First: An apology if my “Not an Easter Bunny” Good Friday blog put you off your dinner. Having seen that thing, I can well understand why women and girls would not want a creature like that in their changing rooms, hospital wards, women’s refuges, prisons and other private spaces.
I don’t know if you saw a BBC report about a project we suckers are paying millions for to extract CO2 from seawater to supposedly save the planet. I was useless at chemistry. But from what little I understand seawater is to be siphoned off and treated with some kind of acid to release CO2. Then the acidic seawater will be treated with an alkali to hopefully reduce its acidity before it is pumped back into the world’s oceans where, being lower in CO2 than the surrounding water, it will then supposedly absorb more CO2 from the atmosphere.
There are so many things wrong with this exercise in utter futility that it’s difficult to know where to start:
I wonder if adding acid to seawater will be good for or harmful to all the micro-organisms which are at the base of the whole of the Earth’s marine ecosystem?
How much energy will be required to produce all the acid and alkali for this idiocy?
How will that energy be produced? From CO2 emitting fossil fuels?
Don’t a lot of the things which thrive in the sea need CO2 to survive?
It seems this briliant idea will expensively remove in one year about as much CO2 as China produces in a couple of minutes or less
And then of course, there is the whole issue that rising CO2 is good for the planet as it causes increased plant growth and a greening of the planet:
The inverse is also true. At the start of the 20th Century, atmospheric CO2 levels (the black line on the image below) were at around 300 ppm (parts per million). This was an historic low:
It is estimated that were CO2 levels to fall towards 250 ppm, then plant life would start to wither and we’d all starve. It would actually be rather amusing if some green grifter ‘scientists’ did find a way to reduce atmospheric CO2 to below 250 ppm and thus wipe out all life on Earth. I wonder how the increasingly climate-bothering Mr Attenborough would make any ‘Life on Earth’ programmes when there wasn’t any life on Earth any more thanks to the climate catastrophist idiots cutting the Earth’s atmospheric CO2 levels?
And. of course, there is no ‘climate crisis’:
I could go on. But instead I recommend you look at the readers’ comments on this insanity below an article about this on THE DAILY SCEPTIC. Clearly DAILY SCEPTIC readers are a lot more intelligent that Britain’s supposed ‘scientists’ and useless politicians: (click on link below)
Great celebration for our useless government. Apparently UK inflation is down from 2.8% last month to 2.6% in March 2025 compared to March 2024.
But I suspect that very few people actually know what the inflation (CPI – Consumer Price Index) figures include and what they don’t include.
Here’s the structure of the main items in the CPI inflation index:
Looking at the different inflation rates, I struggle to see how they all add up to only a 2.6% rise in the CPI. I guess it must have something to do with the weighting of the various items.
But the real issue for me is that these CPI figures give little idea of the real cost of living increases which are crushing many UK households and businesses. For example, the CPI doesn’t include:
Council Tax – up by a minimum of 5%. For 2025-26, the government is letting six areas introduce bigger rises. Bradford Council increased bills by 10% and they rose by 9% in Newham, and Windsor and Maidenhead. Birmingham, Somerset and Trafford put bills up by 7.5%
Water bills – up 26% on average, but up to 47% in some areas
Electricity and gas – For a typical household paying by Direct Debit for dual fuel, the energy price cap will increase by 6.4% to £1,849 per year
Rents – In 2024, UK private rents saw an increase of 9.0% in the 12 months to December 2024, with London experiencing the highest rent inflation at 11.5%
House prices – In 2024, UK house prices experienced a rise of 4.7%. However, this growth wasn’t uniform across all regions. Northern Ireland saw the highest increase at 7.1%, while England’s overall increase was 3.1%. Scotland experienced a 4.4% rise, and Wales saw a 2.7% increase
Private education – up by 10% to 20%
Cost of employing someone – National Insurance rates up by 8.7% from 13.6% of salary to 15% of salary and the threshold that employers start paying National Insurance on an employee’s earnings fell from £9,100 to £5,000 a year.
Business rates – 75% relief on business rates, charged on most non-domestic properties, will continue at a lower rate of 40%.
So, if you’ve got a feeling that your cost of living and your employer’s costs are really rocketing up well above the 2.6% suggested by the latest CPI figures, then you’re right.
