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Is Climate Change Supercharging the Jet Stream – and Ruining Our Chances of Proper Winters?
What We Need for a Classic Winter One of the quirks of UK winter is the “blocking high”. that stubborn ridge of high pressure which parks itself over Greenland or Scandinavia and funnels icy Arctic air towards us. When one of these blocks settles in, we get the sort of winter weather people still get misty-eyed about: crisp days, deep frosts, frozen ponds, ...
How Much Do You Cost in State Funding?
One thing that I find odd, is that nearly all my working life, I have been told in the media that tax is evil, spawned from the devil of socialism. The truth is, most people cost the state far more than they think and would die in poverty if state health and education was privatised and taxation was abandoned. It would be like living with Mad Max Beyond the ...
How Farage Exploits the Ever-Expanding Universe of the Blissfully Misinformed
Much has been said in recent days about Nigel Farage’s colourful (read: racist) past, but honestly, I’m not convinced it matters much to his impulsive voter base. If anything, it probably just adds to the charm for some of them. A limited-edition Farage, now available with extra xenophobia. The Trouble With Outsmarting a Man With No Empathy It’s painful ...
Scotland’s Glorious Madness: A Night That Will Live Forever
Oh, what a night! Watching Scotland qualify for the World Cup was nothing short of intoxicating. A full-throttle cocktail of passion, drama, and glorious chaos. From the very first note of a thunderous Flower of Scotland (an anthem to match any) you could feel the electricity in the air. A warning that something extraordinary, or at least utterly unhinged, was about ...
Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay: Thought the BBC Was Red, While He Was Busy Turning into a Nazi!
Accusing the BBC of bias is practically a British pastime at the moment. But long before today’s culture warriors started foaming at the mouth about “wokeness”, one man was already insisting the Beeb was a covert outpost of Marxism. His name was Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay, and he took things so far to the right that he eventually ended up behind a barbed...