We are at war with our governments

 We are living in a House of Mirrors. They’re not the splendid, gold-framed mirrors they have in the over-gilded, absurdly ostentatious palace at Versailles, but a mixture of those distorting mirrors they used to have at fairgrounds. There is a war going on but most of it we cannot see, and that which we can see is distorted and bewildering. The war is behind the scenes and the war is between us (the public) and our governments.

In the last few years we have seen the development of a new form of slavery, and today a huge percentage of the global population has become victims of the Modern Slave Trade. And in the cowardly new world which is being created for us, the medium has taken over from the message and is the far more important of the two. The message, the truth, is hidden from us. Communication is out of control. We are swamped with useless information. Most people simply do as they are told; they no longer listen to what they are hearing or really register what they are seeing because they don’t know what to believe. They just do what they are told to do. Stay indoors, wear a mask, have another vaccination. Thinking is out of date and is close to becoming a crime.

You may find it sickening, and difficult to believe, but in this book, I will show that everything bad that is happening is deliberate. The lockdowns that killed, the toxic covid vaccine (which has clearly killed far more people than it could ever have saved), the loss of our freedom and privacy, the rapid digitalisation of health and cash, the difficulties of travel, the pressure to accept yet more vaccines and so on are all part of an obscene plan that would fit well into a James Bond movie – one of the old ones with Sean Connery up against Ernst Stavro Blofeld....<<<Read More>>>...

Will Your Phone Allow You to Read This Article?

 How old are you? Sorry to ask such a personal question but I need to check you are old enough to read this article. I can’t remember the last time I was asked if I was old enough for anything, so it was a shock when I was asked last week. But not by a person, by my phone, just after it automatically installed the Apple iOS 26.4 update. It was more than asking, it needed verification: ID, credit cards, the usual list. Why? We all know why, don’t we? Or do we?

Let’s start with what is and is not changing. The most recent iOS update on iPhones and iPads in the UK asks the owner to log in to their Apple account (which means they identify themselves), then “Confirm You are 18+”. It explains why: “to change content restrictions”, so it complies with GDPR (you must plainly state your purpose for requesting personal data) and you cannot just self-certify an affirmative answer, you need to offer what in digital ID circles is known as a verifiable credential: your Apple account, a credit card or government issued ID card. This looks like a requirement from the UK Online Safety Act which requires “highly effective” age verification. You do get the option to not confirm (again keeping it GDPR compliant) in which case you will find in your phone’s settings that the content and privacy restrictions that default to OFF are instead now ON and the web content setting has been set to “Limit Adult Websites”. If you try to change that you will be prompted again to confirm your age. Choosing to not confirm your age and not being able to do so for whatever reason end up with the same status: you cannot access ‘adult’ content on the web. There ain’t no way round it other than verifying your 18+ status. Forget VPNs and forget “privacy preserving” browsers such as DuckDuckGo, Brave or even Tor.

What is going on? Clearly there is a political aspect to this but as this is an article from your IT correspondent let’s start with the tech. How can it affect all browsers, especially ones not supplied by Apple? Despite appearances to the contrary, there are only really three web browsers: Blink with 70% market share which you may know better as Chrome, Edge, Opera or Brave; Gecko from Mozilla in the form of Firefox and finally WebKit, presented as Safari. But on Apple mobile devices outside the EU, Apple mandates all browsers to use their WebKit WKWebView API for rendering and JavaScript. That means Chrome, Firefox, DuckDuckGo even Tor on your iPhone render web pages just the same as Safari under the covers. That gives Apple mobile devices a unique pinch point where all web content can be filtered and the 26.4 update uses it. This pinch point is only on Apple mobile devices, so not in its desktops and of course not in the non-Apple Android, Windows or Linux eco systems....<<<Read More>>>...

Global crackdown on free speech: Digital dictatorship looms as governments jail citizens for “indecent” content

 Governments (U.A.E., U.K., Germany) are imprisoning citizens for private messages, truthful reporting or criticism of policies, under vague "public security" laws.

Tech giants (Microsoft, Google) and governments are capturing screenshots, scanning devices and monitoring all digital activity under the guise of AI training—creating a backdoor for total control.

Algorithms now pre-censor "extremist" speech (including criticism of Israel or COVID policies), while identity verification mandates hand personal data to intelligence-linked corporations.

