Ed Donald

Humans can't digest cellulose. It passes straight through us. Grass is 30-40% cellulose. 70% of Earth's agricultural land grows grass and not much else. Without ruminants, 70% of agricultural land produces zero human food. Cattle are the only way to convert that grass into…

Merry Christmas and thank you to all those who have followed my work over the last year. While celebrating at my home in Kent, I’ve been thinking about what this season really means, and how it might relate to the ideas I talk about it on David Starkey Talks. I was raised as a…

Without wishing to dox myself, I've been integrally involved in many of the largest infrastructure projects and housing programmes in the UK, so I know of what I speak. The UK has taken upon itself a growing fetish with accessibility and diversity within construction, which has…

I like having a Prime Minister who throws Downing Street parties for public sector workers, unlike the one whose regime presided over illegal parties for coked-up Tory toddler advisors whilst health workers were dying to save others.

Scotland's Rewilding Failure 2003: Environmental groups celebrate a major victory in the Scottish Highlands. Large tracts of land are designated for "rewilding." The goal is to restore the landscape to "natural" conditions. Step one: Remove the sheep and cattle that have been…

This speech, made this evening, may be of interest to those who prefer a fact-based, rather than an emotion-based, approach to the economy

This will be a tough weekend for the Chancellor. She knew almost six weeks before the Budget from the OBR there was no ‘black hole’. Yet she and the Treasury still stoked up the idea that there was — and it would take big tax rises to fill it. By Oct 31 she knew from the OBR…

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Every time I hear the debate between English identity and multiculturalism, I’m deeply confused. Multiculturalism essentially means that “Englishness” is an empty vessel in which cultures live together, that the vessel of being a country is neutral and empty of content. There’s…

Rod Liddle in typically acerbic form for this week’s Spectator cover story on the BBC: “… an organisation in utter denial … Nick Robinson, puffed up with even more pompous self-regard than normal, treating Today listeners to a psychedelic monologue in which he disappeared down…

Andrew Neil’s superb monologue after the Bataclan terrorist attack in Paris. Ten years on: - The BBC wouldn’t air it now. - Islamist politics has gone mainstream — the method’s changed, the mission hasn’t. The "scumbags" are now MPs.

I see a lot of commentary about our conversation with Dave Smith. Many people loved an honest exchange of contrary opinions. Some are upset Dave came on our show and "won't watch it". Some are upset we had him on our show "won't watch it". I saw one post saying Dave embarrassed…

I am actually a huge fan of the BBC or at least what it used to be. This recent scandal and the new information that is being revealed about BBC bias on other matters such as immigration, gender ideology etc explain very clearly why our country is where it is. The simple fact is…

Although I am apolitical, I enjoy political debate and joined Twitter for the modern equivalent. It now appears that I have gone back in time to the days of the hustings, when a politician got up on his soapbox and the crowd pelted him with rotten fruit.

This morning I received a letter notifying me of my Winter Fuel Allowance of £300. I don’t need this support but since so much of my energy bill is already being spent on projects which are, in my opinion, sheer folly, I think I will donate this sum to my local hospice.

An absolute must watch. Energy bosses have just told Parliament that EVEN IF gas prices halved by 2030, the soaring policy costs of renewables would mean bills go UP. Ed Miliband’s plan means more grid, more expensive renewable subsidies, more paying wind farms to turn off.

We Had a Chance to End the Conflict and We Chose to Burn It. In 2005, something historic happened. Israel withdrew completely from Gaza - not just its soldiers, but also all of its civilians, farms, and settlements. Thousands of Israeli families were uprooted from their homes by…

14th October, 2007 Lance Corporal Sarah Holmes, aged 26 from Wantage, of 29 Postal Courier and Movement Regiment died at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, from wounds sustained in a road traffic accident at Al Udeid, Qatar, 11 days earlier Lest we Forget this brave young lady🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

🔴 Rubio states that Peace Talks broke down because of people like Macron and Starmer deciding to reward Hamas with a Palestinian State. Starmer, Macron, Carney, Albanese - hang your heads in shame.

Thomas Midgley Jr. is widely regarded as the most unfortunate inventor in history; with leaded petrol and then CFCs. Could his political equivalent be Gordon Brown? He sold the gold, raided pensions, increased the use of PFI, and raised stamp duty. Quite a record.