Double distraction The important – but unmentioned – fact about UK Prime Minister Johnson’s current woes is that they are apolitical.  Johnson’s – and the Tories – collapse in the polls is solely the result of a breech of trust which might just as easily have been the result of …

When the greenwash peels Among the biggest confidence tricks used by the Green New Great Reset crowd was the sale of “renewable electricity” to the virtue signalling middle classes.  The con ought to have been easy enough to debunk.  After all, there is only the one wire which connects your …

The image of Marie Antoinette dressing up and playing shepherdess in the grounds of her Hameau de la Reine folly at Versailles while Paris burned in the distance may owe more to the mythology of the subsequent revolution, but it speaks to an aristocratic elite which had severed all ties …

It’s half past three on a cold Friday afternoon in mid-January.  The temperature is just five degrees centigrade.  The sun is already low on the winter horizon.  There is barely a breath of wind.  Once again, Britain sits beneath cold high-pressure air.  And once again we have had to turn …

OVO error of judgement Energy company OVO has come in for criticism after advising people to cuddle up to their pets to keep warm this winter.  One of the reasons people began to keep animals indoors in the first place was precisely because they could be used in the same …

I am told I should look into filing a copyright claim against the Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, since I wrote a version of it in my 2015 book, The Consciousness of Sheep, and for exactly the same reason: “We’ve all seen this movie before: A giant asteroid is heading …

On New Year’s Day, millions of Britons experienced disgust on hearing the news that former Prime Minister, sociopath, money grubber and warmonger Tony Blair had received a knighthood.  After all, the British honours system had previously only ever rewarded the most upstanding citizens for selfless service to the community.  Warmongers …

The year 2022 is the setting for the dystopian movie Soylent Green – in which an over-populated, climate ravaged population is only sustained by consuming the nutrients from rendered and processed human corpses.  Two years ago, we might have shaken our heads at just how wrong the film’s director Richard …

UK gas prices have fallen back this week – although they are still some 400 percent higher than at the start of 2021.  And the reasons for the fall in price should not breed complacency.  First, the arrival of a south-westerly airflow off the Atlantic has finally begun to spin …

The establishment media are suspiciously silent about the energy crunch facing Europe in general and the UK in particular.  In October, when the wholesale gas price spiked at 400 percent above its January 2021 level, energy prices were headline news.  So too was the sight of energy supply companies falling …