The U.K.'s mandatory conscription proposal and disaster prep warnings signal impending militarization, while the U.S. faces UN/WHO treaties that override sovereignty with digital IDs and medical mandates.

New laws (U.K.'s Online Safety Act, Israel's misinformation penalties) jail truth-tellers, while elites and mainstream media enjoy immunity—proving this is about silencing dissent, not public safety.

In a disturbing escalation of government overreach, nations worldwide are tightening their grip on digital communication, criminalizing dissent and punishing ordinary citizens for sharing information deemed "indecent" or "harmful to public security." Recent cases in Dubai and the U.K. highlight a chilling trend toward digital authoritarianism, where individuals face imprisonment for private messages, photos or even truthful reporting—raising alarms about the rise of a social credit-style surveillance state...<<<Read More>>>...

Energy lockdowns begin

The world is experiencing the start of a new lockdown – this time related to energy use with the International Energy Agency (“IEA”) playing a key role, similar to the role the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) played during the covid-19 pandemic.

“Energy lockdown” refers to government-enforced or encouraged measures to reduce fuel, gas and electricity consumption in response to “global supply shocks.” The “energy lockdown” trend has gained momentum this month following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to the US-Israel-Iran conflict.

Is it just a coincidence that “energy lockdowns” will achieve what Globalists have been aiming for, for years?

You recall how the covid lockdowns began. It was a soft and slow drumbeat that began in late January 2020, with growing amounts of panic and a faster tempo, increasing for several weeks. The US President and the UK Prime Minister resisted extreme reactions. Most governments did and so did most public health authorities.

The drum pounding became earsplitting in late February. Faced with an incredible barrage, finally Boris Johnson and Donald Trump gave in. They got out in front of the problem and lowered the boom: stay home, essential/unessential, no flights, no parties, stop your consumerist ways. Just sit alone and be sad. Both came to regret this choice, but by then, others were in charge.

The experts and institutions were everywhere, seizing the moment. The CCP, WHO, CDC, Imperial College London, Fauci, Birx, CNN/New York Times/MSNBC, and on it went, everyone telling us the same thing daily. Those who asked questions were shouted down, shamed, throttled, cancelled, deleted. It felt like we were surrounded on all sides by lies and liars, marionettes and mushbrains, sycophants and spooks.

Six years later and nearly to the day, this new attempted lockdown seems to be going the same way, not concerning infectious disease but energy use. Isn’t it remarkable how the officially recommended methods of managing these completely different realms bear so much in common? They both come down to restricting your liberty, rationing your consumption, redirecting your attention and shouting down critics.

The Iran War kicked off the price spike but it was uncanny how a machinery was so quickly put in place to instruct everyone on what to do. The panic about how to respond is intensifying. The crisis is without precedent, they say. We have to try new approaches, dramatic ones.

Suddenly, this institution called the International Energy Agency holds new prominence in the world media. Founded in 1974, it’s an NGO associated with OPEC. It has no hard but only soft power – like the World Health Organisation, with whom the IEA shares a similarly authoritative branding...<<<Read More>>>....

School Lockdown Drills Are Keeping Britain’s Children in Perpetual Terror

 Here comes April, and with it the blossomed pear-tree and the chaffinch on the orchard bough – or so Robert Browning would have us believe. In my Sixth Form college, spring is announced rather differently: heralded not by birdsong but by the now-annual Lockdown Training Session, a grim modern-day equivalent of ‘Duck and Cover’ in which staff and students rehearse what to do when a deranged gunman comes knocking.

The session, delivered simultaneously by subject teachers during period two on a scintillatingly bright Tuesday morning, begins with a tannoy announcement from the Principal. Adopting the calm voice of an aircraft pilot whose plane has hit unexpected turbulence, he reassures students that what follows is a wholly preventative measure and that the need for actual lockdown is vanishingly small. Students’ faces are fixed with wry smiles in a show of performative nonchalance, yet their steely eyes betray an attentiveness I can only dream of in my ordinary lessons. Suddenly, I’m transported back to my own youth in the 1980s, where the threat of nuclear annihilation provided a humming backdrop to video rental stores, Sony Walkmans and New Romanticism.

