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Grid Griddled?
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2026-10-10
If Trump can solve the diesel shortage, can he solve the fading reliability of our electrical supply?
Why is it imperilled? Are we just scare-mongering? Heaven knows we have had enough scare-mongering in recent years.
But if as we must we give credence to our government's obsession of "saving the planet" heedless of the costs and engineering implications, then Ed Miliband's tenure as Energy Tsar will have done more than enough damage to the reliability of our power supplies already, and who knows what further idiocy his replacement has in store for us?
"Each machine that disconnects hands its load to whatever is left. If the survivors are near their limits, they trip too"
Just in case we don't understand exactly why the grid is imperilled, Richard Lyon writing for the Daily Sceptic explains the technicalities in terms that we can all understand.
Trump and Putin to End Diesel Shortages?
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2026-10-10
The world runs on diesel.
A global shortage of diesel would be catastrophic in our current centralised world where distribution is key to almost everything.
No diesel, no Amazon deliveries!
No deliveries to supermarkets and corner shops alike.
It's unthinkable.
The Vanishing Human
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2026-10-09
A Midwestern Doctor indulges us with a reasonably comprehensive explanation of where he believes we lost the plot of humanity.
It's long, it's thought-provoking (especially so for the more "mature" amongst us who remember what life used to be like in our misspent youth) and it's a pointed deconstruction of exactly how the modern world has in effect continuously dehumanised the life that we once lived, to the point where it's now at least theoretically possible to meet our every need without requiring any human contact at all. We can do almost anything from our phones ...
So who needs human society any more?
Is that another reason why the birth rate is plunging?
And BTW, what are we really here for?
Is There Any Human Condition that Cannot be Medicalised?
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2026-10-09
Science is a generic term that can be applied to almost any field.
So we are talking here about the science of marketing. A science that seems to have been applied with wanton abandon by the medical industry.
Have all the common foibles of growing up ever been so exploited?
It's enough to give "science" a bad name.
Two Discussions on What it Is to be English
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2026-10-09
In multicultural Britain, what it means to be English, British, Scottish, or Welsh (or anything else) is up for interpretation.
As a native Englishman with a native patronymic surname, I am conflicted as to neither my nationality nor my ethnicity nor my cultural background, so the argument can rage around me and I look on somewhat bemusedly as various people take on sundry contradictory positions by arguing from different perspectives.
We have over centuries (or so our historians tell us) been invaded by or otherwise welcomed in people from overseas who made their home here, and as there were probably very very few people here during the last ice age, it's a racing certainty that we nearly all came from overseas at some time in the past - so it's really question of how long ago did our ancestors arrive?
But not just that. That will probably determine our ethnicity (predominantly white Caucasian) but not our nationality ("Passport please!") nor cultural background, and these can all be different. So English ethnicity may differ from British nationality and likewise from cultural background (especially if we were brought up in some far-flung outpost of Empire).
We just need to define which noun it is to which we are applying the adjective "English". Is that so hard to agree on?!
The primary source of conflict here is cultural backgrounds that are incompatible rather than just different. Plenty of people of different cultural backgrounds have come here and live in harmony with everybody because they like it here and neither want nor need to upset the established population. It's much more profitable for all concerned to work together to achieve matters of common concern than it is to insist that their differences are more important than ours.
Still, it has to be noted that there is, now obviously, a ruling class that seeks to "divide and rule" - to magnify our differences so that we spend our time arguing about those differences rather than holding our ruling class to account for their misrule.
And if we don't have such significant differences already, then they are not above inventing some ... hence Left vs Right, Communist vs Fascist, plucky Ukrainians vs dastardly Russians, Climate Catastrophe, Fake Pandemics, etc.
(You may note some more 'divide and rule' tactics in the linked video ... )
So for balance we present two contrasting arguments about what to do - please follow the links above to check them out.
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