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A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in Brazil. You can't make this stuff up.

Ed Miliband has refused to calculate the cost of Net Zero, but former Professor of Economics Gordon Hughes has done it for him and the sums are eye-watering. "It’s a gas grid plus a bigger green energy one. Not cheap."

The UK's Net Zero agenda is making families poorer by driving a productivity crisis and squeezing living standards, economists have said. You'd have thought this was obvious, but a great many people are still in denial.

Australia is watching our "unmanaged decline" with a mix of dismay and pity, says Simon Heffer in the Telegraph. It seems Britain's decline isn't just obvious at home – it's blindingly clear from 11,000 miles away.

The Imperial War Museum is consigning Lord Ashcroft's collection of 230 Victoria and George Cross medals to gather dust in a vault. A society that does not value collections like these reveals its true nature.

Left-wing activists in Britain are less likely to work with their political opponents and more likely to think that those who think differently have been misled, a study has found. Leftists are intolerant? Who knew.

In the scarcely believable trainwreck that is Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife the NHS is clearly in the wrong: a male doctor has no right to use the women's changing room. So why is the NHS spending taxpayer money fighting on?

There are more Islamic extremists in the UK than in the Middle East, a top Muslim adviser has warned. Amjad Taha says Keir Starmer is too weak to address the problem because he is in thrall to the fundamentalists.

Ed Miliband's Net Zero delusion is fuelling Britain's biggest greenwashing scandal – burning millions of American trees at Drax while pretending it's clean energy.

Firms supplying food to major Australian supermarkets have launched a revolt against Net Zero, urging the Government to dump its renewables targets and focus on ramping up gas and coal production to cut electricity prices.

People say heat pumps don't work in older houses. But Tim Adams has proved them wrong – and all it took was thousands of pounds and two years of tweaking. Now he saves £5 a week. It'll pay for itself by the time he's 107.

Haematologist Dr Sue Pavord was one of the AstraZeneca jab's biggest supporters, but she knew something was wrong when she saw the side-effects up close. Now she says she's just "relieved" it's been withdrawn.