Next comes the 30-second blast of the Lockdown Siren: a bleating screech punctuated by a relentless “Lockdown! Lockdown!” that gets teeth grating. It’s equal parts Jon Pertwee-era Doctor Who and some forgotten public information film from the 1970s — theatrical, absurd and quietly chilling. All smiles vanish....<<<Read More>>>...

How and why your life is being deliberately destroyed

 It is difficult to know when the conspiracy began – but conspiracy there is. And it is not theoretical – it’s very real. It is equally difficult to know who was behind it for the conspirators themselves have always hidden behind “handmaidens” and “apparatchiks” trained by organisations such as the World Economic Forum and Common Purpose.

The only certainty is that the original conspirators died long ago and the plot has been passed down through the generations, with powerful bankers; the descendants of former Nazis and members of European royalty making up a disparate and unlikely board of management for the conspiracy.

One certainty is that the conspiracy has become more complex, more sophisticated, and more evil with each year that has passed. Another certainty is that the apparent protagonists (you undoubtedly know their names as well as I do and since I’d like to be able to publish this book, you can fill them in for yourself) who think they rule the world are merely figure heads causing chaos, promoting their own lunatic ideas, making obscene amounts of money (largely by cheating and crookery) pretending to be philanthropists, exhibiting their own absurd hypocrisies and idiosyncrasies but following the game plan prepared for them by the Bilderbergers, the insiders at the World Economic Forum, members of at least two royal families and by a cluster of old school bankers left over from Jekyll Island, and doing what they are told to do.

Everything bad that has happened, and is happening, has a purpose. Everything bad that is happening was planned...<<<Read More>>>...

Muslim Cheerleaders Are Making the Same Mistake as the Trans Lobbyists

 The tipping point, jumping the shark, enough is enough – however you want to express it, the communal prayer in Trafalgar Square was one raised bottom too many for a lot of people, Nick Timothy MP included. It is worth pausing for a moment to consider why it was this particular event that aggravated the ordinary chap in the street. 

I think it’s less the specifically Islamic aspect of the event, rather the in-your-face-nature of it all. It seems that those seeking to make Islam ‘mainstream’ and ‘nothing to be frightened of’ and ‘just another way of being’ are making the same mistake as the extreme end of the trans lobby: forcing it down our throats.

Britain is a tolerant country but what we dislike more than anything is ‘showing off’. The kids have an aversion to ‘try hards’ or ‘pick mes’ those types who always want to be first, at the front of the queue or given a special pat on the head. There is something instinctively British about this modest attitude and it’s one that special interest groups would be wise to remember....<<<Read More>>>....

Electric Car Charging Points Hit by 38,000% Surge in Energy Bills

Electric vehicle charging companies have warned that they could be forced to raise prices as they battle 38,000% increases to their energy bills. The Telegraph has more.

ChargeUK, which represents operators, says charging stations are being squeezed by network charges that have increased dramatically in just a few years.

In one example, major charging provider Osprey said its bills at a site in Wolverhampton had increased from £87 per year to £33,651 per year since 2022 – an increase of 38,579%.

Rival Fastned said it was now paying £41,000 a year for a site in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, while a third charging provider complained that its network charges had increased by 250% in just four years and are now “well into six figures”.

Network charges are levied to fund the maintenance and expansion of Britain’s electricity grid, which is undergoing a once-in-a-generation overhaul as part of plans to reach Net Zero.

These charges are set by Ofgem, the regulator, based on cost projections provided by network companies such as the National Grid.

The large rise in network charges follows changes to how they are calculated, made in 2023, with greater emphasis now being put on the size of a site’s grid connection rather than power consumption.

However, ChargeUK says the system now effectively penalises EV charging companies for “building ahead of demand” even though this is what the Government is urging them to do.

Ministers have set a target of 300,000 public EV chargers by 2030 and a string of reports by Parliament and think tanks have repeatedly identified charger availability as key to tackling so-called “range anxiety”....<<<Read More>>>...

Welfare doesn’t pull people out of poverty – economic growth and freedom do

 Before the rapid expansion of the welfare state, most people were earning their way out of poverty. Across the world, economic growth driven by liberalisation helped pull almost one billion people out of extreme poverty from 1990 to 2010.

