Tories Abandon Net Zero
March 18, 2025 11:25 am 65 CommentsThe Conservative Party has abandoned the "impossible" Net Zero 2050 target in a major U-turn, overturning a decades long cross-party consensus on tackling the 'climate emergency'.
The Conservative Party has abandoned the "impossible" Net Zero 2050 target in a major U-turn, overturning a decades long cross-party consensus on tackling the 'climate emergency'.
Benefits are being claimed by over one million foreign nationals, costing over £7.5 billion a year, according to an analysis of Government figures, prompting calls for an overhaul of eligibility rules.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
Have we finally reached peak woke? Have we developed a vaccine to the woke mind virus? Like a dying religion, it's certainly in retreat. But some disciples of Wokus Dei are still clinging on.
A Pakistani man who was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman and lived in Britain illegally for 11 years was allowed to stay after he claimed he was gay, despite offering no evidence.
Reform UK would be on course to win in May’s local elections – except Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has axed key votes. "They're terrified of us. The whole system is rotten," the party said.
Keir Starmer is set to relax a planned 2030 ban on hybrid cars amid warnings that electric vehicle sales requirements are threatening the viability of the UK car industry.
Downing Street has contradicted Rachel Reeves with an insistence that Donald Trump is not responsible for the UK economy's dire straits, despite the Chancellor earlier indicating the US President was to blame.
Super-woke Snow White star Rachel Zegler is "out of control" and Disney "doesn't know what to do with her" ahead of the $270 million movie's release, an insider has revealed.
Back in March 2020 Toby was among a depressingly select group of journalists who opposed the lockdowns. The other side included his now Spectator Editor Michael Gove, who has let him write about it in this week's magazine.
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