The writer is in Australia. ONCE upon a time in the West, anxious Greenies tied themselves to trees in the path of bulldozers to prevent the building of a new road, or dam, or anything that might improve the lot of human residents at the expense of nature. By the 1970s, Tasmania’s industrial and residential […]
UKRAINE is entering the third year of its unequal war with Russia in a worse plight than when the fighting began. It has begun inauspiciously with the surrender of the besieged eastern city of Avdiivka by its outnumbered defenders. The Russians seem impregnably dug in on a fifth of Ukrainian territory and the military, badly […]
FARMING in England is facing a crisis as thousands of farmers have accepted government payments of up to £100,000 to leave their land. The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) say that their ‘Lump Sum Exit Scheme’, launched in 2022 by Boris Johnson, aims to ‘support farmers in England who wish to leave […]
BBC1’s Silent Witness has become embroiled in a ‘one-way racism’ row after a recent episode featured a not-very-inclusive epithet employed by a visibly non-white character against a white one. This is the crime drama series which focuses on solving murders with the help of the ‘silent witness’ – the victim. New arrival Roy Lock, who is black, […]
THE Telegraph reports that despite the severe housing shortage the Home Office is offering landlords five-year guaranteed full-rent deals for properties in which to house asylum seekers. It has amassed a stock of 16,000 properties in the hope of cutting the £8million-a-day cost of accommodating migrants in hotels. The paper says these properties, sourced from the private rental and social housing markets, are being used […]
THE fear that unchecked population growth will lead to increased competition for resources, causing environmental degradation and economic instability has a long history. Its contemporary incarnation came with biologist Paul Ehrlich and his 1968 book The Population Bomb (co-authored by his wife, Anne), which warned of mass starvation, environmental destruction and other catastrophes resulting from excessive population […]
LAST WEEK the National Assembly (lower house) of the French Parliament passed a Bill that criminalises certain forms of dissuasion from orthodox or ‘established’ medical treatments, including prophylactic or preventive treatments, which could, potentially, include vaccines. The measure has attracted national controversy in France and been condemned as a ‘disproportionate’ attack on freedom of expression by the […]
THE latest woke assault on our armed forces comes from the most unlikely of places – the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the world’s oldest and the UK’s leading defence and security think tank. It has just published a report advocating more diversity training for the Armed forces, according to the Telegraph. Thinking that the headline might be […]
READERS of a certain age will no doubt fondly remember a confectionery staple of their schooldays. PEZ was founded in Austria by Edward Haas in 1927 and went on to become a global phenomenon. The name is an abbreviation of PfeffErminZ (German for peppermint), and originally the product was a round peppermint lozenge called PEZ drops. Over […]
LAST month Gillian Dymond wrote an open letter to Dame Norma Redfearn, Mayor of North Tyneside, about North Tyneside Council’s signing up to UK100, ‘a network of local leaders who have pledged to lead a rapid transition to Net Zero with Clean Air in their communities ahead of the government’s legal target’. She reported here on Dame Norma’s reply, and returned to […]
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