In the USA, “The most powerful anti-poverty programme had no enrolment forms, caseworkers or spending bills. It was a growing economy that helped millions of people earn their way to a better life,” Tyler Turman writes.

America has spent more than $20 trillion on fighting poverty since the introduction of President Johnson’s Great Society programme in 1964. Sixty years later, how are we doing?

That depends, as it turns out, on how you measure it.

Last month, Senator Kennedy (R-LA) introduced a bill that would require the Census Bureau to report a new poverty metric as an alternative to the Official Poverty Measure (“OPM”) by including both cash and non-cash welfare benefits in its calculations.

As Kennedy points out, this is a much-needed fix. The OPM’s methodological weaknesses are well documented. Most notably, it ignores the hundreds of billions of dollars the government spends each year to assist low-income families through tax credits like the Earned Income Tax Credit and in-kind transfers such as Medicaid, food stamps and housing subsidies. In short, the OPM paints an egregiously inaccurate picture of material poverty in America....<<<Read More>>>...

Meningitis: Media promoted fear vs reality

A recent meningitis outbreak in the UK prompted a surge of panicked headlines – followed by acknowledgement, and relief, that cases may already have peaked. What should we all know about this disease?

“Outbreaks are alarming, and fear is exacerbated by media reporting. But although meningitis spreads via close, prolonged contact … it is not highly contagious,” World Council for Health writes.

This month, a meningitis outbreak among students in Kent, England – linked to a nightclub in Canterbury – was the subject of serious concern. It tragically claimed the lives of two young people: a teenager and a 21-year-old.

The media coverage was alarming: for example, “The deadly delays in tackling meningitis outbreak,” The Telegraph said. And “experts warn of explosive outbreak … one of the fastest-growing outbreaks of the disease they have seen in the UK,” The Guardian reported.

Yet a few days later, the tone and content were calmer. The BBC announced, “Meningitis outbreak passes peak, says health agency.” Similarly, The Guardian went with, “Kent meningitis outbreak may have peaked as UKHSA reports slowdown in cases.” And the Daily Mail confirmed that “Meningitis cases fall as health officials reveal some people were wrongly told they had the disease.”

So, what are the facts about meningitis, and what do the statistics actually show us? (N.B. Information presented here is up-to-date at the time of writing.)

Meningitis is not a single disease. It’s an umbrella term which covers inflammation of the brain/spinal cord (the meninges).  

Most cases are not the dangerous kind. Viral meningitis is far more common and usually self-limiting. Bacterial meningitis is rarer but more serious. 

Overall risk is to the public is low. Total meningitis deaths (from all causes combined) are typically in the low hundreds per year. The meningococcal form – which is most associated with outbreaks among young people – accounts for only a small fraction of these. In England in 2023-4, there were 8 recorded deaths from meningococcal disease, compared with around 30 deaths in adjacent years. The case fatality rate may appear to fluctuate a lot, but that is a normal statistical volatility owing to the small numbers overall.  

Many people carry the bacteria harmlessly. Around 1 in 10 people may carry meningococcal bacteria without symptoms.  

Early symptoms are non-specific. These include common symptoms such as headache, fever and nausea. But severe cases can deteriorate very quickly....<<<Read More>>>....

Islamologica

 Islamophobia is an irresponsible word – a political word. Let’s have, instead, some Islamologica.

I have written about Islam twice before, here and here, and I think the points I made there bear repetition and summary.

First, I argued that Islam is: 1. One 2. Unconvertible 3. Power. Hegel: “The worship of the One is the only final aim of Monometalism.”
Belloc: “It is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilisation has had, and may at any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past… [Because] Islam is apparently unconvertible.”
Girard: “For Islam, God is essentially power.”

And second, I argued that though Islam is obsessed with Oneness, tawhid, as they call it, this oneness is at least not Chinese. The oneness of Islam does not simply sanction any earthly order, like ‘All-Under-Heaven’, i.e. China – and this is because Islam, like the religion of the Israelites and Christianity, is about the kingship of God.

The second point is an essential correction to the first. Yes, Islam seeks hegemony – but it is not simply an earthly hegemony. It is a hegemony that is sanctioned by, and ultimately ruled by, God. This means it is very strong, no doubt: men have fire in their eyes as they seek hegemony and they feel justified. But it also means that this fire can be turned against the state. And NB, what we in the West think of as Islamic states are, in fact, nervous entities, since Islam is an uncertain sword in the ruler’s hand – it can be used against him.

