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Peter Hitchens
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Jesus Christ! These are invaders, and must be treated as such.
Refer to previous comment.
One sees how, after the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, when dissenting thinkers such as Galileo were accused of heresy, free thinking was thought of as part and parcel of Western civilization— until now.
The attack on free thought, in the contemporary West, started with the Jew-Zionists, and their plan to make examination of modern history, particularly the “holocaust” farrago and mythus and, within that, especially, the whole “gas chambers” fable, something to be treated as if criminal. That repression is now in place in about 20 European states.
Now we see the knock-on consequences: people dissenting from “mainstream” (propaganda) opinion about aspects of “climate change”, or the “Covid” “panicdemic” should be (some say) treated as criminal. The same goes for those who do not agree with mass immigration and the consequent destruction of European life and culture.
At first, I thought that tweeter Professor Cowern might be a parody account, but no! See https://uk.linkedin.com/in/nickcowern. Someone who apparently worked mainly in “modelling”, employed at Harwell and by Philips electronics, his main field(s) being in materials science and semiconductors (i.e. nothing to do with climate), but who now focusses upon and, it seems, obsesses about climate change by reason of human agency.
He was a professor at Newcastle University for only 6 years; now “emeritus”, i.e. retired from academia (aged 70), though was until 2021 running his own (one-man-band) show engaged in modelling climate change etc.
The sort of scientist who flourished under Stalin, denouncing those with contrary opinions.
Yes, thankfully, many people are still willing to stand up for academic and personal freedom of thought and expression.
They are not people with what Professor Cowern calls an (impliedly, improper) “interest” in the same, whereas Professor Cowern was Director of a private “climate change modelling” company set up by himself; NC Tech Insight Ltd.
In fact, it seems that Professor Cowern’s Linked-In profile is not entirely accurate, because, according to Companies House, NC Tech Insight Ltd, having been incorporated in 2014 (with a share capital of £100 and actual capital/assets — in 2018— of £83,000), was dissolved in early 2021. It seems that, as far as can be seen on cursory examination, Professor Cowern’s self-promoted expertise is not much in demand: see https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08897617.
More of the “professor’s” words of “wisdom”:
I have to wonder what is the personal provenance of the “professor”…
For a supposed scientist who has (as far as I can see) developed nothing new or at least very interesting in the scientific field, the “professor” is extremely dogmatic and scathing. A Lysenko for our times?
“In 1940, Lysenko became director of the Institute of Genetics within the USSR‘s Academy of Sciences, and he used his political influence and power to suppress dissenting opinions and discredit, marginalize, and imprison his critics, elevating his anti-Mendelian theories to state-sanctioned doctrine.[4]
Soviet scientists who refused to renounce genetics were dismissed from their posts and left destitute. Hundreds if not thousands of others were imprisoned. Several were sentenced to death as enemies of the state, including the botanist Nikolai Vavilov.[5] Lysenko’s ideas and practices contributed to the famines that killed millions of Soviet people;[5] the adoption of his methods from 1958 in the People’s Republic of China had similarly calamitous results, culminating in the Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1962.”[5]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko].
Professor Emeritus Cowern strikes me as a crank, overall, and an unpleasant crank at that. Also, someone with very poor logical skills, looking at his attempts to debate with critics.
“Hate speech“? Is “Professor” Cowern (you know who)?
One of the features of Britain over the past few decades has been the over-supply of supposed “professors”. The proliferation of institutions calling themselves “universities” has resulted in an explosion in the numbers of those designated as “professors”. Many are rather poor.
[Update, 7 February 2025: the blog page for 12 August 2023 having had a few hits today, I looked to see what the “Professor” is saying these days. Nothing much. He has performatively left Twitter/X and is now on its new “woke”/joke rival, “Blue Sky Social”. Same obsession, though: https://bsky.app/profile/nickcowern.bsky.social].
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Good grief. Everyone should know this.
You can see the way things are going, eg in the car production arena. Firstly, the “Great Reset” demands electric cars because (it is falsely claimed) they are more “green” than existing internal combustion cars. Then existing petrol/diesel cars will be gradually phased out (made more expensive or even illegal). Then, after that, most people will simply be unable to afford to buy or drive electric cars. Car transport will thenceforth largely be available only to the self-styled elites: the wealthy, politicians, bankers etc…
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One can see that the transnational conspiracy tries relentlessly to twist or pervert everything in society, and thus it is that, in much of the world, “trans” “women” are given equal designation (or better than) real women, the primitive black cultures and backward “brown” cultures are given equal respect (or better) compared to European/European-derived cultures (which are almost always far more advanced), and disabled athletes, “paralympians”, are (with the best of intentions on the part of many adherents) given equal status with real Olympic athletes, and so on.
