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From ‘Boiling Oceans’ to ‘Heat Storms’: Reuters’ Escalating Climate Alarmism

What had happened? Had greenhouse gases, essential to life on Earth, suddenly become lethal? No. Reuters, led by investigative journalist Maurice Tamman, had introduced a new classification for above-average temperature…

Denmark wants to ban ‘turbo chickens’

His announcement came just a day after a documentary aired with hidden-camera footage from a chicken farm. The footage showed chickens illegally getting just three hours of darkness a day to accelerate growth. The Ross…

Belgium’s deputy PM wants to use ‘trade bazooka’ on US over pharma threats

In the paper, Vandenbroucke and his colleague argue that Brussels should open an ACI investigation in response to Washington’s drug pricing policy. The instrument allows the EU to impose tariffs and restrictions on…

Joe Shalam: Healey’s fudge-it Budget dodged all the hard choices

So say the headlines circulating on TikTok. However enjoyable, the teasing betrays a more sympathetic reading from voters of the new Prime Minister’s approach so far, who has opted for small but tangible improvements…

Treasury will not commit to reducing welfare bill before next election

This suggests, instead, that ministers are not committed to cutting the benefits bill by the next election. The chancellor told Today: "I have said clearly and the prime minister has said as well, we have to bring the…

Lagarde’s early exit Le Pen-proofs ECB as France veers toward a debt reckoning

She has stressed the need for “a pro-European voice” in the French elections in the past, but remained coy on Thursday about running herself. Her announcement comes at a time when candidates from mainstream camps in…

Quebec premier boycotts Mark Carney’s EU summit

He says this leaves his government with “neither a chair at the negotiating table nor the opportunity to speak,” even though the summit is on Quebec soil. Under Canada’s federal system, he argued, the provinces implement…

France in Chaos

On the one hand, its national finances are catastrophic , resulting in multiple warnings from the ECB and the IMF as well as pressure to make €50 billion worth of economies in the current budget negotiations. On the…

A breathing space Budget

The briefings were largely a proxy war for those who wanted to see very different approaches to the economy, with those supporting Miliband calling for more radicalism and those supporting Mahmood saying they wanted a…

‘Scattergun’ budget will still leave Britons facing higher energy bills, says thinktank

The Resolution Foundation said on Thursday that measures to ease household gas and electricity costs would still leave energy bills higher this year than during the last energy shock. In a highly critical verdict on the…