The next thing to bring into play is a point I made when discussing the West. Our particular problem is not Islam as such. Our particular problem is with Islam in the context of Western states, where Western states are 1. liberal and 2. Christian or post-Christian. And this is not a simple problem because we, in the West, continually argue about whether liberalism is just secular in some absolute sense, or only secular in the Christian sense that we live in the saeculum of the earthly expectation that Jesus will come again and that, until he does, we have to do the best we can with Hobbes’s Leviathan or Schmitt’s katechon. Deep waters.

Let me repeat that point because I do not want it to be lost. It matters that we are unsure about how Christian our liberal order is, and that we are also unsure about what liberalism entails. Let me deal with them one by one – first Christianity, then liberalism....<<<Read More>>>...

The Deep State Plan to Use Smart Appliances to Force Us to Cut Energy Use is Already Well Advanced

 In order to understand anything about public policy as the 21st century progresses, it is critically important to hone one’s ability to read esoterically. What is important is not what is said, but what is not said. There is the official, publicly acceptable, ‘exoteric’ line. And then there is the truth that lies underneath – often deliberately obscured.

I was thinking about this the other day when reading, as one tends to do over a nice lunch at the local Italian bistro with a pizza and a glass of red, a 2015 position paper on ‘Making the electricity system more flexible and delivering the benefits for consumers’. This was issued by Ofgem (the quango which regulates the energy market in the UK) at the start of the ongoing process to transform our energy market into one governed by “energy smart appliances”. These, for those who have been paying attention, are electric devices (your fridge, your washing machine, your EV charger, etc.) which are able to respond to ‘load control’ signals issued through the internet, and thereby reduce or delay energy consumption. Or, to put it more bluntly, appliances which can be controlled remotely so as to limit how much electricity households are able to use. Coming soon to a kitchen near you.

The last time I wrote about this issue in substance was in 2023, not long before the Energy Act 2023 was enacted. That statute created the legal framework within which the use of energy smart appliances could be mandated and regulated. We now find ourselves entering the next stage: gradual implementation. A draft set of regulations, the Energy Smart Appliances Regulations 2026, is currently making its way through Parliament. This, we are told, is the “first phase“. The regulations, among other things, provide for “minimum smart functionality, safety, grid stability requirements and cyber and physical security requirements”, and “the creation of a single regulatory framework for smart appliances”. We can then look forward to a “second phase” beginning in 2027, when presumably things will start to get more serious.

What is going on? Clearly, and I use this phrase advisedly, a Deep State project is afoot. 2015 is quite a long time ago now: there have been four General Elections since then, not to mention 500 or so Prime Ministers and an awful lot of turmoil (Brexit, lockdowns, Ukraine, mini-budget, etc.). But the shift towards mandating the installation and use of energy smart appliances has continued regardless. It is almost as though it is not politicians who have been driving the policy, but Ofgem acting in cahoots with civil servants in the then-Department of Energy and Climate Change, who also issued a very similar policy paper in 2015 to Ofgem’s own. It is not our elected representatives who want us to use energy smart appliances, in other words. It is the regulators. And the policy is invincible to changes in government.

This makes it far more important, in getting to grips with the idea, to read what the regulators say over what politicians do. And what they say has to be parsed carefully. There is in fact a glossary of terms which of necessity have to be read esoterically – they are used not just to obfuscate but often actually to give the opposite impression to what is really going on. One has to grapple with the exoteric and often flip it upside down to find out what is underneath.

The Ofgem position paper which I mentioned earlier is a very good illustration. And this begins with the title: ‘Making the electricity system more flexible and delivering the benefits for consumers’. This sounds, on the face of it, like something benign. Indeed, if anything, it is suggestive of a free market approach – it looks to the naked eye as if the strategy is to liberalise the energy market in order to drive down prices at the supply side. But that is in fact more or less the exact opposite of what the position paper sets out. In fact, what it is focused on is something which it calls Demand Side Flexibility (DSF), or sometimes Demand Side Response (DSR) – better understood as precisely the reverse of supply-side reform.