As per usual, don’t believe anything our worthless mainstream media tells you.
Can anyone see that there’s a slight practical problem with this means of transport? If you can, you’re a lot smarter than 99% of our political leaders.
Our brilliant government is trying to save the Scunthorpe steelworks. Starmer’s idiots don’t want to nationalise the company. Instead they claim to be looking for a private-sector partner. But what private-sector company would invest in the uninvestible?
Here are industrial energy prices from a few countries:
Hooray, as you can see, thanks to our scientifically-challenged political elites, Britain is truly leading the world with its ludicrously high electricity prices.
Electricity makes up around a third of the cost of blast furnace steel:
So, how can a blast furnace in a country with the world’s highest energy prices compete with steel from countries with much lower energy prices?
This brings us back to the utter absurdity of our government’s (lack of) industrial policies:
If you and I can see this, why can’t the political elites?
Watching these two short videos, I just didn’t know whether they were fake or genuine. But the fact that I, and other people, might suspect they are genuine shows the extent to which our ruling elites hate us and are prepared to sell us out because of their contempt for us.
Here’s a voice only version:
And here’s a filmed version which leads me to believe the video is genuine:
🚨 Explosive leaked video of David Cameron exposes the Tories’ sinister plot to hand UK leadership to Muslims!
We’ve been screaming about this plan forever, and people had the nerve to call us conspiracy theorists!
I particularly like Mr Cameron’s proposal that we need more members of our favourite religion in senior positions in our armed forces. That will come in handy when civil war breaks out in England, not.
Everything I write in this blog is based on my worthless, uninformed and biased opinions. So please don’t sue me as I believe that I am still allowed to express an opinion in Starmer’s People’s Republic of Britain twinned with North Korea.
April 30th 2025 is an important and exciting day. Yes, you guessed it – April 30th is The NHS Confederation’s “Leadership for Inclusion: DIE (Diversity, Inclusion and Equality) professionals Conference”.
We’re told that: “The conference provides a unique opportunity to contribute to discussions with our influential speakers and help shape upcoming legislation and national policy”
Here are some of the astonishingly important individuals who will be key speakers:
 Dr Navina Evans, Chief Workforce, Training and Education Officer, NHS England
Barry Mussenden, Deputy Director Comms, Department for Health and Social Care
Roger James, Interim Deputy Director, Care Quality Commission
Professor Habib Naqvi, CEO, NHS Race and Health Observatory
Max Edelstyn, Head of Programme, Equality and Human Rights Commission
Rebecca Grant, Senior Associate, Equality and Human Rights Commission
Joan Saddler OBE, Director of Partnerships and Equality, NHS Confederation
I don’t know whether any of these astonishingly important individuals has ever actually treated a person who is ill. But I bet they’re all really clued up on the latest ‘white privilege’, ‘micro-aggression’, ‘intersectionality’ nonsense. I also bet they’re all extremely well paid with money which could possibly be better used actually treating some of the more than seven million people stuck on NHS waiting lists.
The organisers of this important, ground-breaking, fantabulous conference tell potential participants why they should attend:
Network with peers and share best practice in the EDI and health inequalities space.Â
Contribute to discussions which will help shape upcoming legislation and national policy.Â
Explore solutions to challenges associated with this work within the current political climate.Â
Be inspired to continue the path of being an agent for change.
In case you are inspired to attend this event which is vitally important to our nation’s health, here are the details you’ll need:
Places cost £100 + VAT for one delegate place and £160 + VAT for two delegate places.
Paul Deemer Samantha Rashid Head of Diversity and Inclusion Assistant Director NHS Employers Partnerships and Equality, Policy and Delivery NHS Confederation
I should have got suspicious when I Googled my GP practice’s website. Under the heading “Doctors and staff” the website informed visitors that: “We have a team of experienced practice nurses led by Sister ….. ” No mention of doctors. Though when you clicked on the heading “Doctors and staff” you did get a list of the doctors at the practice.
Anyway, I had been to see a private practice GP about a shoulder strain. But he noticed that I had another rather more serious health issue which needed investigation. I did then book about £780 of tests at a private hospital. But thinking I might eventually need an operation on the NHS, I decided to also try to go through my local GP surgery as I suspected the NHS would refuse any assessment done by a private hospital as the NHS would have its own ‘pathways’ that prospective patients would be expected to follow.
