Here is my new paper for the Great British Business Council on the importance of oil, gas and coal to the UK economy. The UK’s industrial decline is not inevitable, but the result of decades of deliberate policy choices that have undermined domestic energy production and driven manufacturing offshore. Lowering UK employment and tax revenues, while increasing the UK trade deficit. The paper also includes a plan to reverse this. gbbc.uk/uk-deindustrialisati…

Our researchers have been trawling through the Opinium archives on the website, and have found an additional four occasions where they surveyed the British public, and they were told we wanted to stay out of the EU. Updated chart now below. Tell them again.

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A lot of mush from Andy Burnham in his Times interview just out. E.g.: "the tax decisions in the 2024 manifesto have been … problematic in terms of employers’ national insurance". So the real problem was the commitments not to raise taxes in the manifesto rather than the job-killing NI tax hike itself? He says he wants to reduce the welfare bill but rejects "just crude cuts, short-term cuts that then create a backlash and create more political turbulence". Instead he wants to "do things that will reduce the benefits bill, moving towards a more preventative state that makes the right investments to support people into work.” In other words no actual cuts to welfare but a lot of sound-good waffle.

This is eye-opening. Even the weak Euro didn’t prevent the self-inflicted collapse of German industry. All the bad policies will one day be seen as the largest self-sabotage of an advanced economy ever. If the left can ruin Germany, imagine what they could do to your country.

Germany spent decades building the world’s industrial powerhouse. Now it’s testing how fast you can dismantle one. High energy costs, overregulation, overtaxation and investment flight aren’t accidents, they’re policy outcomes. What needs to happen for Germany to thrive again?

Net Zero is entering a new phase. After giving Britain the highest industrial energy prices in the developed world, the same policy machine is now coming for food. The Seventh Carbon Budget means lower meat and dairy consumption, fewer livestock and changes to land use.

This really worries me A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…

This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more. This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead. Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards. What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning. Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to. I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.

Always remember Ed Miliband has 2 kitchens but he doesnt want you to have underfloor heating. 🙄

Makerfield by-election poll from OpiniumResearch. A Burnham win could see Ed Miliband become Chancellor. He’ll fund Green lunacy over defence or education. Vote Reform! LAB: 46% ( 1) REF: 41% ( 9) RSB: 7% (NEW) CON: 2.5% (-8) LDEM: <2% (-5) GRN: <2% (-2) Changes with GE2024.

Ed Miliband will ban the sale of underfloor heating systems deemed to be using too much power in his latest Net Zero drive as he also sets his sights on electric towel rails, gas fires and storage heaters. dailysceptic.org/2026/06/13/…

Fifty years from now, academic treatises will be written about how the world was taken in by the climate madness of a pseudo-scientific doomsday cult, writes Princeton physicist Professor William Happer. dailysceptic.org/2026/06/13/…

I live in a country where the energy secretary and his climate committee commissars are promising to ban or severely restrict: Petrol and diesel cars Oil and gas drilling Gas heating Underfloor heating Tumble driers Fertiliser Air travel and Cattle They plan to forbid their way to prosperity. Please somebody explain to them why that won't work.

The Channel tunnel has been hit by a 200% increase in UK rates, so it is cancelling plans to invest in better freight services. I thought the government wanted us to be closer to the EU and do more trade with them. Once again its self harming tax policies get in the way.

Remember this … Labour doesn’t have enough money for defence But has spent £20 BILLION of taxpayers money on foreign aid of which £5-6 BILLION is for climate aid projects. Happy to pretend to save the planet and happy to pretend British citizens are defended 🤡

‼️ Honestly *sigh* People are moaning about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire and saying he should spend his money solving the world’s problems…. Let’s look at that. The UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals have required global investment of $5–7 trillion EVERY YEAR since 2015, about $75–105 trillion over the 15 year programme. Brilliant! … and has our money solved anything? Er no…. Many regions have become even poorer, hungrier and more desperate. Debt has increased (including ours) food insecurity is widespread, and millions of people are still trapped in poverty. Oh. So instead of bitching about where Elon might spend his money, perhaps start asking where our money has been spent! Because it bloody hasn’t solved anything! And, if $75–105 trillion hasn’t solved the world’s problems, maybe the problem isn’t Elon Musk. And maybe we are being fucked over. Seriously … you should read my book 💣

Mad Ed isn’t making this up as he goes along you know, neither are the EU, Australia or Canada etc .. If you’re wondering where Mad Ed’s getting is heating, appliance banning and energy policies from … look no further than the UN and their PR arm the WEF buildings and energy papers. All laid out nicely in these, all supporting the Agenda 2030 Sustainable development goals (that you didn’t vote for) UNFCCC BEERI UNEP Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction WEF Decarbonising Heating You might agree with it all and that’s fine! The point is that you were never asked have a read of my book … just saying 🔥

Read Brexit: The Facts strike Back. Explains why the BBC, BoE and NBER are wrong on Brexit. amzn.eu/d/0iB8LMRY