No Pcar, that is NOT what she said. Look again at the extracts I cited yesterday. Better still read the transcript of her speech - not the words of someone who wants to achieve Net Zero.

tomo,
Justice is tough to define, but you do know it when you see it.

The CO2 message is vague enough to be spun many ways. In the early noughties, when the hullabaloo was getting properly into gear, Australia was counted as being responsible for 2% of global emissions. I suggested (among friends) we should commit to reducing our share to 1% by 2020. This'd involve doing nothing, achieving it on the back of China's growth. My prediction was a bit off, probably because Australia's population has grown by about a third since 2000. Even though we're emitting more CO2 than in 2000, we're now down at 1.1% of world emissions.

This kind of commitment would not appeal to religious alarmists, but logically, it works ok. If world emissions start coming down, we have to reduce ours accordingly. Of course world emissions aren't doing anything of the kind, so what's the point of hurting ourselves?

It sounds to me like Badenoch is thinking along similar lines. She has spotted the contrast between what is said about emissions and what is actually happening to them. Doublethink again.

COVID dissident Kiwi doctor, Samantha Bailey, has been struck off for naughty YouTubes which suggested that the NZ government's pandemic actions might not be beneficial.

Enjoyed the recent EconTalk with Diasy Christodoulou on the use of AI in education. In three years she has gone from very enthusiastic to quite sceptical. Was amusing hearing how automatically marked essays increased the teacher's workload. They still had to read the essay, and now they had to assess the AI assessment of it (filtering out AI hallucinations, etc.).

An odd bit was that when AI was asked to pick which is the better essay: Peter's or Paul's?, the results were not "commutative"; it would often answer the other way if the question was Paul's or Peter's. Down in the bones of the thing, I suppose this comes down to the non-commutativity of matrix multiplication, but it's hardly intelligent.

Couple of digs at self-driving cars were in there too, which is always a winner with me.

Detractions: her rather strong "Estuary" accent, and her tendency to interrupt/talk over the top (might have been down to internet delay).

Badenoch was actually the only MP who managed to question net zero in the debate where it was approved by acclamation in 2019.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-06-24/debates/28C238E5-2CA0-421C-AE98-B2588C102CB0/details#contribution-7F6C9363-DBD3-4498-8D2C-E39CE13E07B9

She has two problems to contend with. First, these MPs have declared their belief in Net Zero and will probably ensure she is ousted:

https://www.cen.uk.com/our-caucus

They have already been spouting criticism.

The second is trying to guess the size of the Tory green vote. There is a diehard element that profits from green business, including large donors such as Bamford. Among the general public there are some who remain bamboozled by BBC propaganda who believe the narrative, but are not going to prefer other parties otherwise.

On the other hand there are many who are sceptical who have deserted the Tories into NOTA or Reform principally who could be won back.

The journey down the route This year, next year, sometime, never… is almost certainly being driven by political expediency. The question is will this actually split the party? If it does, then I think we would see the CEN MPs fade to irrelevance or perhaps try to invade Lib Dems who might become the largest opposition party, but it would free those who disagree with them to be much more honest.

It will be for Reform to wake up and smell the coffee over energy policy: their present thinking is dire and rudimentary, and they don’t appear to have latched on to good advice.

https://davidturver.substack.com/p/reform-needs-to-reform-energy-policy

The Tories (or at least Claire Coutinho – who is really behind the policy change – and her team) have opened the door to sound advice – hence the warm reception from Benny Peiser at GWPF.

Mailman,
It's not just political parties either. This daft notion of taking your loyal supporters for granted seems to be everywhere, more or less encapsulated in the customary Your call is important to us phone systems. How they deal with you is much truer than their soothing words.

It fits very well with Orwell's doublethink. We live in a "service economy", where the service is nearly always lousy. You've changed from a "Conservative government" who fostered chaos, to a "Labour Government" which despises the working class.

I wish Orwell had told us what the cure was. Large quantities of oily gin didn't work out all that well for Winston.