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.
In spite of claims by America and its allies that Russia is “increasingly isolated”, Putin hosted the largest foreign policy meeting in Russia ever last week, with delegations from 32 nations attending the BRICS summit.
The Armed Forces are not ready to fight a war, the Defence Secretary has claimed, while a military source told the Telegraph, "We can fight" but we "might be left dangerously obsolete".
China is fooling David Lammy when it tells him we have a "shared interest" in a "global green energy transition". In the decade to 2022, China's emissions increased by 17%, while ours fell by 35%. Shared interest?
Robert Kogon uncovers a hidden set of January 2020 minutes that underlines the strong links between Germany's public healthy authority and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Keir Starmer has refused to say whether he would sign away other British overseas territories such as Gibraltar and the Falklands after handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, an ally of China.
