“Millions excluded from electric car home-charging discount” – Millions of drivers without off-street parking are locked out of a permitted development rights perk for home EV chargers, forcing them to seek planning permission for a pavement cable or rely on more expensive alternatives, reveals the Telegraph.
“Burnham preparing to raise Chinese EV tariffs to get closer to EU” – The Prime Minister is expected to match the EU’s electric car levy on Chinese vehicles in a bid to bring Britain into closer alignment with the bloc, reports the Telegraph.
“Jeremy Clarkson’s choir: ‘We need to stop our land being turned into solar farms’” – After winning Britain’s Got Talent, the Hawkstone Farmers’ Choir is taking its message about the realities of life on the land on tour, says the Telegraph.
“The ‘historic low’ UK harvest 2026” – Climate Scepticism challenges the claim that Britain’s poor 2026 harvest is symptomatic of a “climate doom loop”, arguing the narrative does not withstand scrutiny.
From the Climate Skeptic today:
“Eight Million Properties at Risk of Flooding by Mid-Century, Claims Environment Agency” – Eight million properties in Britain are at risk of flooding by mid-century due to climate change, the Environment Agency has claimed. That’s a quarter of the total. It’s completely preposterous, says Paul Homewood.