What is it with Chicoms and killing people’s pets?
“Heartbreak as Hong Kong pet owners give up hamsters for Covid cull”, reports France-24: Time was running out for Pudding. The hamster, a new addition to the Hau family, was to be given up to Hong Kong...
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“The politicians’ challenge is to wrest well-functioning energy and financial markets back from a financial, activist and media class that seems unshaken by the anticonsumption, income-redistribution...
View ArticleThe Guardian finds a few, a very few, Christians it likes
Christians in MP Steve Baker’s seat pray for him to quit role on climate thinktank Protesters gathered in High Wycombe on Friday to implore their MP, Steve Baker, to quit as a trustee of the Global...
View ArticleNet Zero is “in Nigel Farage’s sights”
I have considerable respect for the Guardian‘s John Harris. Though a Remainer himself, he was one of the first left-wing journalists to see that the campaign to leave the European Union had popular...
View ArticlePutin’s useful idiots – a continuing series
During my morning trawls of newsfeeds I came across this from some film industry news portal called Deadline: A long list of celebrities from the film, television, sports and music industries has sent...
View ArticleWhat new depravity is this?
“UK supermarkets accused of ‘bombarding’ shoppers with cheap meat”, whispers the Guardian’s Denis Campbell in shock: Britain’s biggest supermarkets stand accused of “bombarding” shoppers with offers of...
View ArticleWhat a difference a year makes: the green dream dies in Sri Lanka
April 2021: “Sri Lanka will become first country to be free of chemical fertilizer”, the Sri Lankan news website News First reported: COLOMBO (News 1st); President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has stated that...
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HSBC’s internal cancel culture
A few days ago, HSBC (which is listed in London and Hong Kong) suspended Stuart Kirk, head of responsible investing at the lender, because of how he scorned efforts by regulators to exaggerate the...
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“The facile solutions offered by McKibben and other environmentalists fail to reckon with many things, not least how profoundly the world has changed since Russia’s invasion. Europe’s heavy dependency...
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“Top Biden aide prods big tech to crack down on climate change misinformation”, Axios reports. Gina McCarthy, President Biden’s top domestic climate adviser, said tech companies should do more to...
View ArticleThe president offers his condolences, but that’s enough about you
The president of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, offered his condolences over the massacre of worshippers at a church in Owo, Nigeria. News Letter reports, Forty people were killed in the attack at the...
View ArticleAutumn is coming
You may think that mid-June is a little early for me to be saying that, but I do see signs that Britain, and perhaps the world, is not as green as it once was: Ben Spencer and Harry Yorke in the Times:...
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“The developed world’s response to the global energy crisis has put its hypocritical attitude toward fossil fuels on display. Wealthy countries admonish developing ones to use renewable energy. Last...
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My Twitter is full of people angry about the insane cost of living increases while my LinkedIn is full of nerdy middle class engineers in safe, white collar jobs excitedly praising net zero policies...
View ArticleThe law will find you eventually, evildoer (bin crime edition)
I was arrested & thrown in cell by cops for putting rubbish bags next to my bins EIGHT YEARS ago – the Sun. A MUM-of-two claims she was arrested and thrown in a cell by police for putting rubbish...
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What is the fundamental difference between church indulgences and emission allowances? Primarily it is that critics of allowances are not burned at the stake. Presumably because it would cause too many...
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If police were opening fire on protesters in a European nation, we would have heard about it, right? If there was a mass uprising of working people in a European Union country, taking to the streets in...
View ArticleHow’s going green working out for you, Sri Lanka?
Reported a few minutes ago by the Times of India: Breaking News Live: Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees as protesters storm residence The mob breaking into his palace does not necessarily...
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