Is this terrible fire the result of sabotage? Is it another attempt to “prove” that “global warming” “climate change” via human agency is not a globalist scam?
No wonder you never hear the 1960s, 1950s (and earlier) expostulation “it’s a free country!” any more…
I have never travelled on Ryanair, and I doubt that I ever shall.
A very worthwhile charity: https://www.vauxhallcityfarm.org/.
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Ian Robert Millard 
An absolute traitor and a POS if I ever so one: Graham King (strangely as it may seem, there is no article about him on Wikipedia)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/03/firm-running-asylum-seeker-barracks-in-kent-stands-to-make-1bn
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It is undeniably utterly repulsive treason to make money out of your own country’s destruction.
In more moral and decent times, Britain used to use the hangman’s noose to deal with vermin like that.
A country can only endure so much treason for so long until it collapses and ceases to be having been destroyed from within by traitors.
Treasonous maggots need to be put down or given fifty plus year prison sentences. Either way, a clear line in the sand needs to be drawn to say treason will not be tolerated.
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Prof. Cowern should be shovelling manure 6 hours a day after he spent another 6 hours chopping wood or breaking stones. There would be no Sunday for him and he should have only one meal a day. BTW, the same treatment should be applied to all his supporters.
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I discovered this huge mansion built for Isaac Singer, the American inventor of the famous sewing machine. When he died in 1875, he left a fortune of U$S 13.000.000, today that would be U$S 5.736.000.000. That explains how he could afford such a huge palace, because it truly is a palace. Another billionaire who believed he was the reincarnation of Louis XIV or Napoleon (LOL)
https://www.thecliftonatpaignton.co.uk/oldway-mansion7fd18427
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Claudius:
I have been to that area many times yet never knew of the house. That must have been where Singer pursued his affair with Isadora Duncan.
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Yes, you are right. The man was a kind os sexual predator or maniac. He admitted to have fathered nearly a dozen of children out of wedlock.
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It is an undeniable, scientific fact that electric cars are better for the environment than cars using internal combustion engines. Whilst there are environmental costs to manufacturing them that is the case with all manufactured goods.
Electric cars don’t burn oil and fossil fuels being burnt are one of the main contributory factors causing global warming as the vast majority of the world’s scientists say IS happening.
Electric cars also have one more environmental benefit in that they are a lot less loud than cars with petrol and diesel engines.
Noise pollution is not great especially if you live near a road as many people do in this severely overpopulated country.
The libertarian, climate change deniers of that increasingly silly and outright barmy rag, the Daily Telegraph, (formerly a respectable Tory newspaper) can deny climate change as much as they want to but sensible and intelligent people are not going to listen to them.
They might want to live in a world with no technological progress and wish to turn back the tide of new technology like King Canute but normal, rational folks won’t be joining them.
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Electric car technology is progressing all the time. Soon, they will be a lot cheaper than they currently are and it is therefore clearly right that petrol and diesel cars will be banned from 2030 on our roads (though a slight delay to 2035 might be acceptable).
Luddite Daily Telegraph reading libertarian fantasists should not be allowed to pollute the rest of us with their dirty cars.
Quite a few people in this country die early each year because of air pollution. I see no reason why Luddite Daily Tory Moron readers should be allowed to get away with their polluting ways to the detriment of these people’s health.
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Libertarian extremism with its denial of climate change, its contempt for new technology like electric cars should be left with the Conservative Party though to my mind it is perfectly possible to be a real Tory and/or conservative minded in one’s politics and be concerned about climate change and the environment.
Indeed, Mrs Thatcher said that the basic case for the environment and conservatism was the same.
After all, the verb conserve means to preserve something.
Traditional, REAL Tories should have no problem with environmentalism.
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Toby Young yet another libertarian moronic grifter which this country has a disturbing excess numbers of.
Climate change IS as real as the Sun rising each Morning or does he even deny that?
These libertarian idiots really are SO tiresome.
Can’t we give them all a one way air ticket to libertarian loony central ie the USA (mind you even the US does have some standards) or build a new, very capacious mental hospital on one of the Western Isles, Ascension Island, St Helena?
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The only form of transport that is likely to be rationed is immensely polluting air travel NOT cars.
Even then, it won’t be eventually as air travel is in the very early stages of electrification which in the fullness of time will mean people can take holidays by electric passenger aircraft.
Obviously, your average libertarian luddite loony like Toby Young never goes onto Google and makes a search for the latest battery news. Literally, billions of units of currency all around the world is being ploughed into the development of new battery technology and now significant progress is happening.
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Yes, Vauxhall City Farm is a worthwhile charity. There are many thousands of good charities in the UK from medical research ones to environmental ones and in numerous other fields.
Here are two more: https://www.rainforesttrust.org.uk
https://www.theclimatecoalition.org
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