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Brexit Might Actually Win This Referendum. Here’s Why…

Do you know, I think we Brexiteers might actually win this EU referendum. I’m reluctant to talk about it because I don’t want to jinx it. As I was saying to Toby Young on our podcast the other day, it feels as deliciously

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The Top 13 Reasons For Staying In The EU… Debunked

1. “It will create uncertainty.” (Usually followed by the phrase “…and business hates uncertainty…”) This is, literally, an infantile argument. Babies live in the present and want everything now. Grown ups understand the importance of deferred gratification – that is you

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50 Million Reasons Why The WWF Wants Britain to Remain In The EU

The WWF – the world’s richest environmental lobby group – has announced that Britain should remain in the European Union. “The safer option for our wildlife and environment is for the UK to remain within the EU,” it says in a

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Yale Students: Shakespeare is Better Than Maya Angelou, Honestly

Australia’s national women’s soccer team – hotly tipped for a medal at the Rio Olympics – has  been thrashed 7-0 by a team of under-15-year-old boys. Students at Yale University have petitioned their English Department for a change of curriculum. They

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Al Gore’s Utterly Incredible Paris Climate Change Non-Achievement

Ten years on from his overrated, pimped up powerpoint lecture An Inconvenient Truth, eco-huckster Al Gore is trying to tell anyone who’ll still listen how he (almost) singlehandedly saved the world from ManBearPig. And some of them actually believe him,

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If You Don’t Want To Get Nuked Don’t Bomb Pearl Harbor

President Obama has kowtowed to the Japanese and Western liberals by promising at the site of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb “we shall not repeat the evil.” People who agree with this sentiment ought to do two things. First they should

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G7 Leaders: Vote Brexit And The World Will End

Just when you thought the scaremongering couldn’t get any worse, the leaders of the G7 nations have weighed in with their verdict on Britain’s EU referendum: apparently if the UK votes Leave it’s going to kill the global economy.

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Austria Gets The Extremist President It Didn’t Deserve

The Austrian presidential election result has been a triumph for the cause of extremism in Europe. We were continually assured by the left-liberal media how awful it would be if the (supposed) “far-right” candidate Norbert Hofer won. But actually the

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Britain MUST Leave The EU Says David Cameron’s Strategy Guru Steve Hilton

The EU is “arrogant and unaccountable”; EU membership makes Britain “literally ungovernable”; the EU is “anti-market” and “stifles competition with its statism, corporatism and bureaucracy”; it’s “perfectly obvious to everyone” that the EU is incapable of reform; Britain will be

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Czech Politician: West Will Have To ‘Crush’ Islam

Islam is a “criminal” ideology which deserves to be ranked with “Nazism, fascism and communism”, is “incompatible with the principles of European law” and, like its totalitarian predecessors, must inevitably be defeated. So argues Czech lawyer, activist and politician Klára Samková in

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Trump Vows To Nix Paris Climate Treaty

Donald Trump has signalled an end to the United States’ disastrous flirtation with green crony capitalism by promising to nix the COP21 Paris climate treaty if and when he becomes US president. “I will be looking at that very, very

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Richard Branson Vs The Anti-Free-Speech Eco Loons

Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has been taking flak from the eco loons. His crime? Failing (so far at any rate) to censor the guest on this week’s Virgin podcast – an appalling, notorious climate change denier by the name of

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Brexit: Mark Carney can **** right off back to Canada

Mark Carney was imported from his native Canada to become Britain’s Bank of England governor on an £874,000 salary for one reason and one reason only: to serve as the creature of Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.

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Professor: Islamophobia Accelerates Global Warming

Is Islamophobia accelerating global warming? That was the actual title of a lecture given earlier this week at Massachusetts Institute of Technology by a professor Ghassan Hage.

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Taxidius Avoidus: Emma Watson’s Dirty Secret

Emma Watson is the latest celebrity to be exposed in the Panama Papers leaks. Apparently she keeps chunks of her estimated $70 million fortune stashed away in an offshore company in the British Virgin Islands. Personally, I am more than

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RRS Sir David Attenborough is a Terrible Name For a Ship

“I voted for Boaty McBoatface myself,” a top scientist has told a UK parliamentary inquiry into the naming of a £200 million research vessel. Boaty McBoatface was the name the public overwhelmingly voted for after the decision was thrown open

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Greenies Dance While Fort McMurray Burns

Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada is in flames. Thousands of residents have lost their homes. But it’s not all bad news, as this guy helpfully tried explaining on Twitter. @JamesDelingpole Check out @BlakeSiefken being glad homes are burning in #ymmfire because

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Jimmy Kimmel: Totally F**king Wrong on Climate Change

Jimmy Kimmel is great. Probably the most relaxed, amiable, and funny of all the U.S. talk show hosts, not counting James Corden. But after last night he just lost a fan. No, I’m sure he doesn’t care about this either. As he made perfectly

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Greenmail: How 13 Lords of Eco Lunacy Tried to Gag The Times

The [London] Times newspaper’s coverage of the climate change debate is far too balanced and if it prints any more articles written from a sceptical point of view it will become a laughing stock. So runs the threat in a menacing private

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WATCH: Emma Thompson Stages Eco Protest; Sprayed With Manure By Irate Farmer

Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson has been sprayed with manure by an irate farmer after trespassing on his land to protest about fracking. Once feted as a great actress, director and screenwriter for films including Nanny McPhee, Harry Potter and her Oscar-winning adaptation

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Rhodes Must Fall Agitator Boasts: I Made A White Waitress Cry…

Ntokozo Qwabe – one of the loony, entitled, Black-Lives-Matter-style race hustlers behind the Rhodes Must Fall campaign at Oxford University – has boasted on his Facebook page about reducing a white waitress to tears. I’ll let the charmer tell the story

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Green Survey: Delingpole At The Epicentre Of Denialist Evil

Carbon Brief – a green propaganda outlet, lavishly funded by the European Union – has produced a map depicting the world’s most influential environmental campaigners and the world’s most dangerous deniers. In the former category, it’s no surprise that tragic

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The Greens Are Losing The Culture Wars. Good.

The Green religion is dying. You can see the evidence of this in the latest Gallup survey showing the number of Americans who identify as “Environmentalist” down to 42 percent (from 78 percent in 1991). But even more telling, I

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Icegate: Now NSIDC Caught Tampering With Climate Records

You’ve read about the climate fraud committed ‘on an unbelievable scale’ by the shysters at NASA. You’ve read about how NOAA overestimated US warming by 50 percent. Now it’s NSIDC’s turn to be caught red-handed fiddling the data and cooking the

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Sarah Palin: ‘Bill Nye Is As Much A Scientist As I Am.’

Besides being a bravura demonstration of weapons-grade trolling, what Sarah Palin said at the US premiere of Climate Hustle is perfectly true. “Bill Nye is as much a scientist as I am. He’s a kid’s show actor. He’s not a scientist,” Palin said

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