A group of around eight people, some holding hands, jump together from the North Tower.

Peter Hitchens when it was getting dark at 7pm in summer.

Whenever you see someone feign anger about British museums stealing artifacts, remember that this is the alternative.

Also the incentive effect of a LVT doesn't work when doing anything to increase the productivity of the land is effectively illegal

It says an awful lot about France - and not in a good way - that there is "political divide" on using air conditioning when temperatures literally exceed those of the Sahara desert, and when France has one of the greenest energy mixes in the world (thanks to nuclear). And it says even more that those who oppose AC are often the same as those who oppose nuclear: the view - presumably - is that you should neither adapt to climate change (AC) nor prevent it (nuclear). Also the same people, incidentally, who oppose pesticides and fertilizers - basically modern farming - and push for all-organic: a prescription that, if universally applied, would literally starve billions of people (and, ironically, would require so much additional farmland it would devastate the world's remaining forests). It's all part of the same logical fallacy, the notion that if something causes a problem, then that thing is the problem. Yes progress and technology caused and continue to cause plenty of environmental issues. And there is indeed something seductive in saying "we've gone too far, let's change tracks, let's head towards a simpler, slower life, we used to be like that." But not only is this just not feasible without causing far greater harm to ourselves, it's also a fundamentally nihilistic and mortiferous ideology. One that rests on a profound discomfort with what's arguably the single most defining feature of humanity: our ability to shape our environment to suit us, to fight our circumstances rather than surrender to them. That's been the case ever since we discovered fire and invented farming. It is, at the end of the day, the transformation of humanity's genius - our need to create and improve our condition - into a vice. They make it sound like a humanistic project but how could it be since the core premise is fear of humans and contempt for our very nature? Conclusion: yes, 100 times yes, use AC. You'd need to be a complete moron to let yourself boil under 43C heat in order to "save the planet." If climate change is to be solved, it will be by getting the ideologues out of the way of the people who actually fix things.

“Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy.”

Elon Musk is about to become a trillionaire If he agreed to pay just 80% of that as a wealth tax to the EU, the EU government could use its efficient operating experience to fund bicycles with solar panels attached to them for over 40 residents of the Netherlands Elon is being selfish by not paying the wealth tax

This decade's Liam Byrne note

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

Frozen peas in UK 🇬🇧 are incredible value for money at £1.56/kg, whilst@in Finland 🇫🇮 £5.07/kg 🫛🫛🫛🫛

Keir Starmer taking his anger out on the weather machine this afternoon

Coal miner, union activist, and singer Nimrod Workman performs the traditional Appalachian folk song 'Oh Death'

Attenborough just read scripts and was paid fortunes. David Bellamy was qualified, the real deal, who knew the science. He got ousted from the BBC for telling the truth and died in relative anonymity.

BREAKING NEWS: @SCCCBrianTheCat back at the CACG and gearing up for #SOMvYOR Day Two ❤️ #YouAreSomerset

Wealth is more equally distributed in Britain than in Sweden, Germany or the Netherlands – UBS Global Wealth Report 2025 ubs.com/global/en/wealthmana…

Literally every Green Party policy -

Wernher von Braun, director of NASA's Marchall Space Flight Center, at his office in Huntsville, Alabama 1965.

Most Brits probably just think your social class has introduced enough dangerous predators into our ecosystem in recent years without adding bears to the mix.

This is probably a good time to revisit some of my allotment horror stories. If you don’t already know, we run an allotment site on our farm and have done since 2010. We’ve met some lovely people. We’ve also met some horrible ones. 1

34 years ago today, Barney Gumble and Wade Boggs got into a raucous debate over England’s greatest prime minister. “Homer at the Bat” first aired on February 20, 1992.