Time for Starmer to Be Honest About What Net Zero Means: Rationing, Blackouts and Travel Restrictions in the Next Five Years

By Paul Homewood   Definitely worth a read:   Earlier this week the Labour backbencher and Chairman of the U.K. Parliament’s Energy Committee Bill Esterson noted that people will have to adjust their habits to meet Net Zero emission goals for 2030. Such honesty, emerging as it does from the Parliament of Net Zero nodding […]

Time for Starmer to Be Honest About What Net Zero Means: Rationing, Blackouts and Travel Restrictions in the Next Five Years

Marc Andreesen Gives Examples of Fascism

Marc Andreessen is not as well known now as he was at the dawn of the Interwbbby age when he developed the world’s first widely used web browser that had a graphic interface, Mosaic, which was rapidly copied by everybody else. From that success he leveraged it into co-founding Netscape, whose software engineers contributed important Web […]

Marc Andreesen Gives Examples of Fascism

Jay Bhattacharya at the NIH

Trump has announced the appointment, so it is worth thinking through a few matters.  While much of the chatter is about the Great Barrington Declaration, I would note that Bhattacharya has a history of focusing on the costs of obesity.  So perhaps we can expect more research funding for better weight loss drugs, in addition […]

Jay Bhattacharya at the NIH

Sinn Fein’s links to PLO,Hamas,ETA and of course IRA and other terrorist organisations.

Sinn Fein’s links to PLO,Hamas,ETA and of course IRA and other terrorist organisations.

High mileage electric car usage is working out almost twice as expensive as petrol

By Paul Homewood Not a happy chappy!     Recently, a family illness was a force majeure and the Civic was being serviced so the Ford was the only transport. Unfortunately, no amount of planning could avoid bank-holiday travel and the armada of electric vehicles needing to charge. It looked as though Gridserve hadn’t done […]

High mileage electric car usage is working out almost twice as expensive as petrol

Gallup: Public Support for Gun Bans Craters

According to Gallup’s latest polling, support for a handgun ban has fallen to just 20 percent and support for an “assault weapons” ban has cratered to just 52 percent. Gun bans were a constant call from both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris over the last four years. President Biden often combined the […]

Gallup: Public Support for Gun Bans Craters

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The Royal Commission on Covid-19 Report is a Repugnant, Unstructured Mishmash of Disinformation, Dressed up as a Single Source of Truth.

How can Professor Blakely, who is co-author of NZ’s Royal Commission Report into Covid, write a report critiquing our government’s approach to Covid when he was the intellectual architect of that approach? He co-authored the 2020 British Medical Journal article with Professor Michael Baker called, “Elimination could be the optimal response strategy for covid-19”. That…

The Royal Commission on Covid-19 Report is a Repugnant, Unstructured Mishmash of Disinformation, Dressed up as a Single Source of Truth.

EV targets set to cost UK auto makers billions

By Paul Homewood   h/t Hugh Sharman       Weak demand for EVs and mandatory sales quotas will cost Britain’s automotive industry £6bn in 2024, according to new analysis from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Consequently, the UK’s automotive industry is calling for government intervention to safeguard the sector and Britain’s […]

EV targets set to cost UK auto makers billions

Desired Fertility versus the Mueller Effect

Six months ago, I’m not sure that I’d ever heard of demographer Lyman Stone. Now, people in my circles randomly drop his name on a weekly basis. His favorite topic, in case you haven’t heard, is global fertility decline. As a longtime natalist, I share his concerns. One of Stone’s top takeaways: Instead of talking…

Desired Fertility versus the Mueller Effect

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COP 29 diplomacy delivers perfectly vague promises a decade away

Guest essay by By David Wojick In Cop 29’s “Finance agreement” diplomacy is truly the art of agreeing to nothing. There is no agreement of substance here because there is no substance to this agreement. Each side gets its number someday and that is all there is to it. Let’s look at the actual text […]

COP 29 diplomacy delivers perfectly vague promises a decade away

ZEV Mandates Force Closure Of Vauxhall’s Luton Plant

Stellantis have been warning for months that this would happen, saying that they were not prepared to sell petrol/diesel vehicles at a loss, because of ZEV fines.

ZEV Mandates Force Closure Of Vauxhall’s Luton Plant

A defense of the sex binary against Steven Novella’s “multidimensional” definition of sex

At the CSICon meetings in Las Vegas this November, I gave a half-hour talk on the two aspects of evolutionary biology that have been most deeply misrepresented by ideologues: sex and race. “Progressives” maintain that sex is not binary but a spectrum, and also that “race and ethnicity are social constructs, without scientific or biological […]

A defense of the sex binary against Steven Novella’s “multidimensional” definition of sex

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