Every indignation of the age

'Furious' Prince Harry 'still expects apology' from Royal Family as he begins news life in UK

While the return of Harry to the UK raised hopes of reconciliation with his family, he is said to be still ‘spitting feathers’

Prince Harry is “just as angry” as when he left Britain six years ago and “expects an apology” from the Royal Family, friends of the Duke reportedly claim.

Harry, his wife Meghan and their two children Archie and Lilibet returned to the UK to live earlier this week.

His mind, under the influence of that insidious mildew which eventually forms on all but the few, gave itself up furiously to every indignation of the age.

F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

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Iceland rejects EU vote in referendum focussed on Trump and fishing

Iceland has rejected a proposal to restart negotiations on joining the European Union.

A vote over the weekend took place more than a decade after previous talks ended. It was held in the shadow of U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated threats to control nearby Greenland, which drove some voters to favor the idea of European solidarity.

The vote will put the long-debated issue to rest more than a decade after a euroskeptic government ended EU talks.

Opponents defeated the measure by a margin of 52.8% to 47.2%, RUV reported.


Good news, maybe 52.8% realise the EU would betray them.

A highly politicized public institution

An interesting piece from Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) on climate activist shenanigans by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in the US. 

As is also the case here in the UK, the activist corruption of supposedly apolitical public institutions can be deep-seated.

Congress’ Questioning of the National Academies is Crucial to Restoring Faith in Science

PPT applauds the House Oversight Committee’s inquiry into a highly politicized public institution.

Federal watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) today voiced its support for the House Oversight Committee’s letter to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) regarding its highly irregular “fast-track” review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to rescind its 2009 Endangerment Finding on CO2. PPT has previously raised concerns that NASEM’s review was the work of a politically compromised institution.

According its 1863 charter, NASEM is a resource for advising the government “whenever called upon.” However, the Trump EPA rolling back the Endangerment Finding seemed to rouse NASEM into taking the extraordinary action of initiating an in-house study without authorization from a government agency. NASEM’s review appears to have been designed not to inform the American people, but to insert itself into government policymaking, undermine the EPA, and provide ammunition for anticipated litigation.

Unsurprisingly, NASEM’s fast-track study was little better than the original finding it was meant to bolster, with just as predetermined an outcome. As PPT and others revealed, the Obama EPA and its climate activist allies engineered a rushed, unscientific, and thoroughly political power grab with the Endangerment Finding. The finding declared CO2 – a major component of all life on earth – a “greenhouse pollutant,” essentially creating the climate change industry at the expense of the U.S. economy.

Robot pays too much attention to politics

Science By Headline

The Earth is splitting apart - and scientists are seeing something happen for the first time

Scientists are always discovering something new on Earth - and this time it is the birth of new oceanic crust.

The team say they have historic evidence of this process where the seafloor spreads apart, leading to a release of magma from inside Earth that rises to the surface, it is after this and when it gets in contact with cool seawater that it then solidifies and turns into new ocean crust.

This research, published in Nature, was carried out by French scientists at an autonomous observatory near Amsterdam Island, in the southern Indian Ocean on the edge of the Australian and Antarctic plates and the the Southeast Indian Ridge is nearby too.

Alternatively we have the heading and part of the abstract from the Nature paper on which this story is based.

Anatomy of a seafloor spreading event captured by in situ seismogeodesy

Over geological time, the growth of the ocean floor involves magmatic and tectonic extension1 at mid-ocean ridges (MORs). Because seismogeodetic monitoring of these submarine plate boundaries remains challenging2,3,4,5,6,7, little is known about how these systems operate on yearly timescales. Here we report the first, to our knowledge, in situ observation of a rifting event at a MOR segment that combines hydroacoustic, direct-path ranging and bottom-pressure measurements, with repeated seafloor mapping.

On being part of the Labour team or the Labour family

Minister Miatta Fahnbulleh defends sending children to private school

Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh has defended sending her children to private school despite backing removing the VAT exemption on fees for the independent sector.

The Peckham MP stressed that the VAT move was the “right policy” for a Government as it struggles to balance the books.

Ms Fahnbulleh, who soared into the Cabinet just two years after becoming an MP, also said that sending children to private school does not preclude people from “being part of the Labour team or the Labour family”.


There is nothing wrong with sending your children to private schools, obviously not, but here of course we have yet another example the hoary old champagne socialist story. 

State education is good enough for your kids but not for mine.

Or

Absurdly high fuel bills for you, jetting off to climate conferences for me. 

It's much the same.

In our moral reviews of ourselves we practise optical delusions even upon our own self-scrutiny, and paint and mask our motives, and fill our ears with excuses and with downright lies. So inveterate is the habit of deceiving, and even in the dark we form our features by hypocrisy, and scarcely know all this.

Sheridan Le Fanu - The Wyvern Mystery (1869)

But not cowboy politics

Burnham takes aim at 'cowboy builders' with new crackdown

• Andy Burnham has unveiled new plans to tackle rogue tradespeople known as “cowboy builders” to protect consumers from unfair practices by private bailiffs.
• A government-backed register launching in September will help householders find trusted builders, while a milestone-linked payment system next week will prevent upfront costs.
• The Prime Minister stated that the measures aim to protect families from stress and financial losses while stopping dishonest builders from damaging the reputation of reliable traders.

Meanwhile, in the land of cowboy politics...

HS2, Net Zero, mass immigration, creeping mass surveillance, constant health hectoring, useless university degrees, mountains of official twaddle, worthless promises, absurd levels of taxation, waste, incompetence, endless fiddling around the edges of decline....

and the BBC.