The Weekly Forum - 15 May 2026

It seems like the ‘boiling planet’ (to quote Ursula von der Leyen) is …, well, going off the boil. Years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the notorious ‘hockey stick’ graph, which was debunked at the time but which continues to mislead people into thinking there has been a sudden and unprecedented rise in world temperatures. Now,  one of its sub-committees has published a new prediction for climate change which describes the high end of the earlier predictions as ‘implausible’. This means that the horror scenarios on which climate policy has been based have been abandoned. FVD has long campaigned against the climate madness which imposes huge costs on the economy in the name of a chimera. Now is the time to wake up from the nightmare!

Read FVD’s article here

Lidewij de Vos, FVD’s parliamentary leader, has therefore immediately written to the Dutch government to ask what it is going to do about this downward revision of the global warming predictions. 80% of media coverage has been based on these worst-case scenarios now denounced as implausible. Moreover, government policy – and the public support for it, to the extent that this exists – also assumes the plausibility of these scenarios. Naturally, people want to avoid extreme weather events but if they are now ‘implausible’, the very assumptions from which all this flows are invalid. Will the government take note of this and change its policy? Don’t hold your breath.

Read Lidewij de Vos’ questions here

John Laughland was once again a guest on “The Protagonists”, a daily broadcast of News Talk’s “World Today”, to discuss “The European Union, a dying star”. The fellow guest was John’s old friend, Professor Richard Sakwa of the University of Kent. They discussed all the structural weaknesses not just of the EU but also of its member states, who seem exclusively preoccupied with narrative control but not with actual reality. Richard Sakwa emphasised the essential point, which is that the EU is itself part of a wider problem, the ‘Atlantic community’ created after the last world war, and it is precisely that larger grouping which is also in terminal decline.

Watch John Laughland’s interview here

Two internet superstars were our guests on The Forum this week, Glenn Diesen, a Norwegian academic who runs the very successful Greater Eurasia Project podcast, and Ian Proud, a former UK diplomat who has recently launched The Peacemonger. They discussed the murmurings from inside the corridors of Brussels suggesting that now is the time to start talking to Russia. If you missed it, watch it by clicking below.

Watch The Forum here