Keir Starmer thinks ‘this is the time now to lower the temperature’ on the gender debate. To ‘move forward’. To ‘conduct this debate with the care and compassion that it deserves’. That is what he said at Prime Minister’s Questions. What a shallow, hollow man he is.
FOR YEARS we have been told that renewable energy would reduce our bills. It was always a lie, of course. This year alone, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) reckon subsidies for renewables will add £12billion to our bills.
AT THE same time as Henry Getley had his ‘preparing for power cut’ (courtesy of his energy supplier) leaflet drop on to his doormat, Ed Miliband’s new National Electricity System Operator (NESO) revealed their plans to minimise the risk of ‘disruption’ (aka blackouts). The penny has dropped. They’re going to need to ‘stabilise net zero electricity transmission systems and minimise the risk of blackouts’, which spelled out means dealing with the unreliability of wind and solar energy the country is being forced to harness while they ditch reliable fossil fuel and nuclear-generated supplies.
THEY claim they are going to make Britain an energy superpower and bring down energy bills for good. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Secretary of State for Energy and Net Zero Ed Miliband are talking wind, mainly offshore wind.
Is the UK still a ‘staunch ally’ of Israel? Defence Secretary John Healey insisted so on the broadcast round this morning. But his claim is coming under scrutiny following the government’s decision to suspend 30 out of 350 arms export licences to Israel, thereby affecting equipment which includes parts for fighter jets, drones and helicopters.
Many Americans have a rose-tinted picture of Britain, influenced no doubt by watching Jane Austen dramas or the televisual exploits of Miss Marple or James Herriot, not to mention royal weddings, coronations and funerals. I sometimes wish the reality matched their romantic imaginings.
NEWS just in from Keir Starmer – everything will be fine if you just vote for him at the next election. What’s that now, you ask, the next election is in 2029, and we elected you as Prime Minister two minutes ago. Can’t you get anything done between now and 2029?
This isn’t a column about Rowling’s views on sex and gender. It’s about her anger and her refusal, her unflinching, unapologetic and utterly glorious refusal to be kind.
The prime minister is very unpopular, and the Tories are currently polling at catastrophic levels, but there is little enthusiasm for Labour and more people think the country will get worse than better after they are elected.
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