British bill payers have already forked out a staggering £650 million this year just to pay wind farms not to produce electricity when it’s too windy, according to campaign website Wasted Wind. The National Grid can’t cope, so turbines are told to switch off, leaving the public to pick up the tab. That number is only rising…
In 2024, the cost to switch off turbines totalled £1 billion in so-called “constraint payments”. At this rate, 2025 will blow past that – landing at a projected £1.26 billion. That’s a 26% increase…
According to Renewable Energy Foundation, bill payers have also coughed up £102,500 to solar panel farms to switch off this year when there’s been too much sun. Here comes the sun, and I say: “It’s more bills”…
The usual cast of hard left nutjobs gathered in East London this weekend for the annual fully communist festival ‘Marxism 2025’. Bring your own deodorant…
As well as Corbyn, the conference was attended by Green Party Deputy Leader Zack Polanksi and key figures in Sultana’s troubled new movement, such as Andrew Feinstein and Salma Yaqoob. Sultana herself stayed away, after an embarrassing week…
There were plenty of middle class journalists and authors on the platform too, such as Gary Younge and Yanis Varoufakis. Predictable…
Video posted on social media from the unhinged opening rally shows people in the crowd repeating the chant of Glastonbury’s Bob Vylan: “death to the IDF.” The rapid collapse of Starmer’s authority is emboldening the hard left in Britain…
It was a big weekend on planet Owen after his car-crash interview with Piers Morgan. His fast rate of delivery and knocking over a glass of water on set raised eyebrows…
Turns out Owen has now come clean and tweeted that his appearance may have been affected by prescription drugs for ADHD. Fair enough…
And given @jk_rowling decided to amplify false claims I take cocaine before going on TV:
I wasn’t on cocaine, no. I was on amphetamines. Specifically Elvanse, 40mg, courtesy of the NHS.
It helps ADHD, but it’s not a miracle drug so sadly doesn’t cure fast talking or clumsiness. pic.twitter.com/V35t3qRoRy
— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) July 6, 2025
The extent to which Piers won the argument after a total fail from Owen isn’t so easily explained. Enjoy it again in full…
A bizarre but perhaps unsurprising intervention from former Met police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu who tells The Guardian on the twentieth anniversary of the attacks:
“A driver of the 7/7 attacks was foreign policy and Iraq. That does not excuse in any way what they did. That foreign policy decision has radicalised and made extremists of people who might not have been radicalised or extreme. And if they were on the pathway, it’s pretty much guaranteed… All terrorists will have a freedom fighter story.”
Of course the real driver of the 7/7 attacks was the terrorists themselves. Blaming Western foreign policy is the very same excuse used by terrorists themselves for their murderous actions…
That’s the same Neil Basu who called British policing institutionally racist, alleged Suella Braverman used “horrific” rhetoric about migrants, and said Farage was giving the EDL “succour.” No wonder British policing is in such a dire state after years of this ‘leadership’…
Hiring confidence has plunged to its lowest level in 13 years, according to accountancy and business firm BDO’s latest Employment Index, which slid again in June, dropping to 94.22. The report finds firms are now “holding back recruitment” as Downing Street limbers up for yet more tax rises after Starmer’s U-turns on winter fuel and welfare. This follows gloomy payrolled employment data, which showed a staggering 109,000 jobs were lost in May alone…
Meanwhile the Confederation of British Industry reports over half (52%) of employers in financial services expect their workforces to shrink by September, citing “heightened economic uncertainty”. CBI Chief Economist Alpesh Paleja warned:
“Conditions deteriorated in the financial services sector over the second quarter, with business volumes falling at their fastest pace since late 2023 and sentiment dropping sharply.”
Numbers will likely only get worse after Autumn…
An education minister has refused to guarantee that children with special needs will continue to receive their current guaranteed education provisions under current plans to reform the SEND system. Labour MPs are feeling rebellious…
After Phillipson failed to make guarantees yesterday to not scrap education, health and care plans (EHCPs), which force authorities to provide a level of service for children with special needs, early years minister Stephen Morgan was needled on Times Radio on proposals to alter them. Costs of £11 billion per year currently…
Morgan gave no guarantee despite being pressed:
“Well of course we want to make sure that every child gets the support that they need. That’s why we’re doing the wider reform and we’re publishing the white paper later this year… We’re looking at the system in the round. I’m not going to get into the specifics today in terms of what it might mean going forward but we’ve got to be really honest with parents, they will also recognise this system is not working.“
The government plans to cut costs from the EHCP system and redirect the cash to schools. The white paper on proposals is scheduled for October. Charities are already sounding the alarm and with them come the backbenchers…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”