1. Never invade Afghanistan This was Britain’s fourth war in Afghanistan – and really the lesson should have been learned after the first one in 1842 when at least 16,000 British servicemen, women, children were butchered, froze to death, or
Say what you like about Owen Jones – it’s not like he’ll notice: he will long since have blocked you on Twitter – but he makes the most admirably formidable performer in TV and radio debates. Fluent, brilliant at interrupting,
Russell Brand – soap-dodger, lech, former husband of the infinitely more talented Katy Perry – is the most irritating person on earth. This much we knew. But I don’t think any of us realised just HOW irritating till his most
If you were listening to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning you might have been forgiven for thinking – not for the first time, probably – that you’d chanced upon a party political broadcast on behalf of the Socialist
Kenny G, the poodle-haired smooth jazz saxophonist, has seriously jeopardized his status as the most popular closing act no one in China has heard of by joining in democracy protests in Hong Kong. Up until today, Kenny G was almost
When is it acceptable for a terrorist to go berserk in a shopping mall and machine gun innocent victims to death? When it’s all being done for the noble cause of environmentalism, of course! Such is the take-home message of
The other day on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions, I made a point which unfortunately went right over the heads of my booing audience. It had to do with the way lefties like my fellow panelists Chuka Umunna MP and
Yesterday on Twitter someone publicly declared that I not only had no brains but no balls either. This remark went to the very heart of my male pride and cut me so deeply that I think I may face sleepless
Last week, I made a silly video featuring the Conservative party’s chief whip Michael Gove. If you haven’t seen it yet then obviously you should because it’s a work of accidental genius. But I do want to stress the accidental
Another day, another “full and unreserved apology” forced on someone in the public eye by the leftist Offence Police. This time the mea maxima culpa comes from a minor government minister called Lord Freud who, apparently, has been caught out
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has been touring the ruins of Gaza. The destruction, he said, is “beyond description” and a “source of shame to the international community.” Is it? Why? Before we try to answer that question, let’s just imagine
Daytime TV presenter Judy Finnigan has been forced to apologise after claiming on ITV’s debate programme Loose Women that an act of rape committed by a footballer was “not violent” and “didn’t cause any bodily harm” to his victim who
I’ve just been re-reading what former Tory MP turned Times and Spectator columnist Matthew Parris wrote in the run-up to the recent by-election in Clacton. It goes some way towards explaining why UKIP won. So much so that, as I
Remember the story of the four kids killed on the beach by Israeli ordnance in Gaza? Of course you do. It was the one that set the tone for the entire media coverage of the summer’s Israel-Gaza conflict. Here was
I wonder whether Shell has yet sacked whichever pillock it was who advised them a few years back to sponsor the Guardian’s ferociously anti-fossil-fuel, anti-capitalist, anti-Shell Environment pages? Knowing the craven, slippery, self-hating ways of Big Oil as I do,
If ever you’ve worried about vanishing Arctic ice, the ‘expert’ almost certainly to blame is a Cambridge professor called Peter Wadhams. For years now, Wadhams has been the go-to doommonger of choice for any newspaper or green pressure group or
Opposing wind farms is “irrational”, claimed Liberal Democrat MP Vince Cable at his party conference yesterday. Actually, no. Here are some reasons why anyone who doesn’t oppose wind farms is most probably either deluded, criminal or insane. 1. Wind turbines
The cause of climate alarmism has been struck another near-fatal blow by a new study from a NASA research team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Using a combination of satellite observations and direct measurements taken by a
Should trolls who say disobliging things about people on Twitter face imprisonment or death? Well the answer is now in and, depressingly, it appears to be “yes”. Today, we read the news that a woman who tweeted under the name
An Englishwoman has taken self-love to its ultimate extreme by marrying herself in an “incredibly empowering” ceremony attended by almost 50 of her friends. Grace Gelder married Grace Gelder earlier this year at an “idyllic farmhouse in rural Devon”. Her
Climate change is even deadlier than ebola according to the editor of one of the world’s oldest and most distinguished medical journals. Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal; established 1840), claims in her
A New York professor has discovered the real reason for the rise and rise of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq: not Islamist fundamentalism, death-cult nihilism or regional power struggles but climate change. Charles B Strozier, Professor of History at
David Cameron has said he thinks schools should teach mainly in imperial measurements rather than in nasty, foreign, and undeniably French metric. Funny that. It’s almost like he’d had spies at the rowdy Conservative conference fringe event the night before
The world’s wildlife population is collapsing – with fewer than half as many wild animals around today as there were in 1970. So claims the WWF (Worldwide Fund for Nature) in its latest headline-grabbing report. Here are some reasons why
