tomo,
That thread says that the Met Office operates as a trading fund — handling its own revenues and expenses outside the government's main budget — but it's just a lie isn't it? What percentage of its supposed revenue is voluntary private payment?

To the main topic of that thread: Steve McIntyre used to talk about the legal repercussions of faking mining assays, contrasting that with what Mann and his ilk had been up to. Met Office is doing the same. Academia and "trading funds" aren't held to as high a standard as private companies.

Couple of reasonable reads from comments at Jo Nova's today:

   Roger Pielke Jr describes his ousting from tenured professorship. I only read the first third or so and skimmed the rest. Shades of Brazil. Might be fitting for a DOGElike eye to light on UC Boulder.

   University of Sussex is offering a degree in climate justice. As the author of the article highlights, the degree is a BA, despite being pure BS.

tomo,
The sniff might just be a sign he'd recently partaken of a nice Malaysian laksa.

I do sympathise with you on your parliament. It's not a case of their hiding their light under a bushel; there's no light to hide. We've an abundance of idiots here too, but at least some of the others are smart enough to pass for traditional politicians (i.e. venal).

NIH insider story was an interesting read, though nothing greatly surprising. In the mould of so many large organisations rife with political squabbles.

Vance interview was ok, but I thought the YouTube comments were very interesting. Most I saw were anti-Vance/Trump. I only looked at a few dozen and YT says there are over 28000. Has me wondering on the algorithm they're using to sort top comments: could it be partisan?

3.6m views is quite a few over 18 hours. Maybe the comments don't matter that much.

Comment at Jo Nova's today points out this item at WUWT saying that the defamation judgement against Steyn has been reviewed down: $1 million reduced to $5 thousand. I wonder how much this substantial reduction might owe to the change in climate in Washington. Also nice to think that Mann's backers could be feeling a little cash-strapped with the DOGE goings-on; and also might be less willing to put the head above the parapet.

tomo,
Letby might just be on the wrong tail of Blackstone's Ratio. (think how many innocent people are in prison if the ratio is at all close — it was meant to be rhetorical wasn't it?)

Mighty rich of Streeting to pull on the mantle of champion of the bereaved and say: "I would ask people to consider those grieving parents who've lost their babies." I'm guessing his ego may have got in the way of noticing that "people" includes him. How much comfort will the bereaved take from knowing that this woman might be in prison merely as scapegoat for a system that was doing a poor job. A system that Streeting happens to be responsible for.

Zelenskyy: could have been high. Metaphorically or literally, it turned out to be a bad trip.

Looking at what Streeting said about Letby put me in mind of Australia's defence minister's assurances that three Chinese warships frolicking in the Tasman Sea were "not a threat". When I first heard it, I wondered if he might be meaning that they were a *promise*.

Tomo,

You think Zalensky found some of Hunters stash??

The left seems particularly determined to keep the war in the Ukraine going. I think this is more them being against a peace deal arranged by Trump than peace itself but yeah, they are determined to keep this war going.