Rishi Sunak is considering weakening some of the government's key green commitments in a major policy shift.

It could include delaying a ban on the sales of new petrol and diesel cars and phasing out gas boilers, multiple sources have told the BBC.

The PM is preparing to set out the changes in a speech in the coming days.

 Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has been exploring opening taxpayer-funded, city-owned grocery stores in areas where businesses have already closed down due to rampant crime. The mayor is partnering with the Economic Security Project, an ideas advocacy organization that claims to build economic power for all Americans, to "brainstorm" the possibility of operating these local government-controlled groceries.

 The royal family of the United Kingdom has officially been banned from a 175-year-old tradition of deer stalking, fishing or hunting at the five-century-old Abergeldie Estate in Scotland.

 At least one American has been captured and detained by the Taliban for allegedly promoting Christianity in Afghanistan as part of a long-standing NGO that has worked in the country.

 An internet watchdog is speaking out about the alarming trend of pedophiles working together online to use open-source artificial intelligence to create child sexual abuse material.

 Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat who took office earlier this year, has announced that she will issue an executive order to prohibit state agencies from buying single-use plastic bottles.

 Former college swimmer Riley Gaines highlighted the utter absurdity of radical leftist gender ideology after someone made the oft-repeated, preposterous claim that transgender women are women.

 Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia, 55, has announced that she will retire from Congress after serving her current term.

 Surveillance video captured the terrifying moments when a darkly clothed, hooded, masked individual got behind the counter of a Seattle-area gas station market Friday night and relentlessly punched, stomped, and kicked the female cashier.

 General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, insisted that he was not sure what the word “woke” means.

The effectiveness of the fourth Covid vaccine dose against death was around zero, a new analysis of official ONS data by top public health scientist Professor Eyal Shahar shows.

Things are not going well in Germany’s bid to reach Net Zero by 2045, says Ross Clark, with the scramble to back out of green economic self-harm becoming more and more frantic as reality hits.

Antarctica sea ice is at a “mind-blowing” record low winter area of 17 million square kilometres, reports a three-person BBC “News Climate & Science and Data Journalism Team”, as lower levels than those recorded in the recent past provide the cue for yet more media climate hysteria. Of course, the BBC headline is clickbait nonsense, not least because it has been generally known in scientific circles that early NASA Nimbus satellites showed even lower winter levels around 15 million sq. kms in 1966. But the BBC story does provide an excellent example of how science is twisted to fit the political narrative supporting the collectivist Net Zero agenda.

 Philadelphia passed a bill last week banning supervised drug consumption sites across most of the city in the latest attempt by a Democrat-run city to curb rampant public drug use.

 A suspect was arrested on Monday in connection to the fatal shooting of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer over the weekend.

 After news broke that President Biden’s son Hunter had filed a lawsuit against the IRS, IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley’s legal team issued a statement condemning the action.

 A grand jury has indicted a Massachusetts mother who allegedly strangled her three young children.

 Hunter Biden sued the IRS on Monday over alleged violations of his privacy when agents went to Congress with details of the agency’s investigation into Biden’s taxes.

 Conservative podcast host and journalist Megyn Kelly was not impressed with former President Donald Trump’s answer to her question on transgenderism during her sit-down with Trump last week. 

Vandals were out in force once again yesterday, with one camera being covered in expanding foam while elsewhere a man held a anti-ULEZ sign on top of ladder trying to block a camera's view.

It comes weeks after Sadiq Khan expanded his controversial policy to cover the whole of London - clobbering thousands more drivers with a £12.50 charge.

Ray Epps – a key January 6th figure who has bizarrely escaped justice for years despite admitting to having “orchestrated” much of it – has finally been charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

The charging document states:

On or about January 6, 2021, within the District of Columbia, JAMES RAY EPPS, SR. did knowingly, and with intent to impede and disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions, engage in disorderly and disruptive conduct in and within such proximity to, a restricted building and grounds—that is, any posted, cordoned-off, and otherwise restricted area within the United States Capitol and its grounds, where the Vice President was and would be temporarily visiting—when and so that such conduct did in fact impede and disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions, and attempted and conspired to do so. (Disorderly or Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1752(a)(2)).

Webmaster addition: In other words, a symbolic wrist slap!

Azerbaijan has launched what it has called an 'anti-terrorist operation' targeting Armenian military positions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, sparking fears a full-scale war may be on the horizon. 

The Azerbaijani defence ministry announced the start of the operation hours after four soldiers and two civilians died in landmine explosions in the region which is disputed by Azerbaijan and Armenia. 

 Michigan State University officials on Monday delivered a notice of termination to the school’s head football coach Mel Tucker after a prominent rape survivor and activist recently accused him of sexual harassment during a phone call.

 Amidst duel crises of illegal immigration and rising drug overdoses, Massachusetts Democratic Governor Maura Healey has decided to crack down on the real culprit of the Bay State’s problems: Single-use plastic bottles.

 The U.S. Marines ordered a two-day stand-down of aviation units during the search for a missing F-35 stealth fighter jet, according to a new report.

 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticized the U.S. Senate on Monday after the chamber of Congress eliminated its dress code for lawmakers over the weekend, appearing to accommodate Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman.

According to government figures, 99,939 people sought asylum in the UK in 2022. 

In contrast the number making initial applications for Germany was over 243,000, while France saw 156,000 and Spain around 117,000, according to Eurostat.

Austria also had more asylum seekers at 112,000 - although Italy's total of 84,300 was lower than Britain.

In total, EU27 countries had more than 965,000 asylum seekers in 2022, up from 677,000 in 2017. 

The figures do not cover most arrivals from Ukraine, with the UK and EU countries operating separate visa routes.

A suspect was arrested on Monday in connection to the fatal shooting of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer over the weekend.

Kevin Salazar, 29, was detained in the morning following an hours-long standoff at the suspect’s residence in Palmdale, California, Sheriff Robert Luna announced in a press conference.

“We are extremely confident we have the right person in custody,” Luna said, adding that he did not believe there were any other suspects, though he noted that the investigation is ongoing ahead of an expected prosecution. A motive was not immediately known.

Authorities said Clinkunbroomer, 30, was “ambushed” on Saturday evening while driving in his cruiser near the Palmdale sheriff’s station.

A “Good Samaritan” discovered him unconscious in his vehicle and contacted Palmdale station personnel, after which Clinkunbroomer was transported to Antelope Valley Medical Center, where staff worked to treat the deputy for a gunshot wound but ultimately he succumbed to his injuries, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.