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In the two latest by-elections in the UK, Reform got 10% and 13% of the vote. Up from in the mid single figures. Something is waking up in the UK. From the UK Telegraph:
Energy and net zero
Mr Tice has been one of the most vocal opponents of net zero in British politics – referring to it as “net stupid” – and Reform would abandon all existing carbon emissions targets.
The party plans to accelerate oil and gas licences in the North Sea, build high-efficiency combined cycle gas turbines and restart coal mines “using the latest cleanest techniques”.
Renewables would be stripped of existing government subsidies, with Reform claiming “they must stand on their own merit”.
“Westminster’s obsession with net zero is making us all net poorer every year,” its pre-manifesto document said last year. “It is creating more emissions, not less, as it forces us to buy our energy from overseas.”
I haven’t paid the closest attention to the defamation case and its details, and the differentiated cash awards ordered really send a signal to me that it was about how the jury “judged” the two different defendants. At the beginning of the whole thing wasn’t part of the problem them comparing Mann to a major sexual criminal? In my writing days as an ink-stained wretch of the Fourth Estate, that would have been per se defamation.
It reinforces the old saying about being your own lawyer and having a fool for a client.
The best reports indicate Mann’s lawyer reshaped the trial into a defense of climate science from climate deniers and Trump voters rather than any actual defamation of Mann himself.
What was said was that the same University persons that exonerated Sandusky of sexual abuse…
… were the same people that exonerated Mann of scientific abuse.
Blocking the Sun.. Think Highland movies,..
Can’t remember which one
Highlander II, I think – the really bad one (yes worse than casting a Frenchman as Scottish and the Scotsman as Egyptian).
Not fair.. you guys are having way too much fun !! 🙂 🙂
My neighbour has 6 cats !! 🙂