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Almost half of the world’s wealth, or $213 trillion, is held by just 1.5 percent of the global adult population.

It was in October 2010, a few months after Cameron’s dreadful coalition government had settled in, that I wrote in our predecessor blog, drawing attention to a Telegraph report telling us that “fuel poverty” had more than doubled over the previous five years.

In 2003, the number of households stricken by fuel poverty had hit a low of two million but had climbed to four million in 2007 and then to 4.5 million in 2008 – according to the then latest figures published by the then Department of Energy & Climate Change.

That put one in six households in the poverty category during 2008, a year which had seen energy bills shoot up by 45 percent, the status being defined by a household having to spend 10 percent or more of its income on paying to keep the home adequately warm.

One would have thought that, faced with such a devastating situation – where real hardship was being experienced – any rational government would have been doing its level best to reduce household energy bills. But that is not how politics work in this country any more – not in the 21st century.

Separately, therefore, I was to review a piece in the Guardian having prof Jon Gibbins, an expert in carbon capture and storage at the University of Edinburgh, squealing that “failure to impose a CCS levy on energy bills would be ‘disastrous’”.

Believe it or not, Gibbins and his cohorts wanted the government to add £4 billion to our energy bills in order to build a number of demonstration carbon capture and storage plants, in order to prove the technology.

Fast forward 14 years and we see that two things seem to have changed. The first is that the government has finessed the fuel poverty figures, introducing a new metric which ostensibly had fuel poverty driven down from 17 percent in 2008 to a mere 13 percent in 2023.

However, if the traditional measure was used, fuel poverty in 2023 was affecting 36.4 per cent of households (8.91 million), up from 27.4 percent in 2022 (6.66 million) – more than twice to 2008 figure which itself had been twice the 2003 figure.

The other thing that had changed – not entirely unrelated to the first, one suspects – was the lifting of the £4 billion CCS figure to a cool £20 billion in the 2023 budget, an outlay at the time I called “the onset of madness”.

But what now transpires – to absolutely no-one’s surprise – is that despite the huge sums being allocated to this madcap project, the chances of the technology delivering in time for the government to meet its self-imposed 2030 net-zero targets (or at all) is vanishingly small.

Read more: Net zero: A land of make-believe 

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In this week’s Spectator, I’ve written about the appointment of Becky Francis, a former Professor of Education and Social Justice, to lead the Government’s shake-up of the national curriculum. This is significant because, in addition to rewriting the national curriculum, the Government is going to force academies and free schools to teach it. I wrote a thread on X about why this is such a disaster here. Here’s how my column begins:

The appointment of Becky Francis CBE to lead the Department for Education’s shake-up of the national curriculum is typical of Labour’s plan to embed their ideology across our institutions – or rather entrench it, since the long march is almost complete.

On the face of it, Professor Francis is “unburdened by doctrine”, to use Sir Keir Starmer’s phrase about how Labour intends to govern. As former Director of the Institute of Education and current CEO of the Education Endowment Foundation, she has the outward appearance of a technocrat. But scratch the surface and, like so many Labour appointees, she emerges as a long-standing adherent of left-wing identity politics.

After earning a PhD in Women’s Studies at the University of North London (I’m not making that up), Ms. Francis went on to become Professor of Education and Social Justice at King’s College London. She was then promoted to head of the Institute of Education, UCL’s most left-wing faculty, where she launched the Centre for Sociology of Education and Equity, a research centre dedicated to advancing “equity and social justice” in schools.

For those unfamiliar with the jargon, “equity and social justice” does not mean creating a level playing field so that all children can excel, regardless of colour or creed. It means tilting the playing field so various fashionable identity groups – women, people of colour, members of the LGBT community, people with disabilities, etc. – can win at the expense of the unfashionable – men, white people, heterosexuals, the able-bodied, etc. And helping them win by any means necessary. Not the philosophy of Martin Luther King, but Malcolm X.

You can read the rest of my piece here.

I’m not the only person to ring the alarm bell about the appointment of Ms. Francis. Tim Stanley wrote about it in the Telegraph earlier this week and David James, the Deputy Head of a leading independent school, wrote about it in the Critic. It’s worth quoting from his piece to give you a flavour of Becky Francis’s politics:

You would think that in education there would be a consensus view: namely, that schools should be orderly places which allow all children to get a good education before moving on to either university or employment. You couldn’t be more wrong. The truth is that education at both primary and secondary school levels is riven with ideologues who believe that schools are places of cruelty, that rules are oppressive, and that a knowledge-rich curriculum should be abandoned in favour of less prescriptive, more creative, skills-based courses.

Read More: The Intersectional Feminist Rewriting the National Curriculum

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Candace Owens’ Powerful Message to Americans:

“Do not send your sons and daughters to fight in this planned war.

They have been planning this war for years.

Do not believe them when they say they have WMD’s.

