Whenever you read breathless media headlines shrieking, “record temperatures!”, you should be deeply sceptical. Firstly, because “on record” almost always means “within the last century”; often as recently as the last fifty years. Secondly, because temperature records are invariably apples’n’oranges comparisons: from old-fashioned mercury thermometers to satellite laser-based
Elizabeth Pearson Programme Lead MSc Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Studies, Royal Holloway University of London Shamima Begum is not coming home. The Islamic State (IS) poster girl lost her latest appeal against the British government’s 2019 decision to strip her of her citizenship on grounds of national security. The ruling
Jas Kalra Associate Professor of Operations & Project Management Manchester Metropolitan University British people are known around the world for their love of tea. This is borne out by the statistics: a staggering 50 billion cups of tea are consumed on average in the UK every year. Most of this
February 20th, 2024 As a change from the gloom, despair conflict and depression reported from around the world, I felt that it was time to put my citizen reporter’s hat on (complete with visible press ticket protruding from the hatband) and give you a picture of town (or village
Jonathan Tonge Professor of Politics University of Liverpool Writing about Conservative byelection calamities has become something of a standard Friday practice for me. But the party’s defeat in Wellingborough in Northamptonshire was particularly brutal. The Tory vote share was a mere 25% and the Conservative to Labour swing of
Kathleen Marquardt Kathleen Marquardt is the founder and chairman of Putting People First, a non-profit organization combatting the animal rights movement. Her book, AnimalScam: the Beastly Abuse of Human Rights, was published by Regnery in 1993 and has been used in universities as a textbook. cfact.org London Mayor Sadiq
February 12th, 2024 I feel that it is interesting to start with a quote from Enoch Powell (yes THAT Enoch Powell). We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of
Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org Can it be true that California, in pursuit of reduced emissions from internal combustion engine vehicles, has mandated that heavier EV cars
The peasants are revolting! From Hungary to Argentina, the Netherlands to Italy, the hoi polloi are arking up against their self-appointed meritocratic overlords. Urban workers and rural farmers alike are realising that they’re being shafted by the elites, and making common cause. And the elite don’t like it.
February 5th, 2024 I read with interest Lushington’s piece on the UK Bomber Command in the Second World War. My father served with Bomber Command, being a rear gunner with 76 Squadron out of Linton-on-Ouse airfield near York. He related to me that most of his fellow servicemen hated
January 30th, 2024 Having had a welcome break, if not an exactly relaxing time over the holidays, I started this letter to bring my comments on UK events up to speed. Unfortunately, there is far too much to comment on, as Rishi Sunak continues to display even greater levels of
Is the Biden administration preparing to pull the worst betrayal of an ally by a Western nation since Czechoslovakia was dismembered and handed to the Hitler regime? In 1938, Chamberlain and Deladier cravenly sold out the Czechs in a futile attempt to mollify Hitler’s aggressive avarice. In 2024, Joe
One of the most disastrous conceits of modern times is the assumption that computers are somehow infallible. This foolish assumption is usually made by people who, like monkeys banging a gun on a nut to crack it, don’t really understand the tools they are using. Just as the gun
Kathleen Marquardt cfact.org Over 200 million in the UK will be unable to pay their energy bills this winter, and the government is suggesting they purchase green housing or renovate their homes to be climate change friendly. In an article at CURRENT News, the British independent charity organization Citizens
As George Orwell wrote in 1943, in response to “progressive” hand-wringing over the bombing of German cities, “all talk of ‘limiting’ or ‘humanizing’ war is sheer humbug”. The opponents of the bombing, Orwell noted, still wanted the war to be won — they were not so foolish, at least, as to
If there was one left-wing politician I’ve always had a lot of respect for it was Roy Jenkins. He was a UK Labour MP, albeit on the right wing of the party, a cabinet minister in the Wilson Governments; Home Secretary, and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was then
