Dear Editor
Amid the all-pervading gloom of recent months, I have been heartened by recent crumbs of comfort, even optimism, in the news. I would like to share them with other readers.
- Kemi Badenoch, in her most recent speech, has seemingly abandoned the futile and stupid goal of Net Zero for the Conservative Party policy. This could provide the first step towards such things as fracking, re-opening of North Sea oil and gas fields and perhaps coal-fired power stations: be honest, the Chinese and Indians seem to have no problem with their continued development.
- Professor Michael Mann of the notorious ‘hockey stick’ graph is facing crippling court damages as a result of spiteful litigation against people who had the temerity to cast doubt on his claims on global warming. Mostly these claims were made on dubious projection and analyses of records, but were eagerly latched on to by the bandwagon of those making a living out of the global warming scam.
- Schools are beginning to think along the same lines as Katharine Birbalsingh and are looking to reinstate some academic and social rigour (banning mobile phones in class for a start). Perhaps academic excellence will be re-established and the present positive discrimination and social engineering currently used in university selection will be quietly dropped.
- The Church of England Synod has begun a process whereby the individual parish can once again become the focus in the life of the Church. This we hope will restore more opportunity for individual opinions and desire for the life of the ordinary parish, and see an end to the growth of Diocese quangos and their outpouring of woke nonsense.
- In the last week there were no reported crossings of the English Channel by putative illegal immigrants. Whether this was due to adverse weather or the fact that the UK is in such decline that migrants find it no longer attractive, no one has said.
- The overseas aid budget has been slashed. Perhaps we can hope that funding may now be targeted to more tangible things as in the past, such irrigation, transport and infrastructure. Gender equality programmes do not help feed people.
After years of being on the opposite side from trendy thinking and political correctness, I may well be proved justified in my apparently reactionary thinking. Perhaps the process of government will become more business-like rather than an exercise in woke virtue-signalling?
James Dent
Brent Eleigh, Suffolk
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