It would be quite wrong to attribute the Isla Vista killings to the work of a lone madman, a U.S. feminist author argues today in the pages of the UK Guardian. The real reason, says Jessica Valenti, is much simpler:
Chip Bergh, the CEO of Levi Strauss has not washed his jeans in over a year. Why do we need to know this revolting fact? Interviewed at Fortune’s Brainstorm Green Conference, Bergh admitted it “sounds totally disgusting” but insisted “I
Nigel Farage has often cast himself as the “Heir to Thatcher.” Today he and his party demonstrated it, not so much in the votes they have attracted from disgruntled Tories as in the ones they got from working class voters
1. UKIP are not just the “Conservative party in exile.” Some of their most significant winnings have been in the industrial north, in towns like Rotherham. Like Margaret Thatcher they have galvanised the working classes – see also their success
Many of America’s most iconic monuments and breakfast cereals are threatened by climate change, according to two new reports produced by “experts.” According to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), an advocacy group, no fewer than 30 heritage sites across
The author of a much-quoted 1975 Newsweek article predicting catastrophic global cooling now says it was a big mistake and the earth was warming all along. (H/T Climate Depot) Peter Gwynne, began his piece by declaring portentously: “There are ominous
“Try as I might, I cannot remember a time when Britain’s various elites were as united in fury as they are now over UKIP leader Nigel Farage.” Brendan O’Neill is right. I can’t either. Outside Breitbart London you can count
US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned students that if they don’t take climate more seriously they will be jeopardising the future of the planet. Speaking at the graduation ceremony of his alma mater Boston College, he said: “If
Just three per cent of Americans consider “the environment” the most important problem, according to the latest Gallup poll. (In Britain, too, people appear to be decreasingly worried about climate change). This surely represents, by some margin, the biggest PR
“Vote Blue, Go Green”. It seemed like such a handy slogan when the Conservatives first introduced it in 2006. Not only would it “detoxify the brand” and wrong-foot the opposition, but it would also remind people of the party’s natural
The Coalition has been branded a “zombie government” for taking an early break this week, apparently on the grounds of having insufficient new bills to debate. According to Shadow Commons leader Angela Eagle, it’s a sign that “this government hasn’t
Here is a viewpoint I think you ought to read. It’s by someone to whose politically correct idiocies you ought never, ever to have been exposed in your entire life. But unfortunately – a bit like the cockroaches that inherit
When is a rape not a rape? When it’s a metaphor, of course. Everyone knows this. Anyone with half a brain and an ounce of sense, at least. They know, say, that when your victorious village rugger team boasts down
Professor Lennart Bengtsson – the leading scientist who three weeks ago signalled his defection to the climate sceptic camp by joining the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation – has now dramatically been forced to resign from his position.
Why is the Queen lending the monarchy’s good name to a hard-left animal rights organisation which is now apparently more interested in harrying pet owners, persecuting fox hunters and criticising meat eaters than it is in its traditional role of
Nick Clegg is “self obsessed, dishonest and revolting”. So says Education Secretary Michael Gove’s former special adviser Dominic Cummings, and I doubt there are many here present who would disagree with that assessment – except perhaps to say that it
Himalayan glaciers – for years one of the poster children of the “man-made global warming is real and we’re all doomed” movement – are in no imminent danger whatsoever, a new study has found. (h/t GWPF and Watts Up With
Britain’s Guardian newspaper has come up with a novel explanation for the kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria. (h/t Marc Morano) Conventional analyses have pinned the blame on the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram (which means: “Western education is
Charles Krauthammer thinks that “climate change” (the political concept as opposed to the natural phenomenon) is like a religious myth. “It’s the oldest superstition around,” he said on Fox News this week. “It was in the Old Testament, it’s in
One of the world’s most eminent climate scientists – for several decades a warmist – has defected to the climate sceptic camp. Lennart Bengtsson – a Swedish climatologist, meteorologist, former director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg
CNN has just produced a list of “Five Things You Can Do About Climate Change”. They are: Become Informed; Make Changes At Home; Be Greener At The Office; Reduce Emissions In Transit; Get Involved And Educate Others About The Big
Attempts to stem sea level rises by reducing CO2 levels in order to “combat” global warming are a complete waste of time says a new report by two of the world’s leading oceanographic scientists. Over the last 150 years, average global
On the day the Jeremy Clarkson “N” word story broke, I was sitting with friends of the same age in their kitchen, trying to remember when it was that the children’s choosing rhyme “Eeny meeny minie mo” (or however you
