James Delingpole

Girlguiding – Britain’s answer to the Girl Scouts – has launched a new badge designed to boost Girl Guides’ self esteem. It’s called the “Free To Be Me” badge. To earn the badge, Girl Guides between 10 and 14 will

The campaign for greater press regulation in Britain has suffered a devastating, possibly fatal blow with the release to the Guardian of a list of the celebrities who are lending their support to the Leveson Royal Charter proposal. “Wankers. Faarsands

The American Physical Society (APS) has signalled a dramatic turnabout in its position on “climate change” by appointing three notorious climate skeptics to its panel on public affairs (POPA). They are: Professor Richard Lindzen, formerly Alfred P Sloan Professor of

One of the great green urban myths is that extreme weather events are on the increase. To prove it, environmentalists like to cite reports by ‘independent’ industry sources such as the big reinsurance company Munich Re, which show that the

British television is still far too white, the black comedian Lenny Henry has argued at this year’s BAFTA television lecture. The programmes he singled out as examples of this woeful failing include Broadchurch, Miranda, and Midsomer Murders. Which is a

Michael Gove is by some distance the most brilliant and effective member of David Cameron’s Cabinet. All right: so maybe this is a bit like being the fastest downhill ski-racer in Jamaica, or the greatest military hero in Italy, or

The National Trust is one of Britain’s best-loved charities – as quintessentially English as tea (out of a proper pot, of course) and scones, as much a part of our heritage furniture as Stourhead (which it owns) or Lundy island

Scientists who don’t believe in catastrophic man-made global warming should be put in prison, a US philosophy professor argues on a website funded by the UK government. Lawrence Torcello – assistant professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, NY,

What do you call a pop diva whose demands (allegedly) include the following when she’s on tour? All crew members have to wear 100% cotton. Alkaline water must be chilled to 21 degrees and served with $900 titanium straws. Bathrooms

The only time I met the late trade union leader Bob Crow was when we appeared together on BBC Any Questions. Before the show I researched what I thought would be the killer point which would floor him completely: the

One of the biggest divisions in the conservative movement right now is how to respond to Vladimir Putin’s aggression in the Ukraine. On the one hand are the neo-cons who apparently want to flex America’s muscles and open a new

The planet is not in danger of catastrophic man made global warming. Even if we burn all the world’s recoverable fossil fuels it will still only result in a temperature rise of less than 1.2 degrees C. So say The

This week the environmental movement suffered its biggest defeat since Climategate. And at the hands of its most hated enemy: Big Oil. Here are the reasons why the court ruling by a US federal judge that Chevron should not have

Some foolish commentators have been suggesting that the West has no interest in provoking another major conflagration in the Crimea. Have we not learned the lessons of the disastrous conflict 160 years ago which saw the deaths of 25,000 British

Britain is threatened by the “largest migratory wave in its history” – and its three main parties are doing nothing about it – warned UKIP leader Nigel Farage, as he put immigration at the heart of his party’s campaign strategy

Climate change will lead to an orgy of killing, looting, rape and burglary, says a new report. Wow! Better tell John Brignell at Numberwatch.  In case you haven’t seen his site, it purports to provide “A complete list of all

Irish comedian Dara Ó Briain has criticised the BBC’s politically correct decision to impose gender quotas on its comedy panel shows. Among the reasons he gives is that, like all quota systems, it harms the very people it is supposed to