local-government idiocy and ‘equalities’ law run amok, says Hugo Timms in Spiked.
- “The world isn’t admiring Starmer’s Britain, it’s mocking us” – From Diego Garcia to the Elgin Marbles, the Labour Government is simply unwilling to stand up for Britain’s interests, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “BBC spends £500,000 restoring paedophile’s sculpture” – The BBC has spent more than £500,000 restoring a controversial statue created by a paedophile that sits outside its London HQ, reports the Telegraph.
- “He’s cost taxpayers £200 million: meet Britain’s biggest Nimby” – In the Telegraph, Jonathan Ford profiles anti-road campaigner Chris Todd who has used judicial reviews to delay road projects worth £2.5 billion, costing the British taxpayer up to £300 million.
- “Are the wheels finally coming off Net Zero?” – So long as Labour continues to trumpet its attachment to Net Zero, it will be painting itself into a corner, warns Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Merz’s new coalition is bad news for Germany” – The CDU’s Friedrich Merz has just formalised the most spectacular betrayal of centre-Right voters in modern German history, says Henry Donovan in the Spectator.
- “Markets rebound as Trump makes stunning U-turn on tariffs” – White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt says the media – not Donald Trump’s tariffs – was responsible for tanking global markets, leaving tens of millions of everyday Americans fearing for their jobs, according to the Mail.
- “MAGA is shattering before America’s eyes” – The spat between Musk and the President’s trade adviser is symptomatic of a major flaw with the MAGA project, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “The hidden logic behind Trump’s market meltdown” – While Trump’s plan remains deeply flawed, that does not mean it is completely ridiculous, argues Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “Why tariffs work” – In electing Trump last year, American voters have called time on decades of elite indifference to industrial production, says William Clouston in the Spectator.
- “These MAGA influencers helped elect Trump. Tariffs have them questioning their faith” – Some loyal soldiers of the US President’s cavalry may be losing faith as their fortunes take a hit, writes Susie Coen in the Telegraph.
- “Donald Trump has just blown up China’s economy” – Trump has upended global trade, and left Xi Jinping with nowhere else to go, says Gordon Chang in the Telegraph.
- “Chinese launch racist humiliation campaign mocking Trump’s tariffs” – A new AI-generated video, believed to have been created by a Chinese TikToker, has depicted a depressing America under Trump’s tariffs, reports the Mail.
- “New Zealand had a plan to be as rich as Australia. Here’s how it failed” – Thousands of Kiwis are leaving the country amid rising unemployment and a gloomy economic outlook, writes Sarah Newey in the Telegraph.
- “Kyrgyzstan will fine women for wearing full-body niqabs” – Women in Kyrgyzstan will be fined for wearing a full-body niqab under a new plan that is supported by the country’s official Muslim governing body, reports the Mail.
- “Why scientists are resistant to prostate cancer screening” – Excessive treatment of low-risk tumours may do more harm than good, reports the Telegraph.
- “Alarming data reveals sexual orientation at highest risk of self harm” – Alarming new data suggests that bisexual adults are almost three times more likely to suffer self-harm than their heterosexual peers, according to the Mail.
- “Pool body sued by transgender player forced to crowdfund money for defence” – The English Blackball Pool Federation, staffed entirely by volunteers, is crowdfunding its legal defence after being sued by a transgender player it banned from women’s events, reports the Telegraph.
- “The academics incensed by the woke overhaul of Oxford’s 800-year-old graduation ceremony” – A plan to make the Latin wording of Oxford’s 800-year-old graduation ceremony gender-neutral has met stiff resistance from Latin experts, students and university staff, writes Natasha Leake in the Telegraph.
- “Joey Barton made defamatory comments against Eni Aluko” – A judge has ruled that former Premier League footballer Joey Barton was being defamatory when he accused ex-England international Eniola Aluko of being a “race card player” in a bitter online row, reports the Mail.
- “Rachel Zegler breaks cover as Disney braces for $115 million Snow White loss” – Rachel Zegler looked sombre as she was pictured out in New York City this week, following the humiliating box office performance of her latest film, Snow White, according to the Mail.
- “‘It is so obviously political’” – On Times Radio, Sir Trevor Phillips tears shreds out of the Labour Party for their disgusting response to Pakistani rape gangs.
This is superb from Trevor Phillips! He TEARS SHREDS out of the Labour party for their disgusting response to Pakistani rape gangs.
— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) April 9, 2025
'The govt's response to grooming gangs is utterly, utterly shameful'.
'It is SO obviously political'
Spot on!pic.twitter.com/DKHq3DO3UT
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I’ve just read a article on rueters about Italy, the alps and Venice apparently there’s not enough water in the sea causing drought and empty canals in Venice but sea level rise is a disaster at the same time! and theres not enough snowfall in the alps causing drought in Italy, oh and at this time, antarctic ice is at an all time low but not changing! This is all getting bloody stupid!