Step 1: E-Consult – the first step in trying to see my local NHS GP was to fill in an E-Consult online form which would then apparently be forwarded to my GP surgery for triage so the doctors there could assess whether I needed an appointment. I filled in the E-Consult form with all the relevant information and at the end a big red notice came up telling me that there was nothing the E-Consult system could do and that none of the information I had entered would be passed on to my GP. Fortunately, I am reasonably computer-literate. I wonder how 80- and 90-year-olds who have never used a computer get round this barrier to ever seeing a doctor.
Step 2: Surgery visit – I went to my local GP surgery and explained that the E-Consult system had rejected my submission. No problem, the receptionist was surprisingly helpful and filled in an E-Consult online form on her computer. She then told me that this would be submitted to a doctor at the surgery for triage and that I should get a response within a couple of days.
Step 3: GP response – After a couple of days, I got an email from a GP at the surgery asking me to briefly describe my condition. This, of course, added nothing to the information which was already on the E-Consult form the receptionist had filled in with me. Nevertheless, I wrote a couple of sentences in a reply email to the doctor which gave less information than that already on the E-Consult online system.
Step 4: I can see a doctor – the next day I got a reply from a GP at the surgery telling me I should call the surgery reception and ask for a “red” appointment with a GP at the surgery. I did this and was surprised to be offered a GP appointment for the next day. I did get to see a real GP – not the usual ‘Nurse Practitioner’ or ‘Doctor Associate’ which so many GP surgeries use to avoid doctors ever having to deal with patients. The doctor greeted me and said, “I believe you’ve had problems with your breathing“. Given all the information I had already put on the E-Consult system, I thought that was a rather lame effort by the GP. Clearly he had only glanced at the E-Consult system and hadn’t a clue why I had been told to get a “red” appointment to see him. Incidentally, the private practice GP told me that he had examined me with a stethoscope which also had an ECG function. When I mentioned this to the NHS GP, he told me that I must be mistaken as such a stethoscope doesn’t exist. I have just checked on Google and there are numerous suppliers offering a ‘dual function’ stethoscope incorporating traditional stethoscope functions and an ECG. Oh dear!
Since then things have started to move. I had a chest X-Ray at my local hospital the next working day and the results from the X-Ray should be with the GP surgery within 2 to 3 weeks. I am also booked in for some further tests at the surgery.
So, I guess I shouldn’t be complaining. I actually got to see a real doctor. Many other people never even get that far. From the little I understand about our NHS, most of GPs’ earnings come from the number of people registered with each GP practice and not from the number of people who are actually seen by a doctor. Though surgeries can increase their earnings by giving flu jabs and Covid boosters and suchlike which can all be done by nurses. So there is little incentive for GPs to see patients. In fact, it’s probably much more financially-rewarding for the surgery’s finances to fob people off with ‘Nurse Practioners’ and ‘Doctor Associates’.
Hooray for our NHS – the envy of the world – yet which no country seems eager to copy!
Not since the Chinese lab-leaked covid plague and the imposition of the ‘safe’ and ‘effective’ fake but hugely profitable vaccines have I seen much utter nonsense from the mainstream media as we’re now getting over Trump’s trade tariffs.
We’ve been told by the ‘experts’ that Trump is starting a trade war, that Trump’s tariffs will cause a world-wide recession, that Trump’s tariffs show he is economically-ignorant and has learnt nothing from the results of tariffs being introduced in the 1930s Great Depression, that Trump’s tariffs are a ‘lose-lose’, that Trump’s tariffs are a ‘catastrophe’ for the world and so on and so forth.
It’s all rubbish, nonsense, worthless blethering from the Trump-loathing mainstream media.
When Trump introduced his trade tariffs, he held up a chart showing the tariffs on US goods imposed by countries trading with the US and beside those figures, the reciprocal tariffs being brought in by the US. But this wasn’t the start of a ‘trade war’:
It was merely the start of a negotiation. Trump was saying something like: ‘we will put the same tariffs on you as you put on us. If you want us to drop our tariffs, then you have to drop the tariffs you put on US goods’. It’s that simple.
