Shandy Raw

Blimey! Do @UnleashedComedy stuff. Occasional writer, ‘let go’ by The Spectator. 👇

[Shandy Raw @AndyShaw1]

#COP26 has failed
WE MUST ACT NOW!
Become a CARBON CAPTURE scheme by simply placing a plastic bag over your mouth as you breathe out CO2. Squeeze the bag into a barrel & when the barrel is full, drop it into an old well or bury it in the garden.
More: https://t.co/9qwYom2DEX

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Great article.

“ The UN has become one of the most dangerous instruments in modern geopolitics. Authoritarian regimes are using the UN’s prestige to normalise their behavior, conceal their crimes and peddle anti-Western propaganda. It should terrify all of us that the world’s most trusted watchdog has been successfully leveraged as a PR firm for tyrants.”

https://t.co/scgJQ6REmR

[Camilla Tominey @CamillaTominey]

Just a reminder, Polanski is the actual leader of a political party, calling for a list of Jews to be compiled.

[Shandy Raw @AndyShaw1]

@MatthewMarks42 @JKempEnergy Way. I look at my gas and electricity bills it does put me in a dim mood.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

1) As the country reflects this week on the need for equality before the law, David Lammy is promoting a new Diversity Board for the judiciary.

But to say the ethnicity of a judge matters undermines the principle that the law is blind. 1/

[Shandy Raw @AndyShaw1]

@DaleVince Your vanity is destroying our country

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

I’m starting to worry that the Labour Energy team can’t read.

This is not a report about jobs that only exist because of Net Zero.

A sizeable chunk of the jobs included are ‘waste and recycling’ and nuclear power. To state the obvious, we had those before Net Zero.

They aren’t explicit, but they appear to also include burning trees at Drax, which nobody thinks is green but which our Net Zero legislation forces us to do.

It also includes water monitoring and soil restoration - again, nothing to do with Net Zero.

It includes jobs which are not strictly a result of Net Zero, but ‘are not in conflict with it’ - for example, solar panels on roofs, or engineering consultancies. But again, there is no evidence that these jobs would not exist regardless. China, the world’s largest polluter, and the US, which doesn’t have a net zero target, have an abundance of clean tech jobs.

The problem is not clean tech, it is legislation which forces you to pick decarbonisation *when it does not work for the economy or living standards*.

If industries are paid through extremely expensive subsidies on everyone’s energy bills, of course they will be raising private capital - it’s a rent seekers’ paradise - but is that positive for the economy overall?

This is almost as bad as their ‘independent evidence’ that Clean Power 2030 would cut bills, which also turned out to be pure garbage.

For all of those repeating the Labour lines, please at least do the basics of reading the report.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

The report explicitly says it is not the view of the CBI.

It was in fact funded by a green lobby think tank backed one of Labour’s biggest donors: Quadrature Capital.

How convenient that it says what Ed wants it to.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

I have been posting and writing about the Henry Nowak tragedy for three weeks, and have nothing new to say. Except one thing. That box-ticking phrase from the female officer when the murderer denies having stabbed Henry.
“I know, but we have to check, don’t we?”
What we hear in those words is not just the madness of DEI, which has taught her automatically to believe the non-white assailant over the white victim. We hear, too, the obsession with procedure, the elevation of HR, the triumph of public-sector seminars over decency. A culture of compliance has displaced a culture of conscience.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Multiculturalism Built The Training That Killed Henry Nowak. Nobody Is Investigating That.

The Home Secretary stood at the despatch box today and said there must be no two tier policing in Britain. The police have a sacred duty to act without fear or favour. Everyone is equal before the law.

Shabana Mahmood said this the day after the body cam footage of Henry Nowak's final minutes was released. A boy who told officers nine times he could not breathe and had been stabbed. An officer who replied I don't think you have, mate. A killer who was never handcuffed and was taken to choose his food while his victim died in the street. A government whose spokesman said, while that footage existed, that there is no such thing as two tier policing.

That statement lasted hours before political pressure made it untenable. It was withdrawn. Not because the government had examined the evidence. It was withdrawn because the evidence had become impossible to ignore. The Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle had to order the government to make a statement to MPs. A government that requires a Speaker's instruction to respond to one of the most disturbing pieces of body cam footage in British policing history does not take two tier policing seriously. It manages it.

Mahmood warned that anyone using this tragedy to stoke division should be rejected. But the division was not created by those naming it. It was created by decades of multicultural policy, progressive institutional capture and DEI training frameworks that systematically prioritised community cohesion over equal treatment under the law. Rotherham. Rochdale. Oldham. The Batley teacher still in hiding five years later. The Bradford hate crime scrutiny panel chairman sacked for naming the elephant in the room. And now Henry Nowak. The same cause. Different victims. Different towns. The same silence from the same institutions until silence became politically impossible.