And climate change is increasing due to continuing global warming despite there having been no increase in the rate of warming since just after 1996 (and the end of El Niño) and a slight net decline.
The temperature increase for the last 100 years is between 0.65C and 1.12C depending where your dart lands.
As I noted the other day it takes a special kind of logic to think that a rise from -57c to -55c will cause the ice to melt…
Since there are only a handful of weather stations on the West (warmer) coast and none in the interior, temperatures are ‘estimated’ thanks to triangulation, algorithms and everyone’s favourite… computer modelling.
By curious coincidence, most global warming is ‘happening’ in Polar regions.
My “Contingency Theory of Climate Change”
Everywhere on the planet is very slightly different. So:
Climate change is the net result of all local, regional and global climate change variables, and CO2 is NOT the planet’s temperature control knob.
CO2 is just one of many climate change variables, including:
1) Earth’s orbital and orientation variations towards the Sun (aka planetary geometry)
2) Changes in ocean circulation. Including ENSO and others
3) Solar energy and irradiance, including clouds, albedo, volcanic and manmade aerosols, plus possible effects of cosmic rays and extra terrestrial dust
4) Greenhouse gas emissions (of which CO2 is one, and water vapour the most abundant)
5) Land use changes (cities growing, logging, crop irrigation, etc.)
6) Unknown causes of variations of a complex, non-linear system
7) Unpredictable natural and manmade catastrophes
8) Climate measurement errors (unintentional errors or deliberate science fraud)
9) Interactions and feedbacks, involving two or more variables.
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So it is a soup of pretty much whatever flavour you like somewhere.
I think you can apply that very sound logic to pretty much any social phenomena. There is enough of everything going on somewhere that you can create any impression you like by taking the subset of events that supports your story and report those.
I have no doubt that is exactly what happens.
Yes, I started years ago with the contingency theory of management on an MBA course – sometime in the last century.
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Anyway.
There has been a generation or more taught or rather indoctrinated that the climate doom is all caused by the trickster devil/god carbon dioxide. This is so patently not the case that I look at adults who spout it as if they were saying they still believe in Father Christmas, or God.
The current cooling in The Antarctic (and other places) whilst there is warming elsewhere at the same time seems to show how versatile the magic carbon dioxide molecule is. So I feel rather generous in crediting it with any role.
Every bit of extreme weather from anywhere in the world gets beamed straight to our living rooms. This might give the impression that everything is getting worse. But actually, that is all it is.——-An impression. Because in reality there is no increase in floods, droughts, storms, wild fires, or any other type of weather related events. So where you have a reason for getting masses of people to believe something and to come onboard with an idea then it is easy to cherry pick a bunch of data or facts the seem to support that agenda or idea. And that is exactly what is happening with climate. So then you need to ask yourself WHY. My brother once said to me “Why would they say there is global warming if there isn’t any”? ——–A good question, and to understand why you need to know something about the politics involved. If you let yourself think it is all just about science, then you are missing most of it. Climate Change is a highly politicised issue, and a moral economic and social one as well. It is not purely about science. Infact the science is very weak and often the facts do not fit the theory, and in any case it mostly emanates from climate models, which to this point have all been totally wrong. —–Real science rejects it’s theory when the facts do not fit the hypothesis. In politics you seek “consensus”, which as someone once pointed out is “the last refuge of scoundrels”.
“It recorded its coldest six-month winter since records began in 2021…”
I think the year is a typo.
Just not clearly written methinks – should read ‘ In 2021 it recorded its coldest six month winter since records began’ or something similar.
Excellent article, just a small chip out of the climate change/net-zero wall but we must keep chipping away. Covid and climate change have seen a reversal in the normal way things work, usually we have technological innovations and scientific findings and then society subsequently adapts and develops to make best use of the technology and the science. With climate change and with covid we seem to have started with a diabolical and sinister narrative and then insisted that science and technology come up with answers and developments to fit the desired narrative.
Increasingly with climate change the evidence is lacking, whether it is high level scientific measurement or just looking out the window and noticing that over my three score years and ten, the climate has not noticeably changed very much and the sea has not risen very much. However the global tyrants and megalomaniacs have now got so much political, power, money and capital tied up in this net-zero scam that is going to be very hard to get them to climb down at all.
Many ordinary people who are busy with work and family life switch on their 6 o’clock news expecting that the TV News channel has done it’s homework and knows something about the issue they are reporting on. Nope. What they do is repeat what officialdom like the IPCC WEF and politicians and bureaucrats PRONOUNCE. ——-But pronouncements are not science. And computer models that do not reflect what the real world is doing are evidence of NOTHING. ——What we are all presented with is reporting on “official science” in support of a political agenda by a bought and paid for media. Most people do not have time to investigate every issue and they rely on NEWS programs to inform them without bias. ——–In that regard mainstream media have failed, and they fail deliberately in support of the political agenda called “Sustainable Development”
Meanwhile the BBC reports that there is a shortage of fruit and vegetables in the UK and Ireland “largely the result of extreme weather in Spain and north Africa, where floods, snow and hail have affected harvests.”
