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Delingpole: The NHS Is 70. Time to Put It out of Its Misery

Britain has been celebrating the 70th birthday of the National Health Service (NHS) with services in Westminster Abbey, a specially commissioned symphony, eulogies from government ministers, and endless hagiographies on the BBC.

LIVINGSTON, SCOTLAND - JUNE 29: Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party, addresses a NHS

Delingpole: Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon Project Nixed. Good!

Finally, the UK government has rejected the £1.3 billion Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon Project. This is a tremendous victory for common sense, for the environment, and for the hapless energy users who would have been subsidising this massive white elephant for many decades to come.

LONDON - DECEMBER 08: Climate change protestors carry surf boards near Trafalgar Square on

Delingpole: Meet Liz Truss – Your New Favourite Red Meat Conservative

Do you like the meat in your hamburgers pink in the middle? Look, I’m not judging you if you don’t. If you like your burgers tough, chewy, tasteless, sterile, then you go, girl! All I’m saying is that for those of us in Nanny State Britain who like their burgers underdone properly (ie pink in the middle) these are difficult times.

LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 05: Chief Secretary to the Treasury Elizabeth Truss arrives for a C

Delingpole: Snowflake University Scared by Rommel Quotation

One of Britain’s leading universities has gone into a blind panic after discovering that a quotation it had used to motivate students originally came from the mouth of an actual World War II German general, Erwin Rommel.

circa 1942: Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (1891 - 1944) (on left) with Captain Aldinger. Romm

Delingpole: Shock! Antarctica Still Doing Just Great

Antarctic melting faster than evah! This has been the global warming scare story of the week, heavily promoted by the usual suspects, including Time, CBS, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the New York Times and, inevitably, the BBC.

Mountains stand near the coast of West Antarctica as seen from a window of a NASA Operatio

Green Nightmare: Germany’s Clean Energy Flops While Global Fossil Fuels Boom…

Germany, epicentre of global environmentalism, is losing faith in the green dream. Its energy minister has admitted that it will fall some way short of its 2020 climate targets and that voters are weary of the renewable energy projects which in Germany alone cost taxpayers around €25 billion per year.

BONN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 04: Climate change activists march to demonstrate against coal en

Delingpole: Epic Renewables Fail as Solar Crashes and Wind Refuses to Blow

Don’t laugh too hard but this has been a terrible week for the renewable energy dream. Across the world solar energy share prices have crashed. This was caused by a sudden and unexpected decision by China, the world’s biggest solar manufacturer and user, to rein in subsidies.

department of energy

Delingpole: The Martyrdom of Tommy Robinson

Is Tommy Robinson a headstrong fool who thoroughly deserves the 13-month prison sentence handed him by a judge in slightly confused and murky circumstances last week?

Tommy Robinson