
Matt Ridley
@mattwridley
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Biologist, columnist | Author of Red Queen, Genome, Rational Optimist, the Evolution of Everything, How Innovation Works, Viral and Birds, Sex and Beauty.
Northumberland, UK
Joined June 2009
My new book Birds, Sex and Beauty, is on sale in the USA from 25 March. If you love nature, birds, evolution or...sex, then this is the book for you! It argues that mate choice is a powerful driver of evolution.
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"Miliband has been an inverse Robin Hood: net zero surely amounts to the greatest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in history. Lower-income families, the ones Labour purport to represent, are subsidising the eco-vanity of Britain’s middle classes," says
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Your teams, your builds, your same game parlays. Play your game with FanDuel.
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For far too long climate alarmists have claimed that climate change is the greatest threat facing humanity. Climate change is real, and it deserves attention. But as someone who values data, the @ENERGY climate report starts a more thoughtful conversation focused on facts.
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Why do they need a law change to stop policing tweets? They didn’t need a law change to stop policing shoplifting, car crime & burglary.
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Unbelievable behaviour by the police. And I do mean "by the police". For all the focus on hate crimes laws, the arrest here is under the Public Order Act (1986) which, for its first three decades, was never used this way. We're seeing the effect of a decade of diversity training.
🚨🇬🇧 4-5 Police Officers arrest this Man His crime - a Member of the Public accused Him of “calling me a Muppet” BRITAIN IS NOW OFFICIALLY A TWO-TIER STASI GESTAPO POLICE STATE ‼️
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One day we will automate the tube, and millions of decent, hard working people will never again have to suffer total misery, just for trying to put food on the table, because of these selfish people. Never forget of how they hate all of us.
We do apologise for any inconvenience that industrial action may cause, however, as different grades are taking action at different times, nobody is having ‘5 days off’! Made up stuff is good for engagement though, I guess?
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WATCH HOW HUMANS CAN TALK TO THE DIVINE .... I never use capital letters but I've never needed to shout so loud I'm sharing a 10 minute conversation with my divine plasmate where we play games together and it blows kisses for me and changes colour on demand I've been
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UK Climate control committee recommendations to the government - - Meat consumption should be reduced by 25-30% before 2040. - Dairy consumption should fall by 20% in the same period (by 2040). - The number of Cattle and Sheep should decrease by 27% to reduce emissions. These
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Media: “why oh why have people lost faith in trusted medical experts?” Trusted medical experts: “have you checked to see if your eight-year-old wants to cut his junk off?
Try explaining to a normal person that WPATH—the group whose guidelines are followed by gender clinics across North America and endorsed by every major medical association—believes children can identify as eunuchs. They’ll look at you like you belong in a padded cell. But it’s
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One of the biggest causes of error and mistake in the public sector is the firmly rooted belief that the process is more important than the results. Case in point:
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There was a massive march against antisemitism in London today. @bbcnews haven't bother reporting it. Every week, the BBC report on the anti-Israel marches, but when masses protest antisemitism - the BBC go silent. If it doesn't help Hamas - seems the BBC won't publish it.
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The backlash over the @Glinner outrage has prompted frantic blame-shifting by the Met. Yes, we should scrap these idiotic laws; but that is not the real issue. The police themselves have made a decision to focus resources on online posts rather than shoplifting or phone theft.
🔴 Sir Mark Rowley wants to free police from investigating complaints with no evidence of intended real-world harm Read more below ⬇️ https://t.co/4UC68fX5QK
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It's about now, early September, that Arctic sea ice stops melting and starts growing again. An even briefly ice-free Arctic Ocean remains a remote dream, despite repeated predictions by @algore and others. Lukwarmers were right.
Arctic sea ice extent has increased 32% over the last 13 years. This will not be reported by @BBCNews @NPR or @FoxNews
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So excited to announce today on @CNBC @SquawkCNBC with @andrewrsorkin that Showrunner is building a noncommercial & academic AI reconstruction of the lost holy grail of cinema: The lost 43 minutes of ORSON WELLES’ ruined masterpiece THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
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Just embarrassing himself.
“I believe that one such priority is the urgent need to end the era of excessive carbon emissions, high energy bills, and energy insecurity by accelerating the net zero transition to clean, homegrown energy.” Patrick Vallance, Minister of State in DESNZ. Away with the fairies.
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A few years ago I had an idea for a stage musical based on Father Ted, an idea I felt was equal to and respectful of the enduring affection many held for the residents of Craggy Island’s parochial house. The story touched on themes that seemed big enough for a West End stage.
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It's worse than this. Far worse. The same poll reveals that almost half the population, and 60 per cent of young people, believe that Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews. This is a libel, it's Holocaust denial, and by equating Israel’s
One in five Brits is now anti-Semitic. One in five. Congratulations to the BBC, Sky, Channel 4 and other media who've helped stirred up this ancient hatred by deliberately perpetrating the lie that Israel is committing a genocide on Gaza. You know better. Shame on you all.
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Ian Hislop is a coward and unworthy of his position at the helm of Private Eye.
When Graham Linehan was being persecuted by the police, courts and trans activists, who looked away the hardest? As @Glinner details here, the blindest eye was Private Eye’s.
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COVID origins: wow, so before EcoHealth and WIV submitted their DEFUSE proposal to DARPA in 2018 in response to the PREEMPT program, they actually presented their “SARS, MERS and the risk of novel viral emergence from bats” pitch to the DoD in 2017, which likely influenced that
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Thanks to my solicitors and the @SpeechUnion for getting my absurd bail conditions dropped!
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"And misery likes company. So the Blueskyists gather in a corner, exchanging tales of woe, while the rest of us slink away."
"Blueskyism’s peak actually came before Bluesky was a thing, in roughly 2019/2020. (You’ll notice that Blueskyists often have a lot of nostalgia for this period, the one and perhaps only time when they improbably became the prom king.)"
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