The BBC Trust is worried about the relatively small number of BAME listeners who tune in to BBC’s over-35s station Radio 2. (BAME, by the way, is the latest PC term for people who aren’t white. It stands for Black
I’d been meaning to write today about why Oxford University should divest itself of one of its zoology graduates. But I’m afraid that will have to wait because I’ve just read today’s Guardian cover story and have realised that the
Perhaps you’ve seen it on Twitter: the line from the Australian Daily Telegraph that the subs should have spotted but didn’t – with presumably dire consequences for the author responsible. Except, as Mark Steyn points out, this isn’t what actually
How much do you think Britain’s amazing, selfless, tireless, angelic nurses should be paid for the incredible work they do caring for sick people in our National Health Service hospitals? Should it be a) a thousand pounds an hour b)
Suppose you were a shareholder in a leading international fast food chain – McDonalds, say – and the company’s new director of products announced that in the nutritional interests of the customers he’d now decided that, for their own good,
The Global Warming Policy Foundation has published a transcript of an exchange between Lord Lawson and Bank of England governor Mark Carney at the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee. Three things are clear. 1. The Canadian import Carney cannot
Nigel Farage broke down in tears on TV the other day as he described how his children had been bullied just because their dad was Nigel Farage. I do hope you find this as shocking and depressing as I do.
Today, we learn from the New Republic, a delegation of six schoolkids is visiting Washington DC with a view to educating Republican senators including Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz about the reality of global warming. Let
I promised I’d leave it to Christopher Booker to give chapter and verse on what was wrong, scientifically, with the BBC’s latest desperate attempt to promulgate the cause of climate change alarmism. The programme – Climate Change By Numbers –
Scientists and journalists who mislead the public about ‘global warming’ should be banned from television. So says the producer of a highly tendentious and misleading new eco-propaganda movie about global warming, apparently blissfully unaware of the irony of his position.
Tonight on BBC4 you have another chance to see the BBC’s latest propaganda effort on behalf of the climate change alarmism lobby. It’s called Climate Change By Numbers and I reviewed it, briefly, in the Spectator. Its arguments went something
I’ve been reading the official report into the latest Muslim rape gang atrocity – in Oxford, this time, city of dreaming spires and the kind of place you’d never imagine such appalling crimes possible over such a period of time
Today I have a piece in the Mail attacking the EU’s plans to ban halogen light bulbs, possibly by as soon as next year. This is not because I love halogen light bulbs: they’re a bugger to change, they get
Here’s something I once wrote on BBC Bias. On any given subject you know exactly what the BBC’s line will be. If it’s covering the Middle East it will be bigging up the gallant Hezbollah freedom fighters and the plucky
Today, as I’m sure you know, is International Polar Bear Day. And I’m afraid the news is bad… …Bad news, that is, for all those environmentalists from David Attenborough downwards who have spent the last few years assiduously bigging up
Here’s a piece by some angry bearded person at the Daily Beast which will annoy you. It’s titillatingly headlined Armageddon For Climate Deniers, which leads you to expect that perhaps, at long last, the alarmist establishment and their media propagandists
Rod Liddle raises an interesting question in his latest Spectator blogpost: Are you terribly worried about those three London ‘schoolgirls’ who have gone off to fight for the Islamic State in Syria? His answer: I must admit I haven’t lost
So Rajendra Pachauri has finally announced his resignation from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – a decision at once momentous and spectacularly irrelevant. It’s momentous because the IPCC is one of the world’s most powerful organisations, with presidents
There are many reasons to celebrate Eddie Redmayne’s Oscar last night – from his charming and refreshingly brief acceptance speech to the fact that the award didn’t go to Benedict “This is what a feminist looks like” Cumberbatch – but
Another day, another attack on the integrity of the Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon, this time in the New York Times.
Oh great. A new manifesto arguing for “compassionate conservatism.” Only this time, the authors have hit on the ingenious variant “The Good Right.” I’d love to tell Tim Montgomerie and Stephan Shakespeare exactly what I think of their limp-wristed apologia
Imagine a Britain in which we were all free to carry licensed firearms. Most of us can’t because, thanks to the pervasive cultural influence of organisations like the BBC, we’ve been brainwashed into thinking that this is the sort of
If you care at all about the future of quality journalism, you really should read Peter Oborne’s letter resigning his post as Chief Political Commentator of the Daily Telegraph. He doesn’t pull his punches, my favourite bit being where he
Quick! Whip out your onions at once and shed a tear for the world’s most distinguished former railway engineer Dr Rajendra Pachauri. The jet-setting, cricket-loving, ice-shunning, meat-spurning, troll-impersonating chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has become accidentally
The story so far: devastated by universally appalling reviews of its dreadful farrago of lefty nonsense UKIP: The First Hundred Days, Channel 4 has reluctantly agreed to make another, counterbalancing political mockumentary, a much more realistic one this time, called