What, then, is Demand Side Flexibility? Well, the position paper goes to great lengths to make clear what a good thing it is. Demand Side Flexibility, it says, is about “empowerment” of consumers. It is about helping them to “better monitor and manage their energy use” and “make informed choices about when they use electricity”. It us about giving them “opportunities to lower [their] bills by changing when and how [they]” do so. Indeed, it is about giving them the space in which to ‘smarten’ their approach to energy use in the round....<<<Read More>>>...

Why They No Longer Need Us: The Dawn of Post-Human Labor

 I stand at a precipice, looking out over a landscape that is no longer ours. The convergence of abundant energy and machine cognition has rendered human labor and thought obsolete. This isn't a distant prophecy; it is the lived reality of 2026. Globalist planners, the architects of this new world, have crossed a threshold where humanity is now a liability, not an asset. 

They see our consumption, our need for housing and healthcare, and our restless desire for freedom as friction in their perfectly optimized, AI-driven system.

We are at a historic pivot point, and denial is a luxury we cannot afford. As one article starkly puts it, this represents one of the greatest existential threats to human freedom, dignity and consciousness. The evidence is not hidden; it's in the mass layoffs at corporations like Amazon and UPS, where AI-driven automation has already replaced tens of thousands of human workers. The end of the human era isn't coming -- it has arrived, and its architects are already drawing up the blueprints for what, or rather who, comes next...<<<Read More>>>....

M&S Accuses Labour of Driving up Energy Bills

 M&S has accused the Government of driving up energy bills, with CEO Stuart Machin saying taxes and levies now account for more than half of his company’s energy costs and have “nothing to do with the price of oil or gas”. The Telegraph has the story.

Stuart Machin, who runs the retail giant, said Government-imposed levies now accounted for more than half of his company’s energy costs and had “nothing to do with the price of oil or gas”.

“Over the last few years the ‘policy costs’ on our energy bill have skyrocketed,” Machin wrote on LinkedIn.

“These are the tariffs that [the Government] place on our bills to fund their policies, and have nothing to do with the price of oil or gas. They now make up over half our bill. It’s just not sustainable for UK businesses.”

The comments came as the OECD said Britain faced the biggest hit from surging oil and gas prices out of any major economy.

Inflation will surge more sharply than in other developed nations and wipe half a percentage point off UK growth this year, according to its forecast.

The UK is particularly exposed because of its heavy reliance on imported energy. Oil prices have risen from $70 per barrel a month ago to around $100 today, while natural gas prices have nearly doubled since the start of the war in Iran.

The OECD’s forecast is a blow to the Government, which before the start of the conflict in the Gulf had hoped that cost-of-living pressures would ease this year.

Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, said the UK had not started the war but that it would have “an impact on our country”. She insisted Labour had “the right economic plan”.

Machin’s frustration with Government policy stems from green energy levies added to the wholesale price of energy....<<<Read More>>>....

Islamification of the West: Muslims are simply doing what Muslims have always done

 Last year, Raymond Ibrahim explained what the concept of ribat is, both historically and today. Because the Koran instructs Muslims to form ribats to carry out jihad against infidels, when Muslims enter a Western nation, they instinctively form ribats.

Muslims are simply doing what Muslims have always done, he said. What has changed is that our politicians are inviting them into our nations and supporting them while they do it.

Ribat is an Arabic term originally denoting a small frontier fortification built during the early Muslim conquests, particularly in the 8th century, to house volunteer soldiers who defended Islamic territories (dar al-Islam). These structures were initially established along frontiers such as those in North Africa and the Byzantine borderlands to support military efforts in jihad.

Contemporary use of the term “ribat” has been defined as keeping watch and carrying out jihad against infidels. It has been used by terrorist groups such as al-Qa’ida and ISIS.

As Raymond Ibrahim explains below, the Koran 3 verse 200 instructs Muslims to endure and remain fastened. The Arabic word used is “raabitoo,” the verb of “ribat.” In other words, according to the Koran, “for Muslims to be successful, they must form tightly fastened strongholds along the borders of still to be conquered non-Muslim regions. From there, they persevere and endure, to use the Koran’s words, in their jihad to conquer and seize the lands of the infidels.”...<<<Read More>>>...

Starmer: It’s Up to Miliband Whether We Drill in North Sea

 Sir Keir Starmer has said it is Ed Miliband’s decision whether Britain drills for oil and gas in the North Sea, claiming he has no power in the matter. The Telegraph has more.

