Gaza has been hit by a ferocious snowstorm.

People are huddled together in ruined buildings, desparately clinging to life.

The Israelis are blocking vital supplies, such as snow ploughs, snow shoes, thermal underwear and ski masks.

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How's that transition coming along?

A violent transgender inmate in Indiana is suing prison officials for "cruel and unusual punishment" after being denied "gender affirming" surgeries.

Gregory "Starlene" Taylor is serving a 20-year sentence for the brutal assault of his girlfriend.

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Get a load of Yasmin, 👇🏼 here, indulging in her little imperial fever-dream.

Oh pity the poor terrorists! Weep over their agitprop! Deny them all agency, poor dear orientals! When O when will the white men save them from their doom?

Great summary of Britain Unbound polling in Makerfield

"If we think we can come up with good ideas and hand them over to other parties, we are abandoning our duty"

Watch my full speech to the SDP conference in Scarborough by following the link below ⬇️

Magic Grandpa might want to be a little more discerning on the AI Slop for Hamas, he risks bringing his reputation for critical thinking into doubt.

For more than three years, much of the pro-Palestinian movement in the West has refused to say a word about Hamas’s abuses against Palestinians in Gaza: killings, shootings in the legs, broken limbs, extortionate taxes, kidnappings, and a reign of fear.

Those abuses were met with silence. Worse, anyone who dared to speak out was smeared, threatened, and intimidated. Too often, it worked. People went quiet.

Now, as rainstorms batter Gaza, displaced families are suffering without adequate tents or shelter, and with no relief in sight. Israel bears responsibility for the devastation in Gaza. But Hamas bears responsibility too, and it wants the world to look only at Israel.

Hamas is detaining ministry engineers and others trying to help displaced families, then forcing them to sign pledges that they will work only through Hamas. The goal is simple: to control who helps, how they help, and who gets the credit, tightening its grip on people’s lives even as they drown in mud and floodwater.

More than three years of devastation have passed, and Hamas has yet to acknowledge its role or apologize for what Palestinians have endured. Instead, it keeps terrorizing people, exploiting their suffering, and crushing anyone who dares to challenge its rule.

Even Palestinians in Gaza are not spared these attacks and labels. When people inside Gaza speak out about how Hamas is deepening and exploiting their suffering, they are attacked, branded traitors and collaborators, and put in danger. Those leading the attacks are the same voices who stayed silent about Hamas’s crimes. They claim to stand with Palestinians, yet they turn on the very Palestinians who live under Hamas and tell the truth about it.

An MP who talks sense. Hark his words.

Thanks Alan! And thanks to everyone else who attended. A really good discussion about the future of the SDP

Several things the BBC has done in recent years go well beyond appalling into something much more akin to evil.

Please, leave this little girl alone. Stop casting her in propaganda videos over and over. She deserves a normal life;

this is child exploitation for propaganda purposes.

The “art world” is FINISHED.

"Power giveaway to EU fails the Makerfield Test"

We have now posted more details of our exclusive polling on our website 👇

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The grid is looking precarious this winter. Grid balancing costs keep spiking off the charts. I've seen all manner of creative excuses this morning but this is a crisis tewnty years in the making. It was around 2008, or thereabouts, when I joined a large energy firm to do a b, only made interesting by way of my co-worker being one of the lead programmers on the energy trading desk who explained to me in great detail how the grid works.

I was already dimly aware of the overall energy strategy. The idea was that we were going to blow up our coal power stations and build windmills instead, on the presumption that "the wind is always blowing somewhere" and that the easter bunny would intervene in the event there was no wind.

But we knew about dunkelflaute even back then. They knew very will the wind is not always blowing somewhere. But this was a manageable problem because there wasn't all that much wind capacity to offset. You could disguise the problem with importing energy through interconnectors. It was a relatively small problem that could be disguised.

But then we did start blowing up our coal power stations, letting our nuclear power age out, and didn't bother to replace our baseload capacity. We instead built windmills. Rather a lot of them. We built them in far away places, requiring long transmission lines for intermittent power that the grid struggles to assimilate.

Making up the shortfall always depended on gas because most large energy plants can't be ramped up and down at a moment's notice. The problems started when shortfalls were measured in gigawatts. The more windmills you added, the greater the instability.

This was known in 2008 and the problem was never acknowledged. Even back then, realists were saying this only had one destination; rolling blackouts. It's been looking hairy since 2022, and the situation has only worsened, exacerbated by a deliberate decision to run down and close our gas storage facilities, making us more reliant on the day-to-day gas market - which is notoriously volatile, especially when wars break out in our vicinity.

Some renewable energy enthusiasts did acknowledge this might be a problem, but they said it would be a small problem, and that by now, there would be millions of electric cars plugged into the grid that grid operators could use to even out shortages of wind. On paper that was a good idea, if only to even out the odd hour of wind loss. The strategy, though did not address the prospect of days and weeks of cold conditions with no wind, or the fact that nobody wants an EV.

