"The idea that Net Zero can be achieved by any means short of a command economy combined with a drastic decline in standards of living is a blatant falsehood," says Cambridge's Professor Michael Kelly. And for what?
If electric cars and heat pumps were improvements on current technology there'd be no need for coercion. It's time for the Government to admit they are simply not up to the job, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
Guy de la Bédoyère wonders at the BBC's tremendously popular The Black and White Minstrel Show, that was still being staged as late as 1989, but about which the corporation is now unsurprisingly ashamed.
Hot summers, long droughts, warm winters, violent storms, even a hurricane – the 1600s were no stranger to extreme weather. The solution proposed at the time was self-denial. Sound familiar?
Following the conviction of journalist Peter Wilby on child pornography offences, Guy de la Bédoyère recalls the time as a 14 year-old he was sexually assaulted by BBC broadcaster Derek Cooper on a sleeper train.
Historian Guy de la Bédoyère has written a brilliant essay for the Daily Sceptic about the dizzying pace of change in the 21st Century and why it leaves many older people feeling frustrated and dispirited.
Guy de la Bédoyère in the Daily Sceptic says the Government is having a laugh if it expects him to pay £40,000 on making his house more energy efficient, including sticking a wind turbine on his roof.
The Government's response to the pandemic was to cast aside all restraint on untrammelled power and plunge the country into authoritarianism. We pulled back from the brink, says Guy de la Bédoyère, but only just.
Guy de la Bédoyère has lost count of the number of times he’s been asked where’s he’s originally from, in spite of being as British as they come. But he would never dream of taking offence.
Historian Guy de la Bédoyère thinks it’s almost inevitable that the increasingly unhinged eco protestors will split into violent and non-violent factions, with the former spawning a new generation of terrorists.
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