They have been trying this strategy for years, in various… pic.twitter.com/p1A3maAFgx

— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) July 25, 2024

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“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
911 9/11 pic.twitter.com/0PLnYPmfuF

— Thomas Paine (@Thomas1774Paine) July 26, 2024

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A study published Monday documented how individuals with ‘cardiac implantable electronic devices’ such as pacemakers began to experience atrial arrhythmias after injection of the Covid or Flu vaccination.

Atrial arrhythmias (AA) are problems with the rhythm of the heartbeat, something the implanted device is supposed to correct.

“..a small but statistically significant increase in the burden of AA was noted in the 3 months post vaccination compared to the preceding 3 months after the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine (0.43 ± 9.04%, p = .028) a similar rise in AA was found following the influenza vaccine and for matched patients who did not receive the COVID-19 vaccine,” the study said in the ‘Results’ section.

Dr. Peter McCullough said on social media that he sees new cases of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (abnormal heart rhythm characterized by rapid and irregular beating of the atrial chambers of the heart) on a regular bases.

 

I routinely see in my practice new onset paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in the COVID-19 vaccinated. If you develop atrial fibrillation, ask your doctor about the role of COVID-19 vaccination and demand a quantitative antibody test against the Spike protein. Treatment with… https://t.co/18epnJ3EGV pic.twitter.com/TnpkQXCwne

— Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH® (@P_McCulloughMD) July 26, 2024

Read More: Pacemaker Patients Experience Heartbeat Irregularities Post-Covid/Flu Shot 

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President Trump greets Prime Minister Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago pic.twitter.com/UTrjCDar4h

— Margo Martin (@margommartin) July 26, 2024

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“This is my reality after the Covid19 vaccine. I went from carrying my daughter to having her help me move. I was “forced” to take it to avoid losing my job, two and a half years later… I’m still coming out of this… tomb.” pic.twitter.com/pEu87PIDWi

— “Sudden And Unexpected” (@toobaffled) July 26, 2024

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New York-based Linx Security has secured $33 million in funding to accelerate the development of its digital identity security system. Index Ventures and Cyberstarts led the round, which included contributions from Cerca Partners, Knollwood Investment Advisory and entrepreneurs Mickey Boodaei, Rakesh Loonkar, Assaf Rappaport and Yinon Costica. Crunchbase identifies the funding as a series A round.

The company underlines the significance of a robust identity security system by citing the sobering statistics from a market report on identity-related security breaches from Verizon and the Identity Defined Security Alliance. The identity security software brings together identity, security, and IT ops teams, the company says.

Linx aims to overcome the limitations of existing identity management tools by offering identity mapping, the company says. The system gives organizations control over the entire identity lifecycle by monitoring the relationships between users, their identities, and the permissions required to access company data and resources.

“Our platform empowers organizations to navigate the complexities of identity security and governance with confidence, ensuring they stay ahead of evolving threats and regulatory requirements,” says Israel Duanis, chief executive officer and co-founder of Linx Security.

To showcase the functionality of its software, Linx identified unregulated access to a client’s code repository. This involved identifying user accounts and their corresponding owners, evaluating permissions, and assessing associated risks. The software detected that a former employee still had active and unsecured access.

“Identity is the top threat vector for the modern enterprise. Identity teams under the CISO, are struggling to cope with a growing number of tasks and suffer from antiquated legacy solutions,” says Gili Raanan, founder of Cyberstarts.

Coming out of stealth mode, the team led by Israel Duanis and Niv Goldenberg (chief product officer) is already working with companies across financial services, retail, real estate, and technology.

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New guidance issued by H.M. Courts and Tribunal Service has stipulated the politically correct terms that members of the bench must use when communicating with witnesses, defendants and lawyers in courts and tribunals. The Telegraph has more.

Judges in England and Wales have been advised to avoid terms such as “asylum seekers”, “immigrant”, “gays” and “lame” in new guidance on “politically incorrect” language.

A new edition of the Equal Treatment Bench Book sets out in 350 pages how judges should communicate with witnesses, defendants and lawyers in courts and tribunals in England and Wales.

It advises that “person seeking asylum” is now preferred to “asylum seekers” as it is more humanising and warns that terms such as “immigrant”, “people seeking asylum” and “refugee” should only be used where such terms are factually correct in connection with the particular individual.

“Even then, ‘immigrant’ should be used with caution, as it can sound exclusionary, especially for a person who has lived in the UK for a long time or who has gained British nationality,” it says.

“The words ‘immigrant’ or ‘second generation immigrant’ should never be used to describe a black, Asian or ethnic minority person who was born in the UK.”

For sexual orientation, terms such as “gays/a gay” and “homosexuals/a homosexual” are ruled unacceptable. Homosexual, for example, echoes discriminatory attitudes and practices in the past, says the guidance. “Dyke or queer may be used by gay people themselves but should not be used by judges.”

Read More: Judges Told to Avoid Saying ‘Asylum Seekers’ and ‘Immigrants’

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