Dr Tilak Doshi takes a closer look at ARIA, Britain's secretive £800 million quango that would dim the sun to 'save us' from global warming. Aside from the nutty Net Zero-ism, do governments ever pick winners? he asks.
Local council Net Zero projects have spaffed away nearly £30 million of public money – and that's just the current projects funded by one Government research arm, says Charlotte Gill in the latest dispatch from DOGE UK.
Rachel Reeves is eyeing £6 billion of welfare cuts in the spring Budget. But why cut benefits and winter fuel allowances when you're still funding 'gay porn studies' and 'queer archives', wonders Charlotte Gill.
Why are Brits splurging millions each year funding foreign PhD students to do research in such non-critical areas as "the impact of race, class, gender and coloniality in child-centred learning", asks Charlotte Gill.
