Quaker Political Interference Has Got Out of Control
12 April 2025
News Round-Up
12 April 2025
by Will Jones
Is the EU about to cut off funding to the Green Blob? That's the prospect raised by an article in Politico, says Ben Pile, which reports that EU money is to be banned from being spent on "advocacy and lobbying work".
Following a celebrity boycott, the organisers of the Hay Festival have terminated their sponsorship deal with investment firm Baillie Gifford due to the firm's ties to Israel and fossil fuel companies.
Spiked's Julie Burchill takes a scythe to the crazed environmental schemes of the green movement, from mass cattle culls to their plot against pets.
The deeply destructive energy policies being implemented in Germany originate in a band of groupthinking green activists who over decades have secured an iron grip on the political levers.
The demand for an end to the ban on on-shore wind farms is bizarre. As Matt Ridley points out in the Spectator, they’re not banned and the energy they produce is expensive and makes gas more expensive, not less.
The green lobby successfully persuaded the Government to declare a moratorium on fracking. But in light of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and the weak response of countries dependent on Russian gas, will the Govt reconsider?
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