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If you were listening to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning you might have been forgiven for thinking – not for the first time, probably – that you’d chanced upon a party political broadcast on behalf of the Socialist

When is it acceptable for a terrorist to go berserk in a shopping mall and machine gun innocent victims to death? When it’s all being done for the noble cause of environmentalism, of course! Such is the take-home message of

The other day on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions, I made a point which unfortunately went right over the heads of my booing audience. It had to do with the way lefties like my fellow panelists Chuka Umunna MP and

Yesterday on Twitter someone publicly declared that I not only had no brains but no balls either. This remark went to the very heart of my male pride and cut me so deeply that I think I may face sleepless

Another day, another “full and unreserved apology”  forced on someone in the public eye by the leftist Offence Police. This time the mea maxima culpa comes from a minor government minister called Lord Freud who, apparently, has been caught out

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has been touring the ruins of Gaza. The destruction, he said, is “beyond description” and a “source of shame to the international community.” Is it? Why? Before we try to answer that question, let’s just imagine

Daytime TV presenter Judy Finnigan has been forced to apologise after claiming on ITV’s debate programme Loose Women that an act of rape committed by a footballer was “not violent” and “didn’t cause any bodily harm” to his victim who

I’ve just been re-reading what former Tory MP turned Times and Spectator columnist Matthew Parris wrote in the run-up to the recent by-election in Clacton. It goes some way towards explaining why UKIP won. So much so that, as I

Remember the story of the four kids killed on the beach by Israeli ordnance in Gaza? Of course you do. It was the one that set the tone for the entire media coverage of the summer’s Israel-Gaza conflict. Here was

I wonder whether Shell has yet sacked whichever pillock it was who advised them a few years back to sponsor the Guardian’s ferociously anti-fossil-fuel, anti-capitalist, anti-Shell Environment pages? Knowing the craven, slippery, self-hating ways of Big Oil as I do,

If ever you’ve worried about vanishing Arctic ice, the ‘expert’ almost certainly to blame is a Cambridge professor called Peter Wadhams. For years now, Wadhams has been the go-to doommonger of choice for any newspaper or green pressure group or

Opposing wind farms is “irrational”, claimed Liberal Democrat MP Vince Cable at his party conference yesterday. Actually, no. Here are some reasons why anyone who doesn’t oppose wind farms is most probably either deluded, criminal or insane. 1. Wind turbines

The cause of climate alarmism has been struck another near-fatal blow by a new study from a NASA research team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Using a combination of satellite observations and direct measurements taken by a

Should trolls who say disobliging things about people on Twitter face imprisonment or death? Well the answer is now in and, depressingly, it appears to be “yes”. Today, we read the news that a woman who tweeted under the name

An Englishwoman has taken self-love to its ultimate extreme by marrying herself in an “incredibly empowering” ceremony attended by almost 50 of her friends. Grace Gelder married Grace Gelder earlier this year at an “idyllic farmhouse in rural Devon”. Her

Climate change is even deadlier than ebola according to the editor of one of the world’s oldest and most distinguished medical journals. Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal; established 1840), claims in her

A New York professor has discovered the real reason for the rise and rise of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq: not Islamist fundamentalism, death-cult nihilism or regional power struggles but climate change. Charles B Strozier, Professor of History at

David Cameron has said he thinks schools should teach mainly in imperial measurements rather than in nasty, foreign, and undeniably French metric. Funny that. It’s almost like he’d had spies at the rowdy Conservative conference fringe event the night before

The world’s wildlife population is collapsing – with fewer than half as many wild animals around today as there were in 1970. So claims the WWF (Worldwide Fund for Nature) in its latest headline-grabbing report. Here are some reasons why

The budget fashion retailer Matalan has got itself into trouble over a photograph in its latest catalogue showing a group of cute kids dressed up in onesie animal costumes. Unfortunately, while the various white children are dressed as ladybirds, rabbits

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has divested from fossil fuels. We know this because it has been splashed all over the media – it got much prominence, for example, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme – for all the world as

Now that the smoke has cleared from the recent Israel/Gaza conflict the truth of what really happened is finally beginning to emerge. Hamas – the terrorist regime which controls Gaza – does not come out of it well. “We are

Have you ever wondered why conservatives don’t talk more often about nationalisation of industry, wealth redistribution, affirmative action, the need for higher taxes and more government intervention, Islamophobia, the glories of multiculturalism, the “war on women”, and the urgent need

The story of the “extinct” giant snail – supposedly killed by global warming, but recently found alive and well on the same Indian Ocean atoll it has inhabited for the last 80,000 years – is developing into a major environmental

A Mexican ecologist has blown the whistle on the corruption, lies and incompetence of the wind industry – and on the massive environmental damage it causes in the name of saving the planet. Patricia Mora, a research professor in coastal

First the good news. Thanks to last night’s “No” vote in the Scottish referendum Britain has been spared the following: a run on the pound; the hasty exodus of Scotland’s finance industry; the premature death of UKIP; the gloating of

Here is the news: in Australia, a plot by Islamic State sympathisers to capture random members of the public and chop their heads off has been foiled by security services; in Syria, two Americans and a British hostage have been

Today the people of Scotland will vote on the most important issue of their lifetime: whether to remain part of a 307 year old Union which has brought them peace and prosperity, encouraged cultural and economic efflorescence and created the

Environmental scientists at the University of Nottingham have made a shocking and expensive discovery: eco-friendly buildings made of “sustainable” wood burn much more easily than eco-unfriendly ones made of stone, concrete, steel or glass. They made their surprise discovery over

Green activist Naomi Klein has a new book out today. If past form is anything to go by – No Logo; The Shock Doctrine – it will become an instant bestseller and will be informing liberal arguments for months and

Dame Vivienne Westwood – the fashion designer and punk pioneer – has driven what may be the final nail in the coffin of the referendum on Scottish independence by coming out for the “Yes” vote. “I hate England,” explained the

Yes, the oleaginous, dubious Labour MP for Leicester East and the scruffy-bearded, hard-left, kitten-impersonating, anti-Israel apologist for Islamism will not be many readers’ first choices for “politicians with integrity I most love and respect.” But the fact remains that this

Scotland will vote “No” in next week’s referendum. But I wish it were otherwise. Here are some reasons why I urge the Scots to vote “yes” to independence. 1. David Cameron will lose his job as prime minister. Not only

The world’s first and only species to go “extinct” because of climate change has been found alive and well – and living where it always has for the past 80,000 or so years – on the Indian Ocean atoll of