As more wind generation was added to the grid, this problem became bigger and bigger, with no real thought as to what was going to keep the lights on in a crisis. We also banned extraction of our own fossil fuel reserves meaning that we are now wholly dependent on gas imports from wherever we can get it.

Now at this point, if you're not politically attuned, you're probably thinking this is a seriously dumb policy that's so dumb that our politicians couldn't possibly have been this retarded, so there must be some other explanation. If only that were true.

The problem is that a number of subsidies and market incentives were put in place so that the energy sector would concentrate on building windmills. There was (and is) big money involved, so there is a very influential wind energy lobby that misdirects the national conversation and influences our MPs. They are easily bamboozled and incredibly gullible.

Consequently, realists lost the argument. The warnings we've seen in recent years from the indefatigable @KathrynPorter26 (et al) are just the latest generation of energy wonks to notice that making your power grid weather dependent is a shit idea.

Anyone raising the alarm is immediately accused of being a "climate denier" despite warnings from them that there are certain facets of the climate that we ought to pay more attention to. Namely that Europe is prone to protracted periods without wind and sunshine. While our Liberian energy minister can be forgiven for not knowing this, her many predecessors cannot.

So we're now in a position where we have gigawatts of windmills installed, doing absolutely bugger all, at times when people are known to need heating and lighting. So now we're scrambling for gas from whatever we can find it, regardless of the cost - and making "resilience" plans for the near future when the grid stops working completely (which they will blame on Russian hackers).

This is made all the more precarious because the European power stations we import from have more demand than usual, not least because of the dry conditions this summer, meaning hydro is less available, and we're feeding cruise missiles into a regional conflict that is currently demolishing European grid infrastructure.

This would be a good time to fire up our redundant coal burning stations, but the last Tory government demolished them. This is a situation that energy analysts are describing as "bad".

Of course, that is a matter of perspective. Should there be a cold spell where the grid trips out for weeks, or we're reduced to energy rationing, many of you will simply die, thereby reducing demands on the grid and other public services. This is a necessary sacrifice toward our green energy future which, after all, is the priority here. We no longer cling to the archaic idea that the grid should serve the needs of the economy. It is we who must change!

£300,000,000,000 would’ve built ~40 nuclear power plants*. Producing 1.4GW per reactor or ~112GW total of consistent & reliable energy.

Currently wind & solar are producing 5.43GW - a difference of one hundred & six Gigawatts.

For the same cost.

In subsidies alone.

Utter dereliction of duty for a moral crusade.

* Assumed RoK build cost of ~£3.7bn/reactor

“It’s shocked every lawyer who’s seen it.”

Dan Neidle explains the injunction granted to Russell Brand and his then-girlfriend Jemima Goldsmith against a woman who tried to make allegations against him.

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REVEALED: The scandal surrounding Gaza's failed winterization efforts lays bare a grim reality: Hamas obstructed attempts to protect Palestinian civilians before the devastating winter storms that flooded tens of thousands of tents.

Palestinian Authority employees inside Gaza essionals from the Ministries of Public Works and Relief Affairs were intimidated, summoned, and coerced by Hamas into signing pledges not to undertake humanitarian projects without the group's approval. According to their accounts, those who defied Hamas risked so-called "field justice," including beatings and worse.

Several officials, including Najla Hammad, Ihab Al-Bahtiti, Khaled Abu Safiya, Wiam Aboul-Nasr, Dr. Adnan Hamouda, and Ahmed Abu Zaiter, have publicly stated that efforts to build more durable fiberglass housing and improve conditions for displaced civilians were blocked.

Another example was a proposal that was put forward to demolish several heavily damaged towers which were at risk of collapse from rainwater after extensive bombardment. According to those involved, Hamas blocked the removal of the “Bank of Palestine Tower” in Gaza City's Rimal neighborhood, reportedly arguing that it would "collapse from the rain anyway." The terrorist group did not show any concern for the civilian lives that would be lost when the tower eventually collapses on its own, because it wants dead Palestinians and news of tragedy to keep Gaza in the news cycle and to gain global sympathy, hoping for more incoming resources and donations for the Strip’s humanitarian and reconstruction needs that it could siphon.

Additionally, Hamas has also been accused of obstructing construction projects intended to create safer communities for displaced Gazans in southern Gaza, prioritizing political control over humanitarian relief.

This is a reminder that Gaza's suffering is not only a consequence of war. It is also the result of a fascist and ruthless governing power that repeatedly places its own interests above the welfare of the people it claims to represent. The same terror group that helped bring catastrophe upon Gaza continues to obstruct efforts to mitigate its consequences.

As floodwaters sweep through displacement camps and families endure another winter in misery, the question is unavoidable: how many Palestinian lives could have been spared had Hamas allowed humanitarian, housing, and reconstruction efforts to proceed unimpeded?

Handing over sovereignty to the EU clearly fails the Makerfield test. It's more clear than ever that it's our elites choosing to give power away - not responding to popular presssure or bowing down to an over-bearing Europe.
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The fake capacity load factors assumed by the British government are a huge scandal. Where's parliament's investigation into this?