
So Telegraph blogs is finally to close. To no one’s great surprise, I would imagine. Some of us, certainly, will have seen the writing on the wall in recent Telegraph blogposts like these: Tom Chivers: Why Global Warming Is More
by James Delingpole1 Dec 2014, 6:03 AM PST0

Australia’s national broadcaster ABC has reportedly been staging brutal, Hunger-Games-style contests in order to decide which of its excess staff are for the chop. If this is the plan I don’t think it’s going to work. The people at ABC
by James Delingpole29 Nov 2014, 2:05 AM PST0

Ex-Python John Cleese has admitted on Bill Maher’s show something which his fellow comedians generally won’t: that the reason they don’t make jokes about Islam is that they’re frightened of being killed. “The problem is if you make jokes about
by James Delingpole28 Nov 2014, 9:08 AM PST0

David Cameron has talked a good game in his speech today on immigration and Britain’s relationship with the EU. He had to, obviously, because if he hadn’t pulled something out of the hat everyone who hasn’t already left the Conservative
by James Delingpole28 Nov 2014, 4:18 AM PST0

Britain’s wealthiest wind farm developer has said he can no longer afford to apply to put up any more turbines because the Conservatives have now stacked the planning process against him. And if that sounds like good news, you haven’t
by James Delingpole26 Nov 2014, 2:42 AM PST0

Check out these arses. Not just any old arses, either, but proper, educated Cambridge University arses. On a miserable, cold day in which I have been laid low with man flu, these pert buttocks have restored my faith in the
by James Delingpole25 Nov 2014, 6:06 AM PST0

Today Owen Paterson declared war on the Vichy wing of the Conservative party by telling them exactly like it is: Britain’s ongoing membership of the EU is a disaster; we’d be much better off out; the only reason we ever
by James Delingpole25 Nov 2014, 1:01 AM PST0

Some people call it “renewable energy” but I prefer to call it “alternative energy” because that’s what it really is: an alternative to energy that actually works (eg nuclear and anything made from wonderful, energy-rich fossil fuel.) Now a pair
by James Delingpole22 Nov 2014, 5:17 AM PST0

It doesn’t matter what you think of Mark Reckless. It doesn’t even matter what you think of UKIP. Whether you love them or hate them their victory last night in the Rochester and Strood by-election was a victory for (almost)
by James Delingpole21 Nov 2014, 2:34 AM PST0

Is it just my imagination or was there a widely publicised report a few weeks ago by a professor called Alexis Jay describing in clinical detail how at least 1400 mostly underage girls were groomed, drugged and raped over a
by James Delingpole20 Nov 2014, 5:04 AM PST0

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the passing of one of the most iniquituous, divisive and unnecessary pieces of legislation in recent parliamentary history: the 2004 Hunting Act, which effectively made hunting with hounds illegal in Britain. Here are ten
by James Delingpole18 Nov 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

Why does the monumentally tedious soap-dodging pseud Russell Brand still sell so many books? Why is Ed Miliband, a man with the charisma of used dental floss and the intellectual nuance of Hugo Chavez, still seriously in the running to
by James Delingpole17 Nov 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

Britain’s experimental badger cull has been a surprising success. Not that you’d guess this from any of the headlines in the papers. They’re all focusing on the official figures showing that for each 1,879 badgers shot by marksmen last year
by James Delingpole15 Nov 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

Today at Breitbart London our correspondent Virginia Hale has written a superb defence of the notorious comedian Dapper Laughs – a man whom none of us had heard of at the beginning of the week, but is now all over
by James Delingpole13 Nov 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

“The people at the UK Energy Research Centre, they’ve nothing against this in principle, they’re in the business of finding alternative sources of energy, so they’re not people who are coming at this from a position of ingrained opposition….” Thus
by James Delingpole12 Nov 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

When is it wrong for a child to be taught discipline, responsibility and a love and understanding of the traditional ways of British country life? When that lesson involves guns and game fowl, apparently. Hence the story in today’s Daily
by James Delingpole10 Nov 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

There are many reasons to celebrate the Republican party surge in the US mid-term elections but for me they boil down to two words: “Tom” and “Steyer.” If you had to pick one person who embodied everything that is most
by James Delingpole6 Nov 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

According to some interpretations of the Koran, homosexuality is second only to murder and raping a man is actually worse than killing him. So I don’t much fancy Britain’s chances of deporting Moktar Ali Saad Mahmoud (33) and Ibrahim Abogutila
by James Delingpole5 Nov 2014, 4:55 AM PST0

Left-wing comedian Frankie Boyle has written an article in the left-wing Guardian explaining to his amen corner of left-wing readers that all his left-wing contemporaries who play left-wing comedy sets at left-wing comedy clubs, perform on left-wing TV panel shows
by James Delingpole4 Nov 2014, 2:26 AM PST0

Climate change is real, predominantly man-made and more urgent a threat than ever before, claims the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “Science has spoken. There is no ambiguity in their message. Leaders must act. Time is
by James Delingpole3 Nov 2014, 1:04 AM PST0

Earlier this week, the Met Office invited us to celebrate the fact that we had allowed to be siphoned from our pockets the £97 million it allegedly needed to build a new super-computer to “produce the most scientifically accurate short-term
by James Delingpole2 Nov 2014, 6:23 AM PST0

A few weeks ago I spent most of an afternoon glued to my computer screen watching Keith Vaz MP leading the Home Affairs Select Committee investigation into the Rotherham child-rape-gang scandal. I had only meant to watch for a few
by James Delingpole1 Nov 2014, 2:01 AM PST0

“There is no significant man-made global warming at this time, there has been none in the past and there is no reason to fear any in the future,” declared John Coleman, veteran meteorologist and founder of the Weather Channel, last
by James Delingpole30 Oct 2014, 8:15 AM PST0

By “the Establishment” I don’t, of course, mean the toffee-nosed, elitist right-wing conspiracy which exists largely in the perfervid imaginations of Russell Brand and Owen Jones. I mean the new progressive Establishment which has dominated the cultural and political argument
by James Delingpole29 Oct 2014, 5:40 AM PST0

A British government minister has come up with possibly the best explanation yet for the planet’s stubborn failure to show any sign of “global warming” since 1998. Apparently it’s a sign that Britain’s climate policies are working. Baroness Verma, a
by James Delingpole28 Oct 2014, 9:05 AM PST0