(0705) Nondescript out there just now, sun wants to come through. (0747)
10. Moo corner
9. Vile pollies
8. The value of memes
7. This comes from close to the top on X
6. An interesting discussion on Britain and each home country
Naturally I’m biased now but Rupert seems to be shaping up … hope he does not neglect his own constituency with all the other calls on his time and presence.
(0557) Phew! Dear reader, I was right out of it yesterday … over-exertion, physically, after recent issue with heart, circulation … simply could not focus eyes, easy to run entertaining clips though. Now for some reason, I’m okish but still watching it, treading carefully. Let’s see what Sunday brings. Hoping you’re ok. (0649)
5. A meeting of two traditions in British politics
… I’d argue that the MRLP is an honoured, timeworn trad which must go on.
4. Steve at 1411
3. Certainly spreading
2. DAD at 1411
a) The images of riots in the United Kingdom are not a passing nuisance. They are a warning in flames. For decades, detached political elites have imposed a radical demographic and cultural transformation across Europe under the banner of progressivism. This has targeted the very core of our civilisation….
b) For years, European Union federalists have hoped that one particular project would take flight: A Franco-German jet fighter. The ambitious project, planned between two major companies – Airbus, on Germany’s (and Spain’s) side, and Dassault Aviation on France’s….
c) Rassemblement National (RN) councillor Kevin Nader caused a stir in France by publicly reciting the Hail Mary prayer while holding a crucifix, after the communist mayor rejected …. (JH: Takes a bit of getting the head around, that one.)
d) Britain should stop building wind farms because the country has too much electricity, the UK boss of EDF Energy has said.
Mr Rossi’s call for a pause on wind farms comes as Mr Miliband, the Energy Secretary, drives a substantial expansion of renewable energy. Earlier this year, he signed off on plans to build the biggest onshore wind farm in the UK in a decade.
1. Climate
This was in this morning’s Lord Toby bulletin:
“Many people with inadequate scientific knowledge are convinced that Planet Earth is in mortal danger from global warming due to humans. If Planet Earth were really in great danger from humans, any means to protect it would be justified. Some extremists propose reducing Earth’s eight billion population of people to no more than one billion. How this is to be done has always been a bit vague. Genghis Khan made a good start by slaughtering some 40 million people in the 13th century. In our day, Prince Philip, father of King Charles III of the United Kingdom, opined that: “If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
The climate alarmism of our time is a malignant alliance of ignorant fanaticism, like that mentioned above, and opportunism: the lust for power, fame and wealth. Like all fanatical movements, climate alarmism is doing great collateral damage, most notably to the reputation of my own profession of science. Generous research grants from governments and private foundations have created a new discipline of ‘climate science’. Traditional, rigorous disciplines like atmospheric physics, atmospheric chemistry, meteorology or palaeontology were quick to cash in by renaming themselves with some variant of ‘Centre for Saving the Planet’. They were generously rewarded with research grants, new laboratories, professorships, elections to learned societies, prizes and other tokens of gratitude.
This largess came with strings. If your research did not show that the planet needed to be saved, you would be expelled from the elect.”