News Round-Up
6 January 2025
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5 January 2025
German politicians are so worried about the rise of anti-democratic forces they are taking decisive action to ban criticism of Government figures and sending police to search the homes of dissenters.
Labour has slashed its original £28bn green borrowing plan by 80%, blaming Liz Truss (no, really), and unveiled a new tax raid on oil and gas giants to bankroll the Net Zero drive.
If you provide unlimited money, you will get unlimited numbers of people happy to take it. Chris Morrison reveals the latest billionaire-backed operation spoon-feeding Net Zero propaganda into cash-starved local media.
Labour Party political elites in the UK are flocking to support a new green campaigning group, Labour Climate and Environment Forum, to drive forward the Net Zero agenda, and once again it's funded by green billionaires.
As time goes on, more and more of the green agenda resembles an effort by the global upper classes to pull the drawbridge up behind them and leave the peasants on the other side of the moat forever, says Dr David McGrogan.
No longer can you give a loved one a beautifully displayed array of chocolates from Fortnum & Mason, for the eco-misers have decreed that plastic is out and the sweets must henceforth be hidden beneath boring cardboard.
In 2008, insolvent banks persuaded the Government they were too big to be allowed to go under. Are the same institutions now trying the same trick with Net Zero – positioning themselves as 'too green to fail'?
Dr Chris Larkin warns of the dangers of low atmospheric carbon dioxide and proposes a radical global strategy to lift CO2 levels to prevent plant extinction.
Kemi Badenoch has spoken to the Sunday Times about the importance of achieving Net Zero in a sustainable manner that doesn't disproportionately impact the most vulnerable members of society.
In an interview with UnHerd, the political philosopher John Gray suggests that we have transitioned from what he calls "an age of tragedy" to "an age of absurdity" in relation to climate policy.
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