With polls predicting a split vote and large parts of the Tories and Labour eager to keep Reform and the Greens out of power, could we end up with the unthinkable in 2029: a Labour-Tory coalition, wonders Nick Rendell.
The Jevons Paradox – that improved efficiency drives increased consumption – neatly explains why Net Zero is an exercise in futility, says Nick Rendell. The world isn't replacing fossil fuels, it's adding to them.
What do you have to do to be remanded in custody these days? It seems to depend on who you are, says Nick Rendell. Speech criminals like Lucy Connolly are straight in the clanger. But not Peter Mandelson,
Keir Starmer may have scuppered Andy Burnham's leadership bid by blocking him from standing for Labour. But if he had the cojones, says Nick Rendell, he'd stand as an independent – and likely be PM in six months' time.
Global media were once again filled with a police killing in Minneapolis just half a mile from where George Floyd died. Yet about the huge Somali childcare scandal in the same state we hear not a peep, says Nick Rendell.
Why has the Right joined the Left in promoting idleness? For the Left it's an obsession with UBI. But for the tech bros it's all about 'hyperabundance'. Either way, idleness is always soul-destroying, says Nick Rendell.
Ofgem has been caught using the climate Armageddon 'worst case scenario' RCP8.5 as the basis for its energy planning. This is a scenario so ludicrous even the Biden administration abandoned it, says Nick Rendell.
Will Samuel Williams be charged after calling for 'Zionists' to be killed? It depends whether the law deems 'Zionists' to be a racial group, says Nick Rendell – as it did with 'migrants' in the Lucy Connolly case.
'Nudge' has a new evil twin, says Nick Rendell: 'stochastic terror'. When all else fails, the Left foments the conditions for random political violence and then sits back and waits for someone to pick off Trump or Farage.
Lucy Connolly's jail sentence versus Ricky Jones's acquittal shows not two-tier justice but two-tier laws – the system worked as intended, says Nick Rendell.
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