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Channel 4's Jon Snow on Gaza: Fair and Balanced, Anyone?

Channel 4 News anchorman Jon Snow is back from Gaza. In an obviously unscripted, from-the-heart piece to camera he had this to say to British TV audiences about his experiences: I’m back. And in the comfort of this studio its

Channel 4's Jon Snow on Gaza: Fair and Balanced, Anyone?

Wind Farms are OK Because… Barnacles

Offshore wind farms are OK after all, exciting new research by scientists has revealed, because barnacles. Up until now, offshore wind farms had been widely considered by many experts to be about the most pointlessly extravagant and inefficient form of

Wind Farms are OK Because… Barnacles

In Praise of 'Hate Speech'

Someone has petitioned the UK Government’s Home Office demanding that the term “denier” be classified as “hate speech.” We the undersigned request that the offensive terms, “climate denier”, “denier”, “denialist” and other variants being used to harass sceptical scientists or

In Praise of 'Hate Speech'

The Islamist 'Trojan Horse' Plot: Why Lessons Won't Be Learned

“No evidence of a conspiracy”. Do you remember that reassuring phrase? You should because it was being enthusiastically bandied about in the left-leaning media (led, of course, by the BBC) less than a week ago – as the pull-out headline

The Islamist 'Trojan Horse' Plot: Why Lessons Won't Be Learned

Meet the Climate Alarmists' Latest Fluffy White Poster Child…

The climate alarmists have found a new fluffy white creature with which to browbeat us about global warming. Enter the white lemuroid ringtail possum – a species allegedly in imminent danger of being wiped out by man-made climate change. Only

Meet the Climate Alarmists' Latest Fluffy White Poster Child…

Rolling Stones Swap Sex, Drugs for Game of Thrones, Backgammon

The Rolling Stones have largely forsaken their rock n roll lifestyle for more sedentary pleasures like backgammon, jigsaw puzzles and TV box sets. So admits guitarist Ronnie Wood, 67, in a Daily Telegraph interview. On the band’s last tour, Wood

Rolling Stones Swap Sex, Drugs for Game of Thrones, Backgammon

No, Monbiot: Britain Needs More Wolves Like it Needs the Black Death

Eco campaigner George Monbiot has been howling in the Guardian about a wicked government conspiracy to prevent wolves (and other locally extinct wild animals) being reintroduced to mainland Britain. He is incensed that the government is preparing to pass a

No, Monbiot: Britain Needs More Wolves Like it Needs the Black Death

David Cameron Cravenly Surrenders to Big Green

“We’ve got to get rid of all this green crap”, David Cameron is said to have told one of his senior ministers in November last year in a rare moment of vaguely conservative conviction. So why this week did he

David Cameron Cravenly Surrenders to Big Green

On Why Conservative Women Are Sexier

Right wing women are sexier than left wing women, argues Cosmo Landesman in the latest issue of the Spectator. And it’s not like he’s biased: this is a self-confessed “liberal-lefty-pro-feminist” talking here. Maybe once conservative women deserved their reputation for

On Why Conservative Women Are Sexier

Tom Steyer's Epic Green Fail

Tom Steyer, the fossil-fuel-powered hedge funder, has suffered a series of setbacks in his $100 million campaign to save the planet from ‘global warming’ by destroying the U.S. economy. Earlier this year, Steyer announced that he wanted to make climate

Tom Steyer's Epic Green Fail

Australia Repeals its Hated Carbon Tax

Australia has become the first country in the world to abolish its hated carbon tax – in fulfillment of an electoral “pledge in blood” by Prime Minister Tony Abbott. The tax was introduced by the Labor-Greens coalition in mid-2012, despite

Australia Repeals its Hated Carbon Tax

Household Recycling is State-Endorsed Slavery

Recycling is authoritarian, demeaning and an unutterable waste of time, energy and money. No surprise, then, that the European Union is planning to force its vassal states to do much, much more of it. Last week, the European Commission proposed

Household Recycling is State-Endorsed Slavery

BBC on Its Climate Bias: 'Move Along. Nothing to See Here.'

The BBC has reaffirmed its commitment to green bias in a new report which promises to make it harder than ever for climate sceptics to get a fair hearing on any of its channels. According to the interim report, produced

BBC on Its Climate Bias: 'Move Along. Nothing to See Here.'

Dolly Parton: My Boobs Are Fake but My Voice Is Real

Dolly Parton, the 68-year old grande dame of country who stole the hearts of the 120,000 strong crowd at the mother of all rock festivals — Glastonbury — has denied that her performance involved any lip-syncing. “My boobs are fake,

Dolly Parton: My Boobs Are Fake but My Voice Is Real

My Brush with Rolf Harris

“One of the most loved, respected and enduring figures in British showbusiness”. That’s how Rolf Harris is described in an old publicity email I’ve found from 2009, announcing his appearance as guest host on Have I Got News For You.

My Brush with Rolf Harris

How to Troll Glastonbury Festival: Part One

Do you like my t-shirt? I wore it in the Greenpeace field at Glastonbury festival this year in what some people have suggested may have been a massive trolling exercise. I do like the idea of being a troll –

How to Troll Glastonbury Festival: Part One

Al Gore sells his soul to Big Carbon – again…

Billionaire carbon trader Al Gore has thrown away the last remnants of his credibility by appearing on a platform with Australia’s most notorious mining magnate Clive Palmer to celebrate the end of Australia’s carbon tax. Palmer is also a Senator

Al Gore sells his soul to Big Carbon – again…

Hank Paulson: As Wrong about Climate Change as he was about The Crash

Hank Paulson, the former US Treasury Secretary who helped transform the 2008 crash from a temporary crisis into a long-running, still-unresolved disaster, has now turned his expertise to the subject of climate change. In a lengthy editorial for the New

Hank Paulson: As Wrong about Climate Change as he was about The Crash

Global Warming 'Fabricated' by NASA and NOAA

Scientists at two of the world’s leading climate centres – NASA and NOAA – have been caught out manipulating temperature data to overstate the extent of the 20th century “global warming”. The evidence of their tinkering can clearly be seen

Global Warming 'Fabricated' by NASA and NOAA

Five reasons why this World Cup is the greatest ever

1. Filthy, cheating foreigners are conforming satisfyingly to stereotype. The reason England are already out of the competition, claimed Wayne Rooney over the weekend, is that we are far too nice. If ever we wish to win again at the

Five reasons why this World Cup is the greatest ever