Electric vehicles may seem like the green solution, but Sallust reveals how their thirst for lithium is turning Chile's salt flats into a dusty mess.| The Daily Sceptic
The Telegraph has published an exposé of the privations to which young people are subjected today, including having to get a taxi to the station. Sallust is sure this will resonate with people born in the 1950s.| The Daily Sceptic
Economic collapse is now inevitable, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph, and he identifies June 27th 2025 as the Ground Zero Day when the future became set in stone.| The Daily Sceptic
Liverpool University has asked its full-time support staff to come into the office for three days a week instead of two. Needless to say, their trade union is up in arms about this and 300 of its members are set to strike.| The Daily Sceptic
Is this the last chance to save Britain? Lord Frost thinks so, as he worries the country's severance from its past glories may be terminal. But Sallust isn't so sure the past was all it's cracked up to be.| The Daily Sceptic
EVs suffer more breakdowns than other types of car and are the least likely to be fixed at the roadside, new research shows. Cost, range, reliability – EVs are worse on every metric, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.| The Daily Sceptic
The Telegraph has published an interview with a 32 year-old scientist called Tim Gregory who argues that decarbonisation needs a total rethink. Only nuclear could achieve it, he says – anything else is wishful thinking.| The Daily Sceptic
Anyone who doubts that we live in a special time, when the holy walk among us to remind us of our sins, will surely have their cynicism laid to rest by the appearance of a new portrait of the naturalist Chris Packham.| The Daily Sceptic
The quango behind the mad and dangerous plan to dim the Sun has a budget of £800 million of taxpayer money to blow on speculative projects – and a CEO on £450k. What an extraordinary misuse of public money.| The Daily Sceptic
Reform repainted the political landscape on Friday, but by the evening the BBC had already replaced the story at the top of the headlines with something about Harry moaning. Will the BBC ever get its priorities right?| The Daily Sceptic