Tristan Hore

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The Free Speech Union is taking an interest in the story of Jason Arday for a number of reasons.

First, we want to know who paid for the threatening letter from the law firm Carter-Ruck — effectively a SLAPP — that was sent to Times Higher Education in an attempt to get journalist Jack Grove to stop asking Professor Arday questions about his academic record.

Was it Jason Arday himself? The University of Cambridge? Or the Good Law Project?

Second, we want to know who reported both the academic and former professor David Harris and Times Higher Education journalist Jack Grove to the police, alleging harassment after they began asking Arday questions about his academic and extracurricular record.

In David Harris’s case, the Metropolitan Police referred the complaint to Devon and Cornwall Police, which rightly decided there was nothing to investigate.

But in Jack Grove’s case, he was contacted by the police and informed that he had been the subject of a four-month investigation by the Met. While officers said they would be taking no further action, he was told he should refrain from questioning Jason Arday again because it was also affecting Arday’s mental health.

The police should never be telling journalists whom they can and cannot question — particularly when there are legitimate questions that need answering.

Powerful people should not be able to use the police to silence journalists and academics who are simply asking questions and doing their jobs.

The Free Speech Union has written to Sir Mark Rowley, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, to ask what on earth his officers were playing at. He has yet to reply.

If Jason Arday was the person who reported these individuals to the police, that is one thing. But if it was the University of Cambridge, that would be even more serious — and is something FSU General Secretary Lord Young will be raising in Parliament in due course.

Watch Lord Young below 👇

[ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs @MorlockP]

LMAO.

We gave everyone on Earth their own cellphone.

1% of people use them to study physics or learn coding.

10% use them to learn how to lay tile or fix a carburetor.

50% of them use them to watch porn or gangster rap in public areas without headphones.

[Andrew Montford @aDissentient]

Looks like the grid was forced to throw money at the situation last night. There are screeds of these deals - too many to show here.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

💥Derek Dimmock Midazolam Inquest update

I have made a point of following the Coroners inquest of Derek (Del) Dimmock very closely as I have been involved since the outset when his son Paul contacted me.
💥See thread below

[Liz Truss @trussliz]

My plan in 2022 was to lower the cost of domestic energy in Britain (relative to the international market) by:

- abolishing windfall tax on North Sea
- licensing new North Sea production
- allowing fracking
- abolishing green taxes and subsidies

This would have lowered Britain's domestic energy costs relative to the international market.

At the same time we would guarantee that energy bills would not go above £2,500 - recognising the prior state failure in ensuring security of energy and the necessity of energy for the economy.

Because this only paid out when energy prices were high- its cost would be quickly reduced/eliminated by falling domestic energy prices thanks to supply side policy.

Needless to say the Treasury was unable/unwilling to model this and the policy was missrepresented by the media who simply don't understand this stuff.

My successors continued with the price guarantee but failed to implement the supply side measures.

Thus we are back to square one.

It's still the right policy.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

We heard from one witness who was called a ‘fucking liar’ and a lying 'white bitch' by a white woman at her rapist’s sentencing, who the survivor suspects was groomed herself and 'married' into the family. She screamed at the survivor, and said that ‘God will be the witness’ for what happens to her.

This is important.

One of the key messages to come out of our inquiry’s first week is that this evil continues today.

Both in terms of the rapes, abuse and torture, but also the consequences of what has come before.

Women, still under the control of these gangs - some overseas we fear, but very, very many still living in Britain. They were physically and psychologically tortured, and now are married into these Muslim families with the rapists as their ‘husbands’.

These women have been broken down with such brutal and systemic torment, this is just their life now.

All too many people talk of these gangs as if it’s a scandal from the past. It’s not. It is happening right now. All over Britain.

Which is why the Government’s failure to properly investigate it at speed is so incredibly evil.

Women have managed to escape the control of these gangs, but many have not. It’s impossible to say how many.

You could not write a horror film like it. It is that bad. It is just all so unthinkable.

[Raja Miah @recusant_raja]

https://t.co/nVYy8pmPCh

[Robert Boswall @RobertBoswall]

1/ Wind is an anti-social technology. It makes its problems into the system's problems.

But as with all anti-social behaviour, the system bears some responsibility for allowing it.

@watt_direction lays this out well with the example of Viking Wind Farm.

https://t.co/LLMZEEW5vX

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

Three years ago today, after I raised concerns about the ‘safety and efficacy’ of the Covid 19 ‘vaccines’ which stopped them being administered to infants and babies.I was smeared by the man who rolled the jabs out and the PM who held 11% of the shares in Moderna. Do you see now?

[Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki @MatthewWielicki]

It’s the Clouds, Not CO₂

And an overlooked new paper quietly proves it

A new observational study just delivered an inconvenient result for the climate-model narrative... and almost no one is talking about it.

The paper, published in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (2025), analyzed more than 30 years of real-world measurements of downward longwave radiation at the ocean surface using data from 65 globally distributed buoys. This isn’t a model exercise. It isn’t a reanalysis. It’s the climate system as it actually behaves.

And what did they find?

The dominant control on surface longwave radiation, the energy that actually warms the surface, is cloud properties, not CO₂.

Let’s slow that down, because this matters.

Downward longwave radiation is the key mechanism by which the atmosphere transfers heat to the surface. If CO₂ were truly the primary driver of surface warming, you would expect changes in CO₂ to show up clearly.

They don’t.

Instead, the study shows that the best-performing models of surface longwave radiation rely almost entirely on:

-near-surface air temperature
-humidity
-cloud fraction
-cloud liquid water
-cloud ice water

In fact, the authors demonstrate that explicitly accounting for cloud thermodynamics dramatically improves agreement with observations, while formulations that rely on simplified or indirect representations perform significantly worse.

CO₂ doesn’t even appear explicitly in the best formulations... not because it violates physics, but because at the surface, clouds dominate the signal.

This alone should raise eyebrows.

Even more telling, the paper shows that major reanalysis products, the very datasets used to calibrate and validate climate models, perform worse than simple, observation-anchored empirical models. That means models are being tuned against datasets that already struggle to correctly partition energy between clouds and greenhouse gases.

In other words, if models appear to get the “right answer,” it may be because forcing from CO₂ is being adjusted upward to compensate for unresolved cloud processes.

That’s not a conspiracy. That’s how parameterization works when key physics can’t be resolved.

This study does not claim that CO₂ has no radiative effect. It doesn’t need to. What it shows, quietly but clearly, is that surface energy balance is governed primarily by clouds, which are:

-highly variable
-poorly constrained
-non-linear
-and deeply entangled with natural variability

That’s a problem for any narrative claiming we can precisely control global temperature by fine-tuning atmospheric CO₂.

It also helps explain a long-standing observation: why surface warming trends, especially over oceans, often fail to track model expectations. The models aren’t wrong because physics is wrong... they’re wrong because clouds are doing the heavy lifting, and we still don’t understand them well enough to parameterize them without tuning.

This paper doesn’t shout. It doesn’t challenge policy. It doesn’t wave ideological flags.

It just measures reality.

And reality keeps pointing to the same conclusion:
CO₂ may matter, but clouds run the system where it counts, at the surface.

If you want the deeper breakdown... including what this means for climate sensitivity, model tuning, and why “solutions” focused solely on CO₂ are likely to fail, that’s exactly what I cover at Irrational Fear.

Because the more data we collect, the clearer it becomes:

The climate story isn’t simpler than we were told.
It’s far more complex... and far less controllable.

https://t.co/CZJCckOqJR

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

Correct. The lockdowners have somehow convinced themselves that Sweden did worse in Covid than Norway, Finland and Denmark. Not true.

Did Lady Hallet ever even look at this?

[Lembit Öpik @lembitopik]

The Covid inquiry missed the key point: there’s no proof lockdowns saved lives, instead of ruining them. After all, if lockdowns mattered, why did Prime Ministers, Government advisers & news presenters who instructed us to “isolate” ignore their own orders?

[Jusper Machogu @JusperMachogu]

I got rained on. Rain is how we grow our crops, not irrigation. I look forward to having everyone in my community connected to clean tap water from our borehole, someday, just like Americans and Europeans.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

"One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again."

— Thomas Sowell

[JD Vance @JDVance]

A while ago, probably in 2017, I appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox show to talk about God knows what. Afterwards a name I barely knew sent me a DM on twitter and told me I did a great job. It was Charlie Kirk, and that moment of kindness began a friendship that lasted until today.

Charlie was fascinated by ideas and always willing to learn and change his mind. Like me, he was skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016. Like me, he came to see President Trump as the only figure capable of moving American politics away from the globalism that had dominated for our entire lives. When others were right, he learned from them. When he was right--as he usually was--he was generous. With Charlie, the attitude was never, "I told you so." But: "welcome."

Charlie was one of the first people I called when I thought about running for senate in early 2021. I was interested but skeptical there was a pathway. We talked through everything, from the strategy to the fundraising to the grassroots of the movement he knew so well. He introduced me to some of the people who would run my campaign and also to Donald Trump Jr. "Like his dad, he's misunderstood. He's extremely smart, and very much on our wavelength." Don took a call from me because Charlie asked him too.

