Simon Galbraith

Britain's economy and industrial base are doomed while ideological maniacs like Miliband are in charge of our energy policy. Why would anyone ever invest in a country that allows such dissembling zealots so much power? The govt takes 55% while retailers take 6%.

If the US is asking European and Asian allies to send their navies to the Strait of Hormuz, they should consider demanding an immediate cessation of all US tariffs on them in return. I don't think Trump would hesitate to make that demand, if the situations were reversed.

Britain is without a doubt an anarcho tyranny.

Interesting grammatical ambiguity. I'm 99 percent sure I know the correct interpretation, but not 100.

Activist: "Methane is 80 times worse than CO2." Farmer: "For the first 20 years. Then it breaks down." Activist: "That's still 20 years of warming." Farmer: "Only if you're adding NEW methane. Stable herds are climate neutral." Activist: "That doesn't sound right." Farmer: "Methane from 2026 breaks down to CO2 by 2038. Grass absorbs that CO2 in 2038. Cycle complete." Activist: "But it's still in the atmosphere..." Farmer: "Temporarily. Like water vapor. Should we ban clouds too?" Activist: "That's a false equivalence." Farmer: "That's how biogenic carbon cycles work. Stock vs flow. Basic climate science." Activist: "The IPCC doesn't frame it that way." Farmer: "The IPCC uses GWP100 which doesn't distinguish biogenic from fossil methane. It's a known limitation of the metric." Activist: "You can't just dismiss the IPCC." Farmer: "I'm not dismissing it. I'm adding context you've conveniently ignored."

This perfectly captures my experiences of academics. It also made me laugh out loud. @Aella_Girl is a remarkably thought provoking and insightful person.

Modern Britain in a nutshell.

I’ve chosen this wallpaper for its quintessentially British motifs

I’ve been banned from traveling to the UK. 🇬🇧 No reason given. No right to appeal. Zero due process. Just an email saying the UK government deems me "not conducive to the public good" - exactly three days after I criticized Keir Starmer. I guess my point that the UK is no longer a free country has been indisputably proven.

Nanny state policies might not work in practice but at least they work in theory.

Brave Iranian women have been in the forefront of the current protests against the Iranian regime. Not surprising since woman have most to gain in terms of equality, rights and freedom if the current theocracy was swept away. Proper prominent feminists like JK Rowling have publicly given their support. But celebrity feminists on both sides of the Atlantic, normally so quick to give us their views even when they barely know what they’re talking about, have been strangely silent. Why is that? Women are risking their lives in Iran to win the most basic of rights and freedoms. Surely they’re deserving of the most vocal support …

A two-minute must watch on life.

Here are just 5 things that happened in the UK this week: -we discovered police in our second city, Birmingham, are doing the bidding of Islamist extremists while scapegoating Jews who were targeted for Muslim violence -we learn child rapists & criminals have been allowed to become police officers partly because of woke DEI “diversity” recruitment drives -the United Arab Emirates is so concerned about the risk of Islamist radicalisation in the UK they have just restricted support for UAE students to study at UK universities -supposedly neutral civil servants told journalists they will either quit their job or work to block policies if the British people dare to elect a Reform government that actually wants to tackle much of this by slashing immigration, ending DEI & banning Muslim Brotherhood -and the Labour government is so scared of the British people and open debate it is moving to both postpone local elections in areas where Reform is forecast to surge and ban Elon Musk’s X platform All these things happened. In just a few days. We are quite obviously destroying our country.

Lesson for Britain. Whether we like it or not, the rest of the world’s obsession with climate change is fading – and with it fades any realistic prospect of artificially pricing fossil fuels out of the energy market through carbon taxes. The race to dominate the artificial intelligence industry, with its massive demands for electricity, is being fuelled not by windmills but by gas in America and coal in China. Instead of buying exorbitantly expensive liquefied gas from America and Qatar, Britain must tap some of our own, rich, reserves of shale gas under Lincolnshire and Lancashire. Rather than buying oil produced in the North Sea by Norwegians, we need to drill for oil in our own sector of that same sea. But thanks to the exorbitant cost of wind and solar energy, our industrial electricity prices are four times those of America. 33 cents/KWh vs 8 cents. This, plus the crackdown on gas boilers, petrol cars, holidays and beef are not just a drag on our living standards, they are lacerations of economic self-harm. The green dogma is destroying our competitiveness, killing our steel, car, chemical and oil industries and excluding us from the race for an AI industry. As Venezuela reminds us, the world economy relies on fossil fuels now, and probably well into the future. It’s a lesson we can’t afford to ignore.

The CEO of Substack has called the Online Safety Act bad for free speech. It’s increasingly clear that the Act is not what it originally said on the tin. It is far more expansive — and more sinister. Chris Best offers a stark warning: “If this model spreads, it won’t just block content for children. It will determine whether adults can read, write, and argue freely without first submitting to surveillance.” Read more below 👇

Hertz have the most uncompelling "upgrade" options... Is there a word for an algorithmic blooper like this?

A rare sentence that makes one laugh out loud and feel despondent all at once. From @SamuelAlbanie’s great substack: samuelalbanie.substack.com/p/reflections-…

If we lose to China in biotech, the proximal, nucleating cause, will be the failure of our regulatory apparatus to respond with a more decentralized, IRB and Investigator-driven, fast path to human proof of concept, without massive manufacturing burden. Fix it.

"You have committed us to a lifetime of pain."

I've signed. So should you petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7511…