The Prime Minister claimed he had no power to approve more licences and insisted that the final call lay with the Energy Secretary.

Labour is under mounting pressure – including from Donald Trump – to approve new extraction at Rosebank and Jackdaw, two fossil fuel sites in the North Sea, after the Iran war caused energy costs to spiral.

At Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservatives, said that Sir Keir could make the decision to drill today and accused him of “hiding behind” Miliband.

Critics have already claimed that Miliband wields too much power over the Prime Minister after he successfully led opposition to the UK allowing the US to strike Iran from British bases.

Despite the energy crisis, Miliband has reiterated his vocal opposition to North Sea drilling, arguing repeatedly that it would not bring down prices.

When Badenoch challenged Sir Keir to approve the licences, the Prime Minister insisted that current laws prevented him from overruling the Energy Secretary.

Sir Keir suggested any move by Miliband to drill would be a legal decision rather than political, saying: “It’s absolutely clear that the quasi-judicial duty of the legislation rests with the Secretary of State.”

He added: “The only way forward is to go further and faster on renewables and the leader of the Opposition’s approach is to outsource our foreign policy and let the US decide whether we go to war, to outsource our energy policy to Russia and Iran and let them set the price of energy. I will never do that, because it’s not in the British national interest.”

Badenoch had questioned whether it was Sir Keir or Miliband, who has been touted as a potential leadership contender, who was really in charge.

The Tory leader said: “The Jackdaw gas field could be up and running before winter. All that gas would be used here in the UK to heat 1.6 million homes – that is enough to power Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex put together.

“So will the Prime Minister approve the licences or is the Energy Secretary running the Government?”

Badenoch added: “He is hiding behind so many people. He is the Prime Minister, he can make the decision today, he can. He is so weak, he’s the first person to be pushed around by the Energy Secretary.”

She later shared an image of Sir Keir with his head in his hands shortly after PMQs with the caption: “TFW [that feeling when] Ed Miliband is running the Government.”...<<<Read More>>>...

Study: Millions report illness from proximity to wireless radiation

 A new peer-reviewed study estimates over 26 million adults across the U.S., Australia, and Canada report health symptoms linked to wireless radiation exposure.

The condition, termed EMR Syndrome, shows significant overlap with other conditions like chemical sensitivity, asthma, and autism, suggesting a common inflammatory pathway.

Researchers warn that expanding wireless infrastructure, including 5G, may be contributing to the rising prevalence of reported sensitivity.

Historical parallels are drawn to the tobacco industry, with allegations that science on wireless radiation risks has been suppressed by influential corporate interests.

Experts advocate for a precautionary approach, recommending wired alternatives at home and greater public awareness of potential health impacts.

A groundbreaking international study has revealed that a significant portion of the adult population directly links their chronic health struggles to the invisible sea of wireless radiation. Published in Next Research, the analysis of nationally representative surveys from the United States, Australia, and Canada found that approximately one in eight U.S. adults report adverse health effects from exposure to devices like cell phones, Wi-Fi routers, and cell towers. The findings, which estimate over 26 million affected adults across the three nations, arrive amid longstanding accusations from public health advocates that the science on electromagnetic field (EMF) risks has been systematically downplayed, drawing unsettling parallels to the tobacco industry’s past tactics of suppression and doubt....<<<Read More>>>....

The Gigabit Broadband Rollout Shows How Government Wastes Our Money

 In 2019, a simple political promise was made: ‘Gigabit broadband for every home.’ It sounded like progress. It sounded modern. But as monthly internet bills creep toward £40 or £50, it’s time to ask: are we paying for a service we actually need, or are we funding a massive private equity ‘rent-trap’?

To modernise the UK’s phones, we had to move from old copper wires to digital fibre. The old system was rotting; the change was necessary. But there were two ways to do it:

The engineered way: run fibre cables to the green cabinets at the end of your street, then use existing wires for the last few yards into your house. This is fast enough for 4K TV, Zoom and gaming for 95% of users.

Cost: Roughly £100 per household.

The ‘gold-plated’ way: dig up every single driveway and garden in the UK to run a brand-new glass cable directly into every living room.

Cost: Roughly £1,700 per household.

