News Round-Up
27 April 2025
by Will Jones
A Christian charity volunteer has pocketed £13,000 and received an apology from the police after arguing that her arrest for silently praying outside an abortion clinic was a breach of her human rights.
Last week, wind and solar contributed almost nada to Britain's electricity needs and without gas-and coal-powered turbines coming to our aid 1,000s of people would have died. Time to rethink Net Zero, says Chris Morrison.
Was lockdown worth it? That's the key question the Covid Inquiry should be asking, says Lord Frost. But it's increasingly clear that it has predetermined the answer and is just going through the motions.
Lord Frost considers how Labour's paternalistic policies resonate with a nation oscillating between a 'nanny state' and the call for individual responsibility.
Given how effective the pink-haired eco-protestors have been at promoting their hysterical, environmentalist alarmism, is it time to set up a militant, anti-Net Nero protest group? We could call it 'Just Stop Snake Oil'.
Kier Starmer imagines that blocking all new North Sea oil and gas developments will create 250,000 new jobs! The last person to leave Starmer’s Britain will have no need to turn out the lights – they will already be off.
In the annual Global Warming Policy Foundation lecture, Lord Frost warns that the Government's goal of achieving Net Zero by 2050 will involve vast waste, inefficiency, cronyism and economic decline.
In a major victory for free speech, the Online Safety Bill has been put on hold until the Autumn and may well never see the light of day again. This is, by some distance, the best news of the year.
A group of senior Conservative figures, including Lord Frost, have written to Nadine Dorries urging her to ditch the 'legal but harmful' clause from the Online Safety Bill.
Lord Frost is one of three ex-Cabinet ministers who've warned of the threat the Online Safety Bill poses to free speech. "A Conservative Government should not be putting this... in to law," he says.
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