The Devil Wears Prada
June 1, 2024 5:00 pm 23 CommentsChris Packham has been spotted wearing a £520 Prada bucket hat. Seems the Devil does wear Prada after all, says Sallust.
Author Archives for Sallust
Hackney May Have a Desirable Postcode but You Can Still Be Mugged There at Knife-Point
May 31, 2024 7:00 am 24 CommentsRegardless of how much your house is worth or where you live, you can still fall victim to a thug wielding a zombie knife. How delightfully egalitarian Britain has become, says Sallust.
BBC Blames Singapore Turbulence Incident on Climate Change
May 21, 2024 7:30 pm 35 CommentsThe BBC has blamed the Singapore airline turbulence incident – in which one man died of a heart attack and at least 30 were injured – on, wait for it, climate change.
BBC Comes to Terms With Collapsing EV Market
May 17, 2024 1:15 pm 33 CommentsThe BBC is confronting the fact that the EV market is collapsing. Naturally, this is starting to cause a panic because all those pesky climate targets enshrined in law aren’t going to be met.
Mother Loses Fight Over Daughter’s Gender Treatment
May 12, 2024 1:00 pm 6 CommentsA mother has lost a legal tussle with her ex-husband over their daughter's gender transition. Give it twenty years and the girl will likely be taking one of her parents to court herself, says Sallust.
Climate Alarm Has Become a Dangerous Ideology, Says Cambridge Academic
May 2, 2024 11:14 am 18 CommentsClimate alarm has become a dangerous ideology, says Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography at Cambridge University. An obsessive and outsize concern with it is harming human well-being and development.
EV Battery Timebomb
May 1, 2024 1:09 pm 27 CommentsMany EVs will lose up to 12% of their charge capacity by six years and some may lose even more, research has found, leading one expert to warn customers to be wary of buying a used electric car beyond eight years.
No Gas and Air For Women Giving Birth in the Eco-Utopian Future
April 28, 2024 5:00 pm 28 CommentsA climate activist told his pregnant wife she can't have gas and air during labour because of the impact on the environment. Is this what the activists hope the eco-utopian future will hold? wonders Sallust.
“It was Like the Stasi had Come to my Door”
April 21, 2024 11:07 am 22 CommentsAn Exeter University student was investigated, threatened with expulsion and placed on probation after his next door neighbour overheard him saying on the phone: "Veganism is wrong." Yes, you read that correctly.
Deadly African Heatwave “Impossible” Without Climate Change, Claims BBC
April 18, 2024 11:00 am 7 CommentsA deadly heatwave in West Africa was "impossible" without climate change, claims the BBC. But read the fine print and you learn that El Niño was the more likely culprit.