CSM EDITORIAL One might be forgiven for thinking that His Majesty’s Government has taken leave of its senses–or at the very least, been spending too much time in the rarefied air of Petty France’s lesser think tanks. News reaches us that £50 million of public money is to be lavished upon experiments to dim the sun, all in the noble pursuit of cooling the planet. A … Continue reading Solar Schizophrenia
BY NIALL McCRAE Net Zero not only means no petrol, but also no pets. The authorities haven’t quite told us this yet, but the writing is on the wall. As more councils sign on to the UK100 scheme to accelerate the quest for decarbonisation, expect to hear more about the environmental damage caused by Fido and Tiddles. Dear Readers, this is not a joke. Take, … Continue reading They’re Coming for Your Cats and Dogs
BY ALEX STORY We live into the epoch of Utopia. We have left reality firmly behind. Seeking Utopia in this life, as the good book says, is to will “Hell on earth”. Nothing demonstrates our descent into extremist folly more than Net Zero. Few believe but many submit to this craze for fear of denunciation. The concept is hazy, which is the basis of its … Continue reading Belief or Submission?
BY RORY CRANSTOUN In an episode of Chopper’s Politics, I was unfortunately reminded of Boris Johnson’s plan to usher in a so-called ‘green industrial revolution’ in Britain. Obviously another crypto-globalist fever dream poorly wrapped in Conservative paper, the Tory drive towards ‘net-zero’ is nothing more than another example of the all familiar promises to greenify our society. ‘Green’ public transport. ‘Green’ electric vehicles. ‘Green’ buildings; whatever … Continue reading The Scouring of the Shires
BY JIM WEBSTER Sri Lanka has been the victim of a government organised experiment. In April 2021, the government imposed a nationwide ban on the importation and use of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides and ordered the country’s two million farmers to go organic. It may well be that this wasn’t so much ideological as a desperate attempt to keep money in the country. It backfired. … Continue reading Let’s Not Be Sri Lanka
BY JIM WEBSTER The problem with being rural is that government and a major part of the population aren’t rural and in some cases haven’t got a clue what is going on. To put this in perspective somebody mentioned to me four issues those in authority hold against rural dwellers. They feel that these things are standing in the way of us reaching net zero. … Continue reading Farming & Government Net Zero