The training that conditioned those officers to treat a racism accusation as more urgent than a dying boy's pleas was not an accident. It was built by the Police Race Action Plan, the National Police Chiefs Council's institutional racism declarations, the College of Policing's redesigned disciplinary framework and fifty years of DEI ideology embedded across policing, education, the civil service, HR departments, universities and every institution that shapes how Britain's public servants think and act. Gramsci theorised it. Dutschke operationalised it. Mahmood is now standing at the despatch box condemning its most visible consequence while her government continues to fund and embed its causes.

Kemi Badenoch said something that has been absent from mainstream British political discourse for thirty years. That Britain should be a multi-racial country not a multicultural country. One shared culture. One shared set of values. One law applied equally to everyone regardless of which community they belong to or which accusation they make. That distinction is the most important observation produced by any politician in response to Henry's death. Multiculturalism as a policy framework assumes that multiple incompatible value systems can coexist indefinitely in the same civic space without consequence. Henry's death is one of the most documented consequences of that assumption failing.

The powder keg that has been building for decades across Britain's towns and cities was not created by those asking the questions that Mahmood calls divisive. It was created by the political class that spent fifty years refusing to ask them. The IOPC will investigate the officers. Nobody is investigating the ideology that produced them. That is the conversation Mahmood is determined to prevent. It is the only conversation that matters.

"The powder keg that has been building for decades [...] was not created by those asking the questions that Mahmood calls divisive. It was created by the political class that spent fifty years refusing to ask them."

[Shandy Raw @AndyShaw1]

Theresa May is as stupid as Ed Miliband.
She doubles down on Net Zero just as everyone else turns against it.

[Theresa May @theresa_may]

The net zero economy now supports 1.1m UK jobs and generates £105bn in economic value - proof that tackling climate change & growing the economy can go hand in hand.

Carbon Budget 7 laid in Parliament today provides certainty to help unlock more investment and energy security.

[Shandy Raw @AndyShaw1]

@theresa_may Your legacy.
Delusional madness as our country slips into 3rd world status.

[Intel Lady @intel_lady]

Sadiq Khan had a busy week. Travelling to Saudi Arabia for Mecca, accusing Russia, Maga & China of using bots to spread 'Decline Porn' about London all while organising 'Eid on the Square' & preparing for Pride. He joined Emily Maitlis to give her the details

[Nervana Mahmoud @Nervana_1]

What happened in Paris last night was not a riot—it was a display of deliberate anarchism by people who reject the values and responsibilities of belonging to France.

President Macron @EmmanuelMacron insists on portraying France as an oasis of successful assimilation.

Sadly, recent events suggest otherwise.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

[Shandy Raw @AndyShaw1]

She’ll show those pesky bond markets who’s boss.

[The Reformed Media @ReformedMedia_]

BREAKING 🚨: Allies of Andy Burnham have urged him to appoint Louise Haigh as chancellor if he becomes the next prime minister.

Louise was convicted of fraud in 2013

[Shandy Raw @AndyShaw1]

@ZackPolanski No-one voted for massive debt and tax rises

[Emma Trimble @Emma_A_Webb]

This show is now an artefact. It all seems so anachronistic. Their snobbery is so old hat. “The richest man in the world, who is working to send man to Mars, is so stupid he can’t have read the Odyssey hohoho the only Homer he has heard of is Simpson hoho”

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

Four days before Israel declared independence, Golda Meir made a desperate secret trip to Amman. Disguised as an Arab woman, she met with King Abdullah of Transjordan — an Arab leader who acknowledged Jewish rights to the Land & who many hoped may choose peace.

Abdullah had long kept private contacts with Zionist leaders. He dreamed of a Greater Syria under Hashemite rule and saw cooperation with the Jews as strategically useful.

In their November 1947 meeting, he had hinted at possible accommodation.

But by May 1948, the Arab world was locked in rejection. Abdullah told Golda he was now “one of several” — no longer free to act alone. Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon were all committed to destroying the Jewish state the moment it was born.

He still wanted peace with his Jewish neighbors. But he felt trapped.

Before they parted, the King looked at Golda and said these remarkable words:

“I believe with all my heart that divine providence has brought you back here, restoring you to the Semitic East which needs your knowledge and initiative. Conditions are now difficult, but be patient.”

It was a poignant, almost prophetic farewell.

King Abdullah paid for his pragmatism with his life. On July 20, 1951, while visiting Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, he was assassinated by a local Arab gunman acting on orders from the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi war criminal, Amin al-Husseini. Peace with Jews was considered treason.

This became a tragic pattern: moderate Arab leaders who dared acknowledge Jewish rights or seek accommodation were sidelined, exiled, or killed.

From 1948 onward, maximalist rejectionism has been rewarded while moderation has been punished.

Yet the Jewish state survived — and thrived anyway.

[Shandy Raw @AndyShaw1]

@EllieChowns Why are you so obsessed with the Jewish state?