By choosing the second option, the government turned a manageable £3 billion upgrade into a staggering £50 billion-plus mega-project.

What else could £54 billion buy?

We are currently living through a national debate about where our money goes. Recent reports have highlighted that the UK’s annual benefits bill increase is approximately £18 billion – a figure often used to show how much we could have spent on 15 advanced Royal Navy frigates or 220 fighter jets.

If £18 billion is considered a transformative sum for national defence, consider the £54 billion (combining public subsidies and private equity debt) being sunk into the Gigabit rollout. For the price of ‘full fibre’ to every remote cottage, we could have funded the entire Royal Navy’s modernisation three times over. Instead, that capital is being buried in trenches to provide speeds that most households find totally unnecessary....<<<Read More>>>...

If the American People Were Told the Truth About What’s Coming, They Would Lose Their Minds

 I have been researching and writing about systemic failures for two decades, from Fukushima to our poisoned food supply, but I see a new, insidious parallel unfolding today. In 1986, Soviet authorities lied to the citizens of Pripyat about the Chernobyl disaster, telling them it was safe to board the buses for a 'temporary evacuation.' They were told everything was fine, even as invisible radiation was already destroying their bodies from within.

In my view, the same monstrous lie is being broadcast across America today. The corporate media, acting as a mouthpiece for the state, churns out a steady stream of 'good news' while the architecture of our society is crumbling. Just as those citizens boarded the bus, Americans are being lulled into a false sense of security, unaware of the radiation-like economic fallout headed our way. Our government, like the Soviet one, sees the people as expendable assets for its own geopolitical goals, a truth laid bare by the reckless, illegal war on Iran prosecuted without broad public support. The initial shock of that war is now fading into a fog of official reassurance, a deliberate strategy to keep the public passive.

Do not be fooled by the talk of military victories. The war is coming home, not as ordinance, but as a systemic, financial, and logistical collapse. They lie that 'Iran has nothing left' to conceal the imminent triggers: energy infrastructure attacks that could shatter global hydrocarbon supply chains. The strike on Iran's South Pars gas field wasn't just a military target; it was a strategic hit on the machinery that powers a nation's lights, heat, and factories.

In my view, the panic feared by the globalist controllers isn't over a battlefield loss, but over citizens realizing their banks, pantries, and gas tanks are about to fail. When the Strait of Hormuz -- the aorta of global energy -- is closed or threatened, the entire just-in-time economic model vaporizes. This isn't theory; it's logistical reality. The lie of 'everything is fine' is meant to prevent a run on banks and grocery stores until the moment control is irrevocably lost. They have no plan for the Hormuz humiliation, just as they had no real plan for the health of the citizens after Chernobyl. ....<<<Read More>>>...

British Gas Boss: Drill the North Sea to Bring Down Energy Prices

 The head of British Gas, Chris O’Shea, has become the latest industry figure to contradict Ed Miliband’s claim that drilling the North Sea won’t bring down energy prices by calling on the Government to do precisely that. The Telegraph has more.

The head of British Gas has called on the Government to drop its ban on exploiting untapped oil and gas fields in the North Sea, saying the move would help ease spiralling energy costs.

Chris O’Shea, the Chief Executive of Centrica, which owns British Gas, said an increase in drilling would play a role in efforts to bolster energy resilience after the Iran war sent prices surging.

He said: “I do think that we should look at producing the resources that we have got ourselves. It makes sense. If you’ve got resources, you should.

“It’s not a silver bullet; nothing in and of itself will fix this. But these activities will bring prices down. It would definitely make a difference.”

Asked if increasing North Sea flows would help to lower bills, O’Shea told the BBC it would be sufficient to “make a difference across Europe.”

He said exploiting remaining reserves should be part of a wider strategy that would also include bolstering emergency gas storage.

He said: “There is a need to focus on energy security. I think we need to look at getting more gas storage, we need to look at getting more home-grown renewables and more batteries.”

Centrica is no longer involved in drilling for oil but owns the Rough natural gas storage facility off the east coast of England, which, though largely operational after years of closure, is scheduled to be converted to hold hydrogen as part of Labour’s net zero push.

Mr O’Shea joins a growing chorus of experts calling on Labour to rethink its stance on the North Sea....<<<Read More>>>....