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Monday, 8 December 2025

A Few Aritcles For the UK

 

A miserable society overdosed on happy pills

Robin Fellow
A miserable society overdosed on happy pills

IT WOULD seem reasonable to consider a country’s fertility rate (FR) as a proxy for optimism about the citizens’ future. If so, the Sudanese, with an FR of 4.1, are optimists compared with the British, FR 1.4. And yet many Sudanese want to exchange warm sunny Sudan for cold wet Britain. How odd. Statistics can […]

How universities have corrupted climate science

Dr Shane Fudge
How universities have corrupted climate science

IN MY last article, The cult that academic climate change research is trapped in – The Conservative Woman I argued that the ‘science’ of climate change is in effect a cult, and that my experience working in a climate research department at the University of Surrey checks many of the boxes of such organisations. I […]

The Secret Diary of Nigel Farage, aged 13¾

Alexander McKibbin
The Secret Diary of Nigel Farage, aged 13¾

WITH little of consequence occurring in the world, it has fallen to the Guardian to expose the vile anti-Semitic and racist slurs that the leader of the Reform Party espoused as a teenager. The UK has been convulsed by a series of jolting revelations, each more disturbing than the last. Underscoring its credentials as an […]

Return of the mask maniacs

Roger Watson
Return of the mask maniacs

REALLY, it was only a matter of time, wasn’t it? Representatives of the Monster Raving Mask Wearing Party are back at it. Fanatics at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) are urging the public to wear face masks again in view of the forthcoming flu season which, like all the ones that have gone before it, […]

Elf Hills and another nail in farming’s coffin

Philip Walling
Elf Hills and another nail in farming’s coffin

ON A dull November Saturday a couple of weeks ago I found myself among a hundred or so country people – ageing farmers and others along for the show – at Elf Hills on the National Trust’s (NT) Wallington estate in Northumberland, where the tackle and equipment of nearly four decades of livestock farming of […]