Long before I ever committed (even in my mind) to running, Charlie had me speak to his donors at a TPUSA event. He walked me around the room and introduced me. He gave me honest feedback on my remarks. He had no reason to do this, no expectation that I'd go anywhere. I was polling, at that point, well below 5 percent. He did it because we were friends, and because he was a good man.

When I became the VP nominee--something Charlie advocated for both in public and private--Charlie was there for me. I was so glad to be part of the president's team, but candidly surprised by the effect it had on our family. Our kids, especially our oldest, struggled with the attention and the constant presence of the protective detail. I felt this acute sense of guilt, that I had conscripted my kids into this life without getting their permission. And Charlie was constantly calling and texting, checking on our family and offering guidance and prayers. Some of our most successful events were organized not by the campaign, but by TPUSA. He wasn't just a thinker, he was a doer, turning big ideas into bigger events with thousands of activists. And after every event, he would give me a big hug, tell me he was praying for me, and ask me what he could do. "You focus on Wisconsin," he'd tell me. "Arizona is in the bag." And it was.

Charlie genuinely believed in and loved Jesus Christ. He had a profound faith. We used to argue about Catholicism and Protestantism and who was right about minor doctrinal questions. Because he loved God, he wanted to understand him.

Someone else pointed out that Charlie died doing what he loved: discussing ideas. He would go into these hostile crowds and answer their questions. If it was a friendly crowd, and a progressive asked a question to jeers from the audience, he'd encourage his fans to calm down and let everyone speak. He exemplified a foundational virtue of our Republic: the willingness to speak openly and debate ideas.

Charlie had an uncanny ability to know when to push the envelope and when to be more conventional. I've seen people attack him for years for being wrong on this or that issue publicly, never realizing that privately he was working to broaden the scope of acceptable debate.

He was a great family man. I was talking to President Trump in the Oval Office today, and he said, "I know he was a very good friend of yours." I nodded silently, and President Trump observed that Charlie really loved his family. The president was right. Charlie was so proud of Erika and the two kids. He was so happy to be a father. And he felt such gratitude for having found a woman of God with whom he could build a family.

Charlie Kirk was a true friend. The kind of guy you could say something to and know it would always stay with him. I am on more than a few group chats with Charlie and people he introduced me to over the years. We celebrate weddings and babies, bust each other's chops, and mourn the loss of loved ones. We talk about politics and policy and sports and life. These group chats include people at the very highest level of our government. They trusted him, loved him, and knew he'd always have their backs. And because he was a true friend ,you could instinctively trust the people Charlie introduced you to. So much of the success we've had in this administration traces directly to Charlie's ability to organize and convene. He didn't just help us win in 2024, he helped us staff the entire government.

I was in a meeting in the West Wing when those group chats started lighting up with people telling Charlie they were praying for him. And that's how I learned the news that my friend had been shot. I prayed a lot over the next hour, as first good news and then bad trickled in.

God didn't answer those prayers, and that's OK. He had other plans. And now that Charlie is in heaven, I'll ask him to talk to big man directly on behalf of his family, his friends, and the country he loved so dearly.

You ran a good race, my friend.

We've got it from here.

[Alan Wolan @AlanWolan]

"Comparing any society to ideals virtually guarantees that that society will be condemned as a failure, if only because it costs nothing to imagine something better than what exists - that is, to create ideals - while everything created in the real world has a cost.
Moreover, our only choice in the real world is between different societies compared to each other - not compared to ideals such as "social justice."
Thomas Sowell

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

When @Glinner landed at Heathrow, he was met by five armed police officers, and immediately arrested.

His ‘crime’? Three gender-critical tweets.

As Graham says in his Substack:

“In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilised five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer”.

Graham’s single bail condition is that he does not go on X.

We do not believe Graham’s arrest or the bail conditions imposed were lawful. We will be backing him all the way in his fight against these preposterous allegations and the disproportionate response from the police.

[Tristan Hore @TristanHore]

Having followed climate sience as an interested amature for 4 decades I find Nikolov's explanation is a more satisfying approach than traditional radiative forcing. It is worth strong consideration.

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

There are still people (like Peter Carter), who don't understand that climate models used by IPCC have NO skill, because they rest on a WRONG theory from the 19th Century.

The warming of recent decades was a result of decreasing cloud albedo, not increasing "greenhouse gases". Invisible trace gases such as CO2 and CH4 have ZERO effect on climate, because the Atmospheric Thermal Effect is a thermodynamic phenomenon caused by total air pressure, NOT a radiative phenomenon caused by IR absorptivity of some trace gases!

Climate science has been on the wrong track for over 50 years!