From the little I understand, around 50 countries have already been in contact with the US administration over negotiating a new trade deal with the US involving both sides reducing tariffs. Taiwan and Vietnam have already asked for new trade negotiations. I expect many more countries will follow.
The interesting cases will be China and the EU.
China: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) doesn’t want to be seen as weak and thus losing face. So the CCP has already put increased tariffs on American imports. This will hurt the Chinese population much more than it will hurt the US. Many of the products China exports to the US are ‘discretionary spend’ – they are seldom life’s essentials – people can choose whether to buy them or not. But most of the products the US sends to China are agricultural – food. China is already in a terrible recession as the more belligerent Xi PingPong acts towards Taiwan, the more many Western companies are trying to avoid political risk by moving production from China to countries like Vietnam, India and Mexico. Though, in a recent case, Foxcomm moved production of some electronic products to India. But they were so infected with ecoli and other nasties that production had to be moved back to China. It appears our Indian friends haven’t yet learnt some basic rules of toilet hygiene. Nevertheless, millions of Chinese workers haven’t been paid for months, millions more have lost their jobs and some Chinese business owners have been grabbing whatever cash they can lay their hands on and scarpering. So a large increase in food prices caused by the CCP imposing tariffs on food from the US is going to seriously damage many of the poorest in China.
The EU: The first instinct of EU bureaucrats is to want to start a trade war with the US as, like the CCP, the eurocrats don’t want to appear weak and lose face. Certainly they don’t want to be seen to be pushed around by the much-hated Trump. Moreover, like in the UK, those ruling Europe have only contempt for those whose lives they control. So the EU elites will think nothing of starting a tariff war with the US if they feel it bolsters their power however much damage it does to EU countries’ economies. Macron and whatever nonentity is now German’s Chancellor are already beating their chests and ‘bravely’ bellowing their defiance to the Trump tariffs. It will be interesting to see whether the other EU leaders are willing to follow the French and Germans into a trade war with the US. I suspect not.
Britain: The UK is stuck in a bit of a quandary. Congenital liar Starmer is desperate to drag the country back into the EU. And dragging us into a trade war on the side of the EU against the US would give Starmer yet another excuse to move us towards rejoining the EU. On the other hand, given that tariffs on UK exports to the US are only 10% compared to 20% for the EU, it might be difficult for even such an accomplished liar such as Starmer to jump into bed with the EU against the US.
And for those who believe I am writing nonsense, here’s one of many models of how to do a negotiation:
What are the five 5 rules of negotiation?
Information is Power — Expert negotiators often enter negotiations with arguments intended to persuade the other side of the legitimacy of their positions. …
Maximize Your Leverage. …
Employ “Fair” Objective Criteria. …
Design an Offer-Concession Strategy. …
5 Control the Agenda
That seems to me to be pretty much exactly what Trump and the US trade negotiators are doing.
Here’s a chart of the FTSE 100 stocks over the last week:
Hence much panic and screaming ‘Trump has destroyed the world economy’ and ‘we’re all going to die’ from the mostly Trump-hating mainstream media.
But here’s the FTSE 100 for the last 10 years:
Oh. Why the current panic? Things don’t look too bad at all.
Anyway, I don’t understand why all the supposed ‘experts’ are predicting a trade war and a global recession. I haven’t read Trump’s book THE ART OF THE DEAL. But his methodology seems pretty clear to me:
Make an outrageous demand – we’re putting 25% tariffs on Mexico, we’re going to invade Panama, we’re going to buy Greenland, we’re going to empty the Gaza strip and turn it into a holiday resort etc etc
Trump’s outrageous demand forces political leaders to awake from their lethargy and to come back to Trump with a counter proposal
A compromise is reached and Trump gets what he always really wanted
I suspect that the tariffs imposition is just following the same playbook and what Trump is really after is tariffs renegotiation with the US’s main trading partners to give the US more favourable trading terms.
But I guess the ‘experts’ need to exaggerate everything out of all proportion to what’s really happening to make themselves look knowledgeable and important, to get the maximum number of readers and/or clicks and to keep their jobs.
So, relax everybody. It’s not the end of the world.
By the way, I’ve just noticed that Amazon are selling the paperback copy of my latest book THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS at 10% off. So now you can buy copies as early Christmas presents saving yourselves just over £0.80 per book.
David Craig, on April 19th, 2025
