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In Episode 103 of the Sceptic: David Shipley on the police’s sinister attempts to manipulate Henry Nowak’s family, Rob Bates on Labour’s shameful Boriswave U-turn. Plus: the folly of sacrificing Britain’s oil refineries to Net Zero. Full episode👇

The British state still purports to be the government of a cohesive nation. But the truth is that more and more it resembles an imperial regime ruling over competing peoples, say David Betz and Michael Rainsborough.

On the Climate Skeptic podcast this week, Laurie Wastell chats with the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s Ted Newson to discuss the geostrategic blunder of sacrificing Britain’s oil refineries to Net Zero and the lunacy of our Emissions Trading Scheme.

Labour's negotiators have caved in to EU demands that 36 agricultural pesticides be banned in the UK as part of Andy Burnham’s Brexit deal amid warnings that Britain is becoming a Brussels "rule taker".

There's no doubt that the English – however you define them – ought to remain a majority in England, says Prof James Alexander. But the real question is why they seem to have a death-wish and not want it themselves.

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@TikTokSupport Why have you removed a video of my speech in the House of Commons on protecting women’s sport? How does telling the truth and standing up for women violate your community guidelines?

The Net Zero climbdowns to ease the 'cost of living' are coming thick and fast now. Wind and solar subsidies cut, EV quotas reduced, and now airline biofuel targets loosened in an unravelling of the climate agenda.

As 100,000 people fly into Turkey for COP31 to discuss saving the planet, Tilak Doshi points out that the hosts are pursuing coal, oil and gas projects with abandon, and even the UN is giving up.

Today's update on the Daily Sceptic is here. Stephen Andrews reveals the simple observation that blows the CO2 climate narrative out of the water; Joanna Gray warns against taking advice from the mentally fragile; and Russell Brand is found guilty of rape.

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In Episode 103 of the Sceptic: David Shipley on the police's sinister attempt to manipulate Henry Nowak's family, Rob Bates on Labour's Boriswave U-turn. Plus: the folly of sacrificing Britain's oil refineries to Net Zero.

A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the 'climate emergency', public health 'crises' and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.

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Too much of the discussion about what it means to be English leaves Scotland out of the picture, says Richard Lyon. Britain is the country to which, for over 300 years, we have all belonged.

Russell Brand has been convicted of rape and three counts of sexual assault at Southwark Crown Court, and prosecutors are now weighing two further rape charges.

"We hear a lot from the lanyard class about the harm that mis- and disinformation causes, from anti-migration protests to climate denialism. But they take it for granted that it is always right-wing grievances that are fuelled by fake news, never left-wing ones. Now that the unrest in France has spread to the rest of the Continent, fuelled by misleading claims about school cuts and Israeli genocide, I think we can confidently say that left-wing mis- and disinformation is more dangerous." From my latest @Spectator column.

People will think this is AI-generated, but it’s real. Admittedly, 11 years old. But still.

As 100,000 people fly into Turkey for COP31 to discuss saving the planet, Tilak Doshi points out in the Climate Skeptic that the hosts are pursuing coal, oil and gas projects with abandon, and even the UN is giving up.

Labour MPs have accused Andy Burnham of hypocrisy over his ban on drilling for new oil and gas in the UK, saying that importing oil and gas while banning Britain's own drilling is an absurd "act of self-harm".