Where’s Global Warming when we need it?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64718823
Ah, but they’ve got you every which way. Whatever the weather, whether hot or cold, dry or wet, extremely sunny or extremely cloudy, its all down to ‘climate change’. Many people seem so brainwashed by, principally, the msm, especially the BBC, they can no longer just accept weather as weather, but as some portent of forthcoming doom. It seems a shame when many people can no longer enjoy a crisp winter’s day or a warm summer’s evening without niggling fear that the end is nigh. Their loss though.
The earth’s climate has been changing naturally for at least the last few hundreds of millions of years.
It would be abnormal for the earth’s climate not to be changing.
There is no evidence that the current climate change is caused in any significant degree by humanity.
Computer models are not evidence.
Grantham, Mayo, van Otterloo &Co. As well you know.
Ask – Who gains by the constant state of ‘crisis’, not just for climate but other areas too?
Who gains?
What do they gain?
Why?
Greta Thumberg RIP
Government is apparently less trusted than ever before. On every issue no-one believes a word they say. On the economy, on immigration, on education, foreign policy etc etc etc. Yet when they speak of the “climate emergency” most people do believe it. Maybe on sites like this they don’t, but if each person who visits this site thinks for a second about all their family and friends, how many of them simply believe most if not all of the “climate crisis” stuff. They think Polar Bears are in serious trouble, they think the planet is warming dangerously. They think weather is getting more extreme by the week. They will mostly believe all of that stuff because they see it on TV news and because they think it is all about “science” and people by and large will tend not to want to question anything that they consider to be “science” because they think they cannot possibly know more than a scientist.———- So if you have ever told them that Polar Bear numbers have increased 5 fold in the last 60 years, or that there has not been much in the way of warming of the planet for about 20 years, despite CO2 increasing all the time. Or that there is no increase in the frequency or intensity of any type of weather event, many of you will have noticed that those family members or friends will suddenly become like a rabbit in the headlights. They will look at you like you are from Mars.Most of the time when people get new information their reaction would be “Oh, is that right. I never knew that”, but on politicised issues where there has been powerful PR (propaganda) they cannot accept any new information. Propaganda works, and government knows it. The bought and paid for media know it as well. Despite almost everything we hear about the climate being a smidgeon of the truth elevated into a planetary emergency with zero evidence to back it up, the people still mostly accept it as ultimate truth and that reveals only one thing. —–The power of propaganda.
I’ve just read an item in the Times (01/07/23) – headline: ‘Antarctic ice melts to “shocking” low.’ Of course it looks authoritative, but I’d be grateful if anyone out there could help me see why it might be bullshit. If I can’t find that evidence, I’ll have to read Chris Morrison’s articles with more circumspection, despite my general feeling that he hits the nail on the head over and over again. Direct contact with me on this would be very welcome; my email is illman.clive@gmail.com. Many thanks. The Times article reads:
Antarctic sea ice has fallen to a “shock ing” record low for the end of June, with the missing mass equivalent to an area about five times the size of Britain. The loss comes as scientists warn that the Greenland melt has been “off the chart” as the area faces a heatwave.
“Despite the South Pole heading into winter, the Met Office said that the extent of Antarctic sea ice was at 11.8 million sq km on June 29, 1.3 million sq km below the previous record low. It is more than 2.5 million sq km below the average for this time of year.
Ed Blockley, of the Met Office Polar Climate Group, described the levels as “extraordinarily” low. The figures come after record sea ice lows in the Antarctic summer earlier in the year and a slow start to growth heading into winter in the southern hemisphere. Ice growth in May was 2.87 million sq km, far below the usual 3.25 million sq km for the month.
Blockley said it was too early to say if records would be broken when Antarctic sea ice reaches its maximum extent, usually in September, but he added: “We are concerned.”
The loss of such huge expanses of sea ice matters for the wildlife of the region and because it speeds up climate change. Ice reflects more of the sun’s energy into space than dark sea water.
One reason why Antarctic sea ice bas vanished this year appears to be that the region is up to 4C warmer than usual in some places.
The records this year come after about seven years of low sea ice extent in Antarctica. Previously the sea ice had been expanding for decades, but that appeared to flip in 2016 losses occurred linked with a weather cycle called the El Nino-Southern Oscillation.
Blockley said such natural weather cycles could be enhanced by global warming. “As we get this climate warming, the extremes are becoming more extreme,” he said. The world ha already warmed by about 1.2C since the Industrial Revolution.
This month science agencies in the United States the world had entered an El Nino phase, typically linked with years that are hotter than average. Blockley said that was likely to exacerbate Antarctic sea ice losses.
The losses in the Antarctic come as Greenland records temperatures 10C above average. Jason Box, a glaciology expert, said the melt rates were “punching off the charts”.