“British car industry is approaching the end of the road” – High costs, restricted access to the EU, and the forced shift to electric vehicles are combining to push mass-market UK car manufacturing towards collapse, notes the Times.
“Khan prepares to ban log burners in clean air clampdown” – Sadiq Khan is pushing to outlaw wood stoves in private homes across the capital by introducing area-specific bans through new zero-emission zones, reports the Telegraph.
“Burnham ‘running scared’ of the Greens as he delays drilling approval” – The Prime Minister is set to postpone approving drilling of the North Sea’s Jackdaw oil field until after the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, in a move critics say reveals his fear of Green competition, according to the Mail.
“Green leader Polanski to take on Labour for Keir Starmer’s former seat” – Zack Polanski has been unveiled as the Green Party’s candidate for the October 8th Holborn and St Pancras by-election after local members selected the populist leader to challenge Labour on its own ground, says the Mail.
“Zack Polanski blames council for being listed to vote under two names” – The Green Party leader was registered to vote as David Paulden when he last ran for Parliament, and appeared under both names in 2020 and 2021, with Polanski attributing the anomaly to a council error, notes the Mail.
“Lammy: my seat is at risk from Green-voting hipsters” – David Lammy has admitted that Labour can no longer take his Tottenham constituency for granted amid a surge in Green support, reports the Telegraph.
“Women ‘quit Greens over extraordinary instances of misogyny’” – A motion submitted for the Greens’ autumn conference makes explosive allegations that the party’s leadership has minimised “extraordinary instances of misogyny”, according to the Mail.
From the Climate Skeptic today:
“The Climate Skeptic Podcast | Episode 61” – On this week’s episode of the Climate Sceptic podcast, meteorologist and statistician William M. Briggs takes a closer look at Britain’s heatwaves and the claims being made about them, from temperature records and ‘excess deaths’ to climate models, statistics and the assumptions behind them.