A new report from the IEA admits that coal is still on the up while an article in Project Syndicate announces the failure of the energy transition – signs, says Ben Pile, that greens are slowly waking up to reality.
China has cancelled Christmas in Hong Kong this year. Officials have ordered that the usual celebrations be 'toned down'. It's part of a creeping intolerance that leaves churches fearing for the future, says John MacNab.
When minutes of Germany's "COVID-19 Crisis Group" leaked, the existence of a Wuhan scientist working for the German Government, Wei Cai, was oddly concealed. Robert Kogon asks why and provides further details on her career.
China has been caught spying on America using 'backdoors' in Western technology that the U.S. Government mandated telecom companies to put there. It's time to close these self-imposed weaknesses, says Dr. R P.
COP29 ended with the world's 'rich' countries - the U.K. but not India, China or the Gulf states – agreeing to pay $300 billion so 'poor' countries can "fight climate change". It's all nonsense, says Paul Homewood.
Prof David Livermore writes a postcard from Taiwan, a country where children ride motor scooters on the footplate but 90% of food sellers wear face masks. And where a 'good pandemic' has given way to 20% excess deaths.
While the West surrenders its energy security on the altar of Net Zero, China secures 80% of the world's solar market with its coal-fired economy. This is craziness, says Sallust, and Australia is waking up.
Britain will ban new coal mines as part of Ed Miliband’s drive to hit Net Zero carbon emission, while China continues to power its economy – and make our wind turbines and solar panels – mainly with coal.
Will Donald Trump kill Net Zero, asks Ben Pile. Yes. But more precisely Net Zero will kill Net Zero. Because no one wants to become Germany, with its headlong rush into deindustrialisation, least of all China and the USA.
Vauxhall owner Stellantis's sales have plunged by more than a quarter amid an EV slowdown in Europe. It follows Volkswagen proposing huge workforce cuts and the closure of German factories.
