News Round-Up
27 April 2025
by Will Jones
Thanks to 'ethical' investments in green stocks, the MPs' pension scheme is 25% short of its target for the year to 2024, meaning a taxpayer bailout may be imminent. The Daily Sceptic's Chris Morrison is unimpressed.
Net Zero has been blamed for the complete shutdown of Heathrow after an aviation industry expert told Reform MP Richard Tice that Heathrow is moving from diesel back-up generators to biomass and the new system failed.
James Leary went to the inaugural meeting of the new Reform UK local party in Brighton and, in spite of a strained relationship with the party's leaders, he was impressed.
Reform UK has taken aim at the Green Blob as it "puts the renewables industry on notice". Some have criticised its windfall tax proposal, but Ben Pile says it's smart politics as it will already be scaring away investors.
Reform Party leader Richard Tice has called for former Health Secretary Matt Hancock to apologise over his handling of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, calling it "horrendous at every level".
Given that the Southport attacker downloaded an Al-Qaeda training manual, should those who screamed 'disinformation' when people linked the massacre with Islamism apologise? Laurie Wastell in the Daily Sceptic says yes.
Reform MPs have been banned from asking questions about the teenager accused of the Southport massacre in Parliament, Nigel Farage has revealed, amid concerns about the public being kept in the dark.
Reform UK's conference was all about optimism as the party set out its aim of forming a government at the next General Election in 2029. It's ambitious but achievable for a party that's coming of age, says Anthony Webber.
Critics have slammed Keir Starmer for reneging on promises of change by appointing the Government’s former Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance as the new Minister of State for Science.
Nigel Farage has declared he will stand to be a Reform MP as he takes over as Reform leader from Richard Tice. A former Tory Cabinet Minister says it's "bad news for the Conservatives".
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