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Britain’s Stupid Climate Policy Needs the Donald Trump Treatment

Britain has now officially ratified the COP21 Paris climate agreement. The good news is that this will make no difference to anyone or anything because the agreement is toothless and non-binding. The bad news – as you can tell from some of the ministerial comments – is that it serves to remind us that Britain’s climate and energy policy is still in thrall to the environmentalist lunacy which wiser heads like Donald Trump are trying to write out of history.

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Brexit: The Remainers Are Making an Ass of the Law; This Cannot End Well

Quite the most nauseating thing about the Remainers’ anti-Brexit campaign so far – worse than the lies, worse than the bullying, worse even than their outrageous refusal to accept the referendum result – is the sanctimonious way they’re now draping themselves in the flag of patriotism, sovereignty, and due process.

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Ex Aussie PM John Howard: The Case For Conservatism

John Howard, former Prime Minister of Australia, has a fair claim to the title “greatest living conservative statesman”. This week, at London’s National Gallery, he was presented by the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE) with the Edmund Burke Award.

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Brexit: Shakespeare Was Dead Right About Lawyers…

“Kill all the lawyers.” This has got to be my favourite line from Shakespeare – especially after the British High Court’s decision on the EU Referendum whereby a trio of left-leaning activist judges were able to overturn the democratic will of 17.4 million people by ruling: “No. That thing you all voted for. You can’t have it because obscure technical detail…”

Founding partner of SCM Private LLP Gina Miller (C) leaves after the High Court decides th

Americans More Scared of Clowns than Climate Change

Americans are more scared of clowns than they are of climate change. According to a poll conducted by Chapman University, 42 per cent of Americans are afraid of clowns, whereas only 32 per cent are afraid of climate change.

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If Only They’d Called Boaty McBoatface ‘Titanic II’…

Whispery-voiced, gorilla-hugging Malthusian Sir David Attenborough was on the BBC this morning explaining why the polar research vessel which has just been named after him – the one that was supposed to be called Boaty McBoatface till some killjoys intervened – will be so vital in the war on climate change.

BIRKENHEAD, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 17: The keel arrives prior to the keel-laying ceremony of th

Al Gore Declares Climate War on Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton’s chances of becoming next US President took a major hit this week as rumours strengthened that Al Gore will be supporting her campaign.

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James Lovelock, Godfather of Green: Climate Change Religion is Bunk

James Lovelock, inventor of Gaia Theory and godfather of the modern environmental movement, has finally renounced the green religion. Climate alarmism, he says, is not “remotely scientific”; one volcano could make more difference to global warming than humans ever could; the

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Coming to a Town Near You: The Great Green Energy Disaster

Have you ever found yourself stuck in a broken down elevator? I have and it’s absolutely bloody terrifying. The claustrophobia; the rising heat; the shortage of air; the gnawing fear that something even worse might happen – a fire, say – before the rescue services have time to reach you…

Ararat, AUSTRALIA: A photo taken 16 November 2006 shows Australia's largest wind farm

Ill Wind: Australia’s Greenest State Blacked Out By Power Cuts

The entire state of South Australia was blacked out by power cuts last night sending 1.67 million householders back to the dark ages. This comes just days after a report called Keeping The Lights On warned that black outs might be a consequence of the state’s radical green energy policies.

A file photo shows Pineview Station owner Mark Lacey repairing one of his broken windmills