Are the cover-ups and corruption at the power station that’s Britain’s biggest green hoax – and burns 27 million trees a year – finally about to be exposed?

Matt Ridley

This appeared in The Daily Mail; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14322465/power-station-green-energy-corruption-burn-matt-ridley.html   From 25,000 feet on a clear day, you can see the biggest wood-fired kettle in the world belching steam, as I did the other day on a flight to Newcastle. Called Drax power station, it lies between Selby and Goole in North Yorkshire and burns the equivalent […]

Britain’s net zero, green energy madness is set for a head-on collision with reality

Matt Ridley

Appeared in the Telegraph; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/23/green-energy-net-zero-renewables-uk-miliband/   Britain’s net zero plan is to nearly double the demand for electricity (for heating, transport and artificial intelligence) and switch off most of the supply (gas and much of nuclear). If you think that does not add up, you are right. Perhaps Ed (Miliwatt-hour) Miliband is deliberately showing Keir […]

Trump takes on the climatecrats

Matt Ridley

Appeared in Spiked; https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/21/trump-takes-on-the-climatecrats/ No one should mourn America’s withdrawal from the ridiculous Paris Agreement. Donald Trump has pulled America out of the 2015 Paris Climate Accord for the second time. Bizarrely, like some dodgy insurance scam, the rules of the climatocracy say it takes a year to withdraw, so not till next winter America will […]

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Why has Biden pardoned Anthony Fauci?

Matt Ridley

Appeared in the Spectator; https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-has-biden-pardoned-anthony-fauci/   Joe Biden left it until the last minute to issue a pre-emptive pardon of Anthony Fauci for any offence committed since 2014 in his work on “the White House Coronavirus Task Force or the White House Covid-19 Response Team, or as Chief Medical Advisor to the President”. Yet surely […]

How I fell foul of YouTube’s fact-checkers

Matt Ridley

Appeared in the Spectator; https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-i-fell-foul-of-youtubes-fact-checkers/ The day after Mark Zuckerberg said fact checkers “have destroyed more trust than they have created” I experienced why he has a point. I had done an interview with an evolutionary psychology podcaster, Paula Wright, about the origin of Covid. In it I said something that caused the entire interview […]

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Move over, Ozempic: Why an astonishing new class of weight-loss drugs will soon end obesity FOR EVER – and here are the other surprising illnesses they could treat

Matt Ridley

This appeared in The Daily Mail; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14239533/MATT-RIDLEY-Ozempic-weight-loss-drugs-end-obesity-illnesses.html Imagine if you could eat your fill on Christmas day then dial down your appetite for January. Good news: such a prospect may be within sight. Weight-loss drugs are getting better and achieving results where decades of hectoring and dieting have failed – in yet another miracle of […]

Wuhan wager: the $400 ‘bio bet’ that predicted the pandemic

Matt Ridley

This appeared in the Spectator; https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/wuhan-wager-the-400-bio-bet-that-predicted-the-pandemic/ At the end of the year, one of the world’s most renowned scientists will send $400 to a charity to settle a wager with another of the world’s most renowned scientists. We don’t yet know which will win, but it is likely to be the wrong one, in my […]

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The explosive truth about the origin of Covid-19 may finally be about to emerge

Matt Ridley

Appeared in The Telegraph; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/12/06/explosive-truth-about-origin-covid-19-emerge/ Trump’s new lieutenants, Jay Bhattacharya and John Ratcliffe, are convinced that a lab leak was probably the source It is now five years since we woke to the news of a new outbreak of infectious pneumonia in China. Retelling the story of those early days of the Covid pandemic helps […]

Labour’s car industry wrecking policy might cut global emissions by 0.016%. How the Chinese must be laughing at us!

Matt Ridley

This appeared in The Daily Mail; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14134949/MATT-RIDLEY-Labours-car-industry-wrecking-policy-Chinese-laughing.html   Unlucky Luton. The miserable news that Stellantis, the owner of Vauxhall, is considering laying off 1,100 workers from its van manufacturing plant is a hammer blow to the town. What makes it all the more painful is the knowledge that the damage is entirely avoidable and the […]

The ‘experts’ who enabled RFK Jr’s rise

Matt Ridley

Appeared in the Spectator; https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-experts-who-enabled-rfk-jrs-rise/ The nomination of husky-voiced, musclebound Robert F. Kennedy Jr – who once dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park – to be secretary of health and human services in the Trump administration has horrified ‘experts’, according to the BBC. A left-wing Democrat who admires the late Venezuelan Marxist dictator […]

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