In the wake of the Supreme Court's landmark trans ruling, is a Gender Recognition Certificate worth anything at all? Not really, says Mark Ellse – but our muddled politicians won't be in a rush to admit they messed up.
Day-to-day weather, with all its extremes, is "just weather", says the IPCC. With their backing, we can now shrug off the BBC's melodramatic climate reports and misinformation, writes Mark Ellse.
As he left Downing Street, Rishi Sunak apologised for the Conservatives' record in Government. Mark Ellse imagines what he might have said had he apologised for lockdowns and Net Zero.
The Government's consultation on "non-statutory guidance" for schools on gender identity shows how weak it is, says Mark Ellse. The problem is it failed to amend the Equality Act, which protects "gender reassignment".
Rishi Sunak's recent announcement of new gas power generators to ensure reliable energy supply on the path to Net Zero is his King Canute moment, says Mark Ellse.
Too many students regret life-long debts as a consequence of often worthless degrees at institutions that pay their senior managers up to £700,000 a year. But there is a better way, says Mark Ellse.
Once you include the extraordinary cost of the half-ton battery, electric vehicles cost far more per mile to run than petrol vehicles, says Mark Ellse.
There is an aspect of higher education that one never hears spoken – the cost of frittering away the productive working time of the young, an invisible drain on our society far larger than the direct costs of education.
Of course 5G isn't safe, says Mark Ellse. But nothing is. The question is how high the risks are. Which for radio-frequency radiation at a distance is very likely to be small.
"If you are an employer, you call it firm management, if you are the union, you call it bullying," advised the ACAS trainer. Pretty much sums up the Dominic Raab debacle.
Denmark has ceased Covid vaccination for most under-50s, but the UK has not, meaning it is offering vaccines to 32m additional, low-risk people at a potential cost of £1bn. This is an utter waste of scarce public funds.
The Government-funded Energy Saving Trust has produced a report on a field trial of heat pumps. Here's a translation of the key findings from the executive summary into plain English.
