Utopia, you are standing in it!

I was recently in a discussion about the title of “King Consort” and how rare of a position it is. Generally, I have considered King Felipe II of Spain as the only King Consort of England and Ireland but upon further reflection I have begun to rethink his position as King of England.

If Felipe II wasn’t a King Consort then what type of King was he? What was his position?

First let’s define what a King Consort is. We know a Queen Consort is the wife of a reigning King, a King Regnant if you will. Regnant is an adjective meaning to reign or to rule. A Consort is the spouse of a reigning monarch.

Therefore, a King Consort, is a rarely used title to describe the husband of a Queen Regnant.

Whether a Queen Consort or a King Consort the role implies that the holder of such position…

It is so much simpler to interpret the UK economy if you attribute every single problem to Brexit. But it is also wrong.

Last week, for example, the EU statistics agency Eurostat released preliminary data suggesting that consumer price inflation in the euro area fell from 8.5pc in February to ‘just’ 6.9pc in March, including a drop from 9.3pc to 7.8pc in Germany. The pain in Spain may already be over, with inflation there expected to be a balmy 3.1pc.

In contrast, the UK consumer price (CPI) measure rose to 10.4pc in February. The March data (out on 19 April) will probably still be around 10pc. Cue the predictable cries of ‘it was Brexit wot done it!’, from all the usual suspects.

However, even the briefest of glances below the hood tells a very different story. The gap between inflation in the UK and in the rest of Europe can…

By Paul Homewood

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/greenland-temperatures-2021/

Every year I publish the latest Greenland temperature data from the DMI. Unfortunately they have not got round to updating it for 2021.

The data is of course extremely damning for the alarmist narrative about rising temperatures in the Arctic and Greenland meltdowns, as it shows that Greenland was just as warm in the 1930s to 50s as it has been in the last two decades, with the exception of that one warm year in 2010.

Maybe that is the reason for the withholding of the data for the last two years.

However we can still access the up to date numbers from GISS:

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data_v4_globe/

GISS publish both the unadjusted (ie actual) temperatures as well as their homogenised ones, which are used in their global temperature dataset.

The actual data follows the same trend as DMI, with temperatures as high around the 1930s and 40s. (The…

Germany’s self-inflicted renewable energy disaster is on display for all to see. It’s a calamity that the MSM refuses to acknowledge. An inconvenient truth, no doubt.

Sure, the Russians pulled the plug on gas supplies to Germany, but mother nature does the same with sunshine and breezes, every day. Sunset, cloud cover and calm weather, do it every time.

The Germans call it ‘dunkelflaute’ – a period of gloomy, windless weather. Which roughly translates as a complete collapse in the output of their more than 30,000 wind turbines and millions of solar panels.

Quietly, logic and common sense are returning to retake control of Germany’s idiotic energy policy, with coal-fired power front and centre.

As Pierre Gosselin outlines below, Germans appear less keen on pointless virtue signalling and more in tune with the need to have power 24 x 7, whatever the weather.

Wall Street Journal Makes Fun Of German…

Politicians routinely crabwalk away from policy disasters. So it is in Britain where ever-reliable nuclear power has just been declared ‘green’ and essential to Britain’s energy future.

Oversold and overhyped, in Europe, wind power now barely rates a mention amongst anyone serious about serious energy policy. Like that awkward, always-drunk uncle that everyone wants to avoid and forget.

What a difference ever-rocketing power prices and an increasingly chaotic and insufficient weather-driven supply makes to policies driven by ideology rather than engineering.

No longer able to avoid the unavoidable, Britain’s government is backing nuclear power like their entire economic future depends upon it. Which, incidentally, it very much does.

World Nuclear News has the news.

UK to class nuclear as environmentally sustainable
World Nuclear News
Press Release
15 March 2023

The UK’s Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced that nuclear will “subject to consultation, be classed as environmentally sustainable in our green…

• Dr Bryce Edwards writes – 

It’s truly astonishing the way that the Government has been able to suppress evidence of business donors gaining special access to Cabinet information.

Now that Stuart Nash has been fired from Cabinet for leaking sensitive information to individuals who funded his election campaign, the focus has shifted to why this information was kept from the public back in 2021. It turns out that the Prime Minister’s Office knew Nash had given privileged information to donors. Furthermore, the PM’s Office played a central role in preventing that information from being released to a journalist who specifically asked for it, and should have received it, under the provision of the Official Information Act.

The Nash scandal is now far wider than the ex-minister, and there are fundamental questions about the role of the Government in allegedly covering up the misuse of public office for vested interests. Labour…

Is the government imploding?

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has had to sack one of his more effective (and likeable) ministers, while another (from the Green Party) has insulted many of the adult population.

For  his  part, Hipkins had appeared to  be shaping  up well since he took over the top job. Furthermore, he has been succeeding in turning  around Labour’s plunging poll ratings.

But now with the Nash disaster and the Davidson insult, alongside the nationwide strikes of teachers, plus the cost-of-living crisis, it may take something of a political miracle to recover.

Stuart Nash was already on a final warning, when Stuffrevealed he had emailed business figures, including donors, detailing private Cabinet discussions. Hipkins said the most recent scandal was “inexcusable” and this incident alone would have seen Nash sacked.

He described the call as “black and white”, but he was still “gutted” to see Nash go.

Logic and reason don’t register with the wind and sun cult, nor does empathy or compassion. Happy to wreck your community by carpeting it with an endless sea of solar panels and spearing hundreds of bird-munching monsters into your backyard, it’s all care and no responsibility for these characters.

Overlooking the real environmental destruction caused by wind and solar is essential when you’re on a grand neo-Marxist economic reset. Practiced cognitive dissonance, or ‘double-think’ as Orwell called it.

John Robson singles out Greta Thunberg for a little attention on that score, thanks to her recent arrest for protesting against the wind turbines that are destroying the lives and livelihoods of the nomadic Sami reindeer herders of the frozen Arctic north.

Nooooo, not Rudolph
Climate Discussion Nexus
John Robson
8 March 2023

It would be easy to make fun of Greta Thunberg for joining a protest against a wind farm that…

Stolen shamelessly from a famous American article published in 1996.

The author, John Tierney, later said that he got more hate mail for that piece than anything else he or anybody ever wrote for the New York Times Magazine.

The article can be found here.

The article starts off with a scene of school kids gathering rubbish and shows the problem right from the start:

Miss Aponte finished emptying the last bag. “We’ve been learning about the need to reduce, reuse and recycle,” she said, and pointed at the pile.
”How does all this make you feel?”
”Baaaad,” the students moaned.
The pile of garbage included the equipment used by the children in the litter hunt: a dozen plastic bags and two dozen pairs of plastic gloves. The cost of this recycling equipment obviously exceeded the value of the recyclable items recovered. The equipment also seemed to be a…

The poll was conducted by Senate Opportunity Fund, a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization, to test public opinion regarding congressional bill H.R.1, called The Lower Energy Costs Act.  A national sample of 800 likely voters were contacted by phone during March 21 to 23, 2023, with questions regarding a number of public policy issues.  Responses are shown by self-identified political leanings, and by participants located in battleground states. Note that the final question showed about 80% approval by all cohorts.