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If you care at all about the future of quality journalism, you really should read Peter Oborne’s letter resigning his post as Chief Political Commentator of the Daily Telegraph. He doesn’t pull his punches, my favourite bit being where he

The story so far: devastated by universally appalling reviews of its dreadful farrago of lefty nonsense UKIP: The First Hundred Days, Channel 4 has reluctantly agreed to make another, counterbalancing political mockumentary, a much more realistic one this time, called

You are all worthless, insignificant trash and deserve to die! This is the message of Julia Roberts’s cheery infomercial for the environmental campaign group Conservation International, in which she assumes the persona of Mother Nature and dumps all over the

A New Mexico physicist has launched a petition – signed by 22,000 Klimate-Kool-Aid-drinkers, and counting – demanding that from henceforward climate sceptics be referred to in the media by their proper name. That proper name, apparently, is “climate deniers”. Among

The big story in all the papers this week is that butter is good for you, after all. I say “after all” because for most of my life butter has been widely touted by the Health Establishment as the dietary

“Fiddling temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever,” says Christopher Booker, not pulling his punches. And I think he’s right not to do so. If – as Booker, myself, and few others suspect – the guardians of the world’s

Here’s a video that you absolutely must see. Not, I hasten to warn you, because it’s exciting, well-produced or informative; rather, because of the fascinating light it sheds on the debate about global warming in general and also, in particular, on the ongoing controversy about whether organisations like NASA and NOAA are playing fast and loose with the world’s temperature data sets.

Did you hear about the gangs of white taxi drivers in the market towns of Southern England who over a period of decades have been grooming, drugging and serially raping under-age girls of Pakistani Kashmiri heritage? No of course not.

A US professor has come up with a brilliant and original new theory as to why mankind is doomed by climate change: it’s because, unlike mice, humans are fatally handicapped by their ability to rationalize and reason. No wait. You

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has authorised the release of a secret dossier detailing all the policies that sinister, evil former Education Secretary Michael Gove would have introduced if only they hadn’t been sabotaged by his heroic and principled Lib

Eight reasons why you have to see Kingsman: the Secret Service: 1. The baddie Valentine (Samuel L Jackson, who appears to have based his lisping villain on his arch-enemy Spike Lee) is an ardent greenie who – just like rather

As Valentine’s Day approaches the more considerate among you will naturally already have ordered the gift you know your loved one wants above all else: that must-have cast of your anus, immortalized in solid bronze.

Did you know that Eton, Harrow and Westminster are now among the worst performing schools in Britain, with academic results so dismal they have been beaten in the league tables by some of our most dismal sink comprehensives? Well you

How can we believe in ‘global warming’ when the temperature records providing the ‘evidence’ for that warming cannot be trusted? It’s a big question – and one which many people, even on the sceptical side of the argument, are reluctant

Benedict ‘Sherlock’ Cumberbatch has said he is “a complete fool”, an “idiot”, “thoughtless” and that he is “devastated” for having inadvertently used the term “coloured” to describe black people on a US talk show. It’s depressing enough that he felt

The Prince of Wales has demanded a “Magna Carta for the Earth” in order to save the planet from global warming – thus calling into severe question the abilities of those hapless dons who were charged with teaching him history

“2014 was the hottest year on record”. “Islam is the religion of peace” “UKIP rocked by defection of senior member to Conservatives.” Sometimes you have to look beneath the headlines to get to the truth of a story and the

“2014 was the hottest year on record.” Q: If the above statement is not true – and (see below) it isn’t –  would it make it any more true were it to be uttered in an important speech at Davos

Professional lesbian and poverty chic Guardianista cookery writer “Jack” Monroe is unhappy. She tweets: Here’s the Sun ‘head of PR’ sending a collage of topless photos to targeted journalists. Creepy, abusive, harassment. So too, we can safely infer, is former

Many years ago, when I was a young diarist working for the Daily Telegraph’s Peterborough column, my bosses dispatched me to cover the Green Party conference. This wasn’t because I was particularly anti-Green at the time. Rather it was because,

1. “You can’t shout fire in a crowded theatre.” This hackneyed faux-truism is the Expecto Patronum of squishy liberal apologists. That is, when the going gets tough and they’re forced to do that difficult thing – defending free speech –

Will Self, the literary equivalent of a tattered Salvador Dali melting clock poster on the bedroom wall of a pretentious fifth-former, has spoken out in the wake of Charlie Hebdo. The bestselling author, who recently dismissed George Orwell as a

Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg have both accused UKIP leader Nigel Farage of trying to make political capital out of the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Their hypocrisy is as breathtaking as their moral cowardice is nauseating

The story so far: 12 people, including two policemen, have been murdered at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo by two hooded men wielding AK47s. In 2011 the magazine was firebombed after running a caricature of the Prophet

Nigel Farage says that nurses working for the NHS should be able to speak English. I agree. What a pity that this is about the most daringly controversial criticism of the NHS we’re likely to hear from almost any politician,

I wonder how many of the thousands of people petitioning for Convicted Rapist Ched Evans not to be signed by Oldham Athletic Football Club are remotely interested in football, let alone the prospects of Oldham Athletic Football Club. My guess

Barely has the year begun and already the battle lines have been drawn with the Enemy plain in view. Either you’re on the side of Katie Hopkins – in which case you’re one of the good guys who, seventy-five years

January Encouraged by its success in banning incandescent lightbulbs, powerful vacuum cleaners, incorrectly shaped fruit, effective pesticides, minty cigarettes etc, the European Commission decides to ban Euthymol toothpaste, metal detectors, heated handlebars on motorcycles, petrol-driven lawnmowers, Meerschaum pipes, cocktail umbrellas,

Quite the stupidest “news” story I saw over Christmas was the one about how Winston Churchill was apparently urged in a letter by one of his future in-laws not to convert to Islam. When I started out in journalism in

The Waffen SS were rubbish soldiers Though generally held to be the most feared and effective fighting troops of the Second World War, the Waffen SS were not averse to making elementary mistakes. In 1945, for example, as the Allied

And up until now now Pope Francis had been doing so well: pious, popular, a scourge of incompetence and corruption, a champion of the poor…. But unfortunately, 2015 looks like the year he’s going to blow it all by casting

Merry Christmas, everybody. I haven’t opened all my presents yet. But here’s what I’m hoping for by the end of the day. (Sorry for the absence of explanatory links. But it’s Christmas and I can’t be arsed). 1. Global warming

Christmas has come a couple of days early for climate sceptics, in what may well prove to be one of the biggest blows to the Global Warming religion since Climategate. This time the pillar of green faith which has been

Billionaire oil-trader-turned-green-evangelist Tom Steyer has made a very expensive discovery: at the cost of $4.5 million from his own pockets, he has learned that the Koch Brothers just aren’t evil enough, even for progressives, any more. Traditionally, the Koch Brothers

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Birds (RSPB) has scored another triumph in its ongoing mission to eradicate Britain’s avian species. A wind farm in Scotland, which the RSPB was instrumental in easing through the planning process ten years

Almost unquestionably the greatest film ever made – well, definitely a lot funnier than Citizen Kane, Battleship Potemkin or The Seventh Seal – is Team America. I like its can-do all-American spirit. I like the puppet sex scenes. I like