Hull City Council has approved the next phase of its district heating network, a low-carbon vision involving miles of pipes, years of roadworks, and a touching faith in the idea that everything will somehow work out in the end. Phase 1B has been waved through before Phase 1A is even up and running, which suggests […]
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After a week of turmoil with opportunistic right-wing politicians jumping around in pursuit of a political billet which suits their ambitions better, perhaps the media can refocus on the right target i.e. the incumbent government. While the media dredges up past communications which prove how duplicitous politicians can be, the spotlight is diverted from Starmer:
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Being born must be the most shocking thing that ever happens to you. All your experience up to that point is in a nice, temperature-controlled environment. It suddenly gets colder, possibly much colder. You are used to it being dark. It suddenly gets much brighter. The noises you have heard to date are those of
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A leading proponent of face masks as a means of countering the spread of respiratory infections appears to have changed her mind. Professor Trish Greenhalgh, University of Oxford – described as the “high priestess” of the face mask movement, who even appeared on her X feed wearing two face masks during the COVID-19 years –
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It’s been a while since I have gazed out at the world from the man cave, mid-December in fact. It has not stopped me writing, but a couple of ‘Silly Season’ columns were the best I could do. Now that we have cut steps across the frozen waste that is our garden to the man
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Last week, the Princess of Wales released the latest of her quarterly videos. Lots of slightly soft-focus visuals of HRH walking through the countryside like a House of Bruar model while a slow, serious, pause-filled voiceover gave us her thoughts about winter. Taken with her recent refusal to give details about her clothes, the videos
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One’s nose was to the grindstone last week catching up on such a terrific backlog of work that, by the end of the week, the season of goodwill had faded into the mists of time. Two days were spent in Hatfield. Most of the time was spent driving there. But I spent a day with
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Few cases encapsulate the rot at the heart of Britain quite like that of Shamima Begum. On the surface, she should have been a textbook illustration of the virtues of multiculturalism: a second-generation Bangladeshi, raised in the Muslim enclave of Tower Hamlets in East London. In reality, she embodies everything Britain has gotten wrong since
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You already know many of the Emperor Caligula’s greatest hits. There was making his horse Consul (he didn’t, but it was thought he might). There was the incest with his sisters (no real evidence for this and it was far from unknown in the ancient world – Cleopatra’s parents were almost certainly closely related, possibly
Britain has been experiencing a cost-of-living crisis since Brexit in 2020. Today, the situation is no different, with persistent inflation, low growth, and debt now revealing signs of economic stagnation. The UK’s growth in GDP per capita (often used as a proxy indicator of a country’s standard of living) continues to lag behind that of
Britons Are Becoming Poorer—So, Just Accept It? Read More »
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