British car-buyers are turning away from new vehicles in their droves and keeping their reliable old petrol models going for far longer as Labour's Net Zero war on affordable motors heats up.
Labour's promise of 1.5 million new homes is a pipe dream destined to fail, says Sallust, with no workers, no skills and no plan to back it up.
The former boss of Waitrose, Lord Price, has blamed lockdowns for annihilating the will of many Britons to go to work. Many workers are now fixated on maximising sick pay and doing as little as possible.
In the Telegraph, Jonathan Leake has written an article setting out how Ed Miliband's Net Zero energy policy is accelerating Britain's industrial decline in a way that's alarming our American allies.
Meet the woman so afraid of climate change she made her husband get the snip and refuses to have children. It's "selfish" to bring children into the world "when we don't know if it's going to exist in 100 years".
According to the calculations of Andrew English, the Telegraph's motoring correspondent, driving a Ford Mustang Mach-E is about twice as expensive as driving a Honda Civic.
Northvolt's ambitious battery dream has gone bust, says Sallust, and with it, Europe's hopes of competing with China in the EV market.
Labour's swivel-eyed Net Zero zealotry is getting more cult-like by the day, says Sallust – as two recent articles in the Daily Telegraph, one on a weird 19th century sect and one on COP29, make clear.
While the West surrenders its energy security on the altar of Net Zero, China secures 80% of the world's solar market with its coal-fired economy. This is craziness, says Sallust, and Australia is waking up.
In the Telegraph, the Secret Landlord recounts his surreal conversation with an Energy Performance Certificate assessor who tells him the best way to secure the must-have 'C' rating is to lower his ceiling by 400mm.
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