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Theresa May has slammed the brakes on Britain’s £18 billion Hinkley Point C nuclear power station.

There are apologies; there are grovelling apologies; and then there’s the kind of hair-shirt, mea culpa, “oh God, oh God, how can we ever make amends?”, self-abasing, crawling-to-beg-your-forgiveness-on-our-knees-on-broken-glass number just delivered by the toymaker behind TV kiddie animation series Fireman Sam to the entire Muslim community…

The next James Bond should be a lesbian, says the Guardian. (Which, perhaps not uncoincidentally, has just posted its largest-ever losses).

A Syrian failed asylum seeker has blown himself up with a rucksack bomb, injuring several bystanders, in the town of Ansbach, Germany, apparently after being thwarted in an attempt to attack an open-air music festival.

What Kanye West did to Taylor Swift is like what OJ Simpson did to Nicole Brown: and it’s all basically the Kardashians’ fault. No, really, someone actually said this.

Britain is currently in the midst of a heatwave with temperatures as high as 34 degrees C (that’s 94 degrees in old money – fahrenheit).

Today’s “No Shit Sherlock” award goes to the New York Times’s environment pages for their belated discovery that renewable energy is a lame duck.

More bad news from Nice: we learn from the BBC that local Muslims have been getting the cold shoulder from their kuffar neighbours. “People who yesterday would embrace me warmly are now cold towards me,” says one.

Official: Britain no longer has “the greenest government ever.” Incoming Prime Minister Theresa May has driven a stake through the heart of her predecessor David Cameron’s fluffy, faux-Conservative project by scrapping the Department of Energy And Climate Change (DECC). Established

My first reaction on new British Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet appointments: I’m happy, hope you’re happy too… As an ardent Brexiteer, certainly, I feel a lot more optimistic about the future than I did two days when I penned this

Under the hashtag #WebOfDenial, they are wasting hours of Senate floor time warning America that she is in the grip of a terrible new threat in which evil denialists (TM) funded – natch – by the even more evil Koch Brothers have been conspiring to block action on “climate change” by disseminating lies through right-wing think tanks like the Heartland Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

A group of top European ‘financial insiders’ assembled by Politico insists that, despite the Brexit vote, Britain still won’t actually leave the European Union. These ‘experts’ also predict dire consequences for the UK economy. More than three-quarters of those surveyed said

Conservative U.S. businessman Jay Faison is beginning a $5 million political action fund to support Republican congressional candidates who express an interest in combating climate change.

Nigel Farage – who has announced his (presumably temporary) retirement from politics –  is without question the most important, influential and courageous British politician since Margaret Thatcher. And just like Margaret Thatcher his reward for this has been consistently to

Good news for bird-haters and bat-loathers. A lawyer working for the wind industry says there may, after all, be a silver lining to the Brexit vote: apparently, once Britain is independent, we’ll be freed of all those pesky EU regulations

For me, Independence Day means the birth of the Anglosphere. As an Englishman, I don’t feel at all resentful that you triumphed over George III’s Redcoats, nor do I count it as a defeat. It was a victory for all of us: the settlers in the thirteen colonies got to forge their own destiny; the mother country could focus her attentions elsewhere, notably India; we could all enter a new mature relationship as free traders (bringing both parties massively increased prosperity); and, best of all, it resulted in the U.S. Constitution.

One of the many puzzling tweets I’ve seen on the subject of Michael Gove’s candidacy for the Conservative party leadership is this one: @WikiGuido @JamesDelingpole Now going to focus on #anyonebutGove ghastly backstabber! — Allie Wytchwood (@wytchwooda) July 1, 2016

Michael Gove has declared himself a candidate in the Conservative party leadership race and I couldn’t be more pleased or more surprised.

The most important job of any good wife is to stop her husband making a complete dick of himself

We’re all entitled to our opinions as to who’d make the better Prime Minister – Boris Johnson or Andrea Leadsom. But there’s one thing on which must agree. Better either of the above – or, frankly, a Cocker Spaniel – than the (current

Last week a coalition of Brexit politicians including Boris Johnson and Michael Gove won the biggest popular mandate in British history. More people – 17,410,742 – voted Leave last Thursday than have voted for anything else in Britain, ever. No

Why wasn’t the British government better prepared for Brexit? This is the question being asked right now by all the disgruntled Remainers who can’t quite get over the fact that they didn’t win

“How would it be for David Cameron if he lost this Referendum?” When a BBC crew asked me this two days ago I don’t think either they or I imagined for a moment that this scenario would come to pass.

Just heard the news that Britain has won her Independence. Wow! Let me tell you about the moment yesterday when I first thought it possible that the pollsters might be wrong. I was in a supermarket around 8pm buying some

I never thought this would happen. Independence Day! Suddenly Britain’s future looks so much brighter.

Suppose in 1945, with the Nazi war machine smashed and Britain rejoicing after the greatest victory in her history, we had been told: “Of course, 50 years hence your leaders will have surrendered your sovereignty to the people you’ve just

Let’s pull ourselves together, give it one last push and make sure that in the most important battle most of us will ever have to fight it’s the good guys who end up triumphant.

“This will play well for us,” said a Labour pro-Remain figure on Saturday responding to the murder of pro-Remain Labour MP Jo Cox. Will Straw, director of the Remain campaign, has been caught red-handed advising his team how to exploit Cox’s

Baroness Token – the overpromoted Conservative peer formerly known as Sayeeda Warsi has announced today in The Times that she is quitting the Leave team to campaign for Remain in the EU referendum. No one will be more surprised by

With characteristic subtlety, intelligence and insight, the New York Times has lumbered into the Brexit debate and dog-whistled its left-leaning readership with a piece heavy hinting that thanks to Nigel Farage Britain is the new Nazi Germany. Let’s examine its argument

The liberal left tries to blame Jo Cox killing in ‘tone’ in order to limit their opponents’ free speech and campaigning.

Dear Remainers, The morning after a senseless tragedy which has appalled the whole of Britain I’d like to ask you a simple question: Is there any depth to which you will not stoop in order somehow to snatch victory in this EU referendum?

Special snowflake undergraduates at Oxford University are campaigning to have their workload reduced. Some of them have to write as many as three essays a week. And this, apparently, is too much. Cat Jones, of the Oxford University Student Union, told the

Nigel Farage’s pro-Brexit flotilla down the Thames has run into opposition from Vote Remain boats under the command of multi-millionaire pop star and SFJW (Social Focking Justice Warrior) Sir Bob Geldof. Harsh words have been exchanged; collisions only narrowly averted; one

With a self-parodic idiocy which quite defies satire, the usual suspects on the liberal-left have decided to rebrand the latest appalling Islamist-inspired atrocity as just a more extreme version of routine hate-crime – this time one driven by ‘homophobia’. “This was a deliberate attack

Regular readers may be aware that I am not a fan of wind farms. This is because, among other things, they kill birds and bats, hurt the environment, cause sleeplessness and sickness in humans, drive up fuel prices, enrich troughing