Germany’s Energy Poverty: How Electricity Became a Luxury Good Germany’s aggressive and reckless expansion of wind and solar power has come with a hefty pricetag for consumers, and the costs often fall disproportionately on the poor. Government advisors are calling for a completely new start.       Bob Ward’s paymaster, Jeremy Grantham (investor in Big Oil) doesn’t like climate sceptics: The [Sceptic’s] misinformation machine is brilliant. As a propagandist … Continue reading →

  Heard this report first on the radio ….not a hint of who was being ‘racist’…though the accents gave it away. London letting agents ‘refuse black tenants’ A long, detailed report…and yet that one essential detail is missing from it. This is the closest the ‘mainstream’ BBC gets to admitting who are discriminating on racial grounds: BBC London was initially tipped off certain letting agents were willing to discriminate against … Continue reading →

Time for a new one…..

  The Left are panicking, the election is looming ever nearer and their Leader is looking ever more dire. Miliband makes a decision, is forced to change his mind, and then proclaims that the U-turn conveys an image of strength, the power to make decisions. The Left have lost the argument on climate, immigration, the economy, welfare and to cap it all UKIP are still riding high in the polls. … Continue reading →

  The BBC’s Home Editor, Mark Easton, is very pro immigration, telling us we must all get used to it……maybe that’s why he  and the rest of the BBC seem to have ignored this report: True scale of European immigration An EU study has found 600,000 unemployed migrants are living in Britain – a 42 per cent rise More than 600,000 unemployed European Union migrants are living in Britain at … Continue reading →

  From Littlejohn in the Daily Mail 2009: Following the inquest into the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand bullying scandal, BBC entertainment chiefs have issued new taste and decency guidelines, including a ban on swearing before 10pm. It comes after a week in which Labour minister Ben Bradshaw, himself a former BBC correspondent, accused the corporation of being biased in favour of the Tories. He said that an interview which … Continue reading →

    Evan Davis was on great form today, lambasting those nasty, capitalist Tory voting types for buying Royal Mail shares, falsely claiming Clegg supports the Guardian over Snowden and now a fine example of wilful blindness.   At 08:21 on the Today programme Davis was talking to Vince Cable and claimed that: ‘It’s odd that politicians grumble about high energy prices when at the same time they are adding … Continue reading →

  H/T  Bobo Evan Davis on fine form:(08:10) ‘Well we’ve had a Royal Mail sale but for some it’s a Royal Mail fail as we’re selling off shares in a national asset on the cheap, a way of handing out free money to Conservative voting types who already have enough money to fork out and buy some shares……the market will give us a first indication of whether that account gets … Continue reading →

   Evan Davis pulled a fast one this morning  (08:23) trying to make it look as if Nick Clegg supported the Guardian’s publication of Snowden’s material….when he clearly does not. Davis was interviewing Vince Cable about the Royal Mail sell off when he slipped in a question about the Guardian. Davis asked (abridged) ‘Has the Guardian done the Public a service by its revelations, which it maintains are true, whilst … Continue reading →