James Delingpole

Denying climate change is like saying the moon is made of cheese, President Obama has said in his latest attempt to persuade an unconvinced world that “global warming” is the most urgent crisis of our time. Obama was speaking to

Here is the Obama administration’s green strategy reduced to one damning equation. 19 million jobs lost plus $4.335 trillion spent = a reduction in global mean temperature of 0.018 degrees C. Yes. Horrifying but true. These are the costs to

Climate McCarthyism has claimed another victim. Dr Caleb Rossiter – an adjunct professor at American University, Washington DC – has been fired by a progressive think tank after publicly expressing doubt about man-made global warming. Rossiter, a former Democratic congressional

OK, here’s a tough one. Which of these, would you say, is the superior culture? Culture A Produced Purcell, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vermeer, Shakespeare, Goethe, Moliere, Jane Austen, Newton, Wren, Darwin, Einstein, Watson & Crick, Magna Carta,

What kind of government would try to foist on one quarter of its population a drug which, at great public expense and for no seriously justifiable benefit, risked turning its users into diabetics, depressives and sufferers of chronic fatigue and

The cause of climate alarmism has suffered yet another devastating setback: new research suggests that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is not, after all disappearing due to man-made global warming, but because it has a volcano underneath. For years, the

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has come up with an exciting new theory as to why the world’s economies are still proving reluctant to bomb themselves back to the dark ages in order to “combat climate change.” Apparently, it’s

To anyone born at the tail end of the Baby Boom generation, the death of comic Rik Mayall is going to come as an almighty blow. When Not The Nine O’Clock News’s Mel Smith keeled over last year at 60

How long do you think a white teacher would last in a British primary school if he were to tell his class of seven-year olds that all non-Christians were “filthy heathens”? Or if he referred to black people using the

Animal rights activists are campaigning to get Metallica banned from headlining this year’s Glastonbury festival because the singer James Hetfield supports bear hunting and is a member of the National Rifle Association.  The festival, in Pilton, Somerset, is very probably the

I’ve sometimes thought it a misnomer to refer to the veterans of World War II as the “Greatest Generation.” The reverence may be justified but I’m uncomfortable with the sly implication that those who took part were somehow possessed of

A group of over fifty lecturers and professors has written to the Guardian newspaper in support of fracking and shale gas exploitation in the abundant Bowland Shale in North-East England. They argue: Globally high prices for commodities and recent innovations

1. You never appreciate what you’ve got until you lose it At school in Britain in the Eighties – a private school, full of kids with the kind of parents who ought to have been four-square behind the Reagan revolution

Today is the Newark by-election and however well UKIP and its candidate Roger Helmer do in their attempts to overturn the Conservatives’ vast majority, one thing is clear: UKIP are now well past the stage when they can be dismissed

Alexander Shulgin, pioneering psychedelic pharmacologist, has died – and those of us who were there at the birth of rave salute him. Shulgin did not invent MDMA – aka Ecstasy – which was first created by the Swiss pharmaceuticals firm

A bunch of self-important luvvies has signed a letter calling for a moratorium on Britain’s barely nascent fracking industry. (H/T Bishop Hill) The list of contributors is like a Who’s Who from Hell. They include: Michael Mansfield QC – champagne

“Feeding the masses on unicorn ribs”. That was how Walter Russell Mead once poured scorn on Obama’s misbegotten attempts to revive the US economy by creating five million “green jobs.” Mead was quite right, of course. And there was plenty

Britain is turning into a third world country. If you want to know how and why, consider three of the ongoing scandals that continued to fester over the weekend. The first concerns allegations of vote-rigging in London borough of Tower

A footballer you haven’t heard of has been forced to apologise after suggesting on television that some women are more attractive than others and that if four girls were political parties the least ugly one would be UKIP. I’m very grateful

On this week’s Radio Free Delingpole podcast I discuss with Peter Foster of Canada’s Financial Post an issue which has long puzzled me: the liberal-left’s extraordinary capacity for cognitive dissonance. Or, if you want to put it more bluntly, for

Go on to Google today and you’ll see a charming illustration celebrating the life and work of environmentalist Rachel Carson. There’s a turtle and a pelican and a crab and a delightful seal in an idyllic landscape of flowers and

Education Secretary Michael Gove has supposedly “banned” classic works of American literature, including Of Mice And Men and The Catcher In The Rye from the new schools English curriculum. It’s in all the papers so it must be true. But it’s

A quip which has been doing the rounds on Twitter the last few days concerns the official projection of how many seats UKIP stands to win in Westminster next year, based on its stellar performance in the local and European

Thomas Piketty – house economist of the Occupy movement – has been rumbled. Ever since the publication earlier this year of his doorstopper treatise Capital in the Twenty-First Century – the French economist has been adulated as the poster boy