A rebellion that the establishment loves
Why our usually illiberal establishment has been so chilled out about XR’s week of vandalism. Extinction Rebellion (XR) protesters in Cambridge have launched a week-long campaign of obstruction and petty vandalism. It began with the protesters issuing demands to...
There’s nothing democratic about this climate assembly
This is a cynical attempt to lend a democratic gloss to eco-austerity. The first two meetings of Climate Assembly UK, dubbed a ‘citizens’ assembly’ on climate change, have taken place in Birmingham over the course of a couple of weekends in January and February. Read...
Climate laws and the chasm between politicians and public
CLIMATE change is presented to us as a technical problem: science has detected the concern and has issued an injunction that society must be reorganised around the issue. Many sceptics have taken the proposition at face value and have challenged the cascade of...
2019: the year of peak green bullsh*t
Greta, Prince Harry and Extinction Rebellion took the eco-cult to new heights of madness. 2019 was the most extraordinary year of green bullshit yet. Despite the planet being a wealthier, healthier and safer place than it was when fears of global warming first...
Where was the debate about the climate?
Channel 4’s leaders’ debate on climate change was a pointless and pathetic exercise. ‘It is the biggest issue on the planet’, said Krishnan Guru-Murthy as he introduced the Channel 4 News Climate Debate. Cue a montage of floods, storms, fires and a burned Koala...
Green grandstanding is out of control
The parties’ ever more outlandish climate plans will eviscerate our living standards. Brexit aside, this General Election campaign will be remembered for parties’ promises to spend more than their rivals. From the NHS to ‘free’ broadband for all, a bidding war has...
Buried beneath Brexit: Boris’s bonkers boiler ban
NEWS emerged this weekend that the Conservative Party Conference will hear the leadership’s proposals to achieve Theresa May’s ‘legacy’ Net Zero 2050 target. According to reports, amongst the first steps on this path will be the outlawing of gas connections to any...
Spare us Prince Harry’s royal hypocrisy
The green prince sees no contradiction in being a jetsetting environmentalist. Oh, how easily Prince Harry leaps from the private jets and super-yachts, loaned to him by his celebrity pals, to the eco-lectern. Read more at Spiked...
Emmanuel Macron’s fake news about the rainforest
His Amazon tweet was nonsense. Why didn’t the media call him out on it? ‘Our house is burning. Literally’, tweeted French president Emmanuel Macron last week. ‘The Amazon rainforest – the lungs which produces [sic] 20% of our planet’s oxygen – is on fire’, he added,...
My beef with Goldsmiths’ burger ban
Universities are turning from centres of free thought into factories of conformism. There has been a lot of climate news this silly season. Amid the stories of Greta in a boat, Greta in a suit and, soon, Greta walking on water, this week we learned that Goldsmiths,...