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“There aren’t a lot of functioning democracies around the world that work this way where you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bankrollingwhoever they want, however they want, in some cases undisclosed. What it means is ordinary Americans are shut

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

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

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

“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 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

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

Former UK Environment Secretary Owen Paterson – recently sacked in Prime Minister David Cameron’s reshuffle – said today that he received more death threats from green activists than ever he did from Republican and Loyalist terrorists during his stint as

Before he came to power David Cameron promised “a bonfire of the quangos” – all those useless government advisory bodies such as the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the General Social Care Council and the Independent Commission for Aid Impact,

“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

The situation in Ukraine may be even more dangerous and unstable than we feared. According to this report from the Russian media, the separatists widely blamed for shooting down Malaysia Airlines MH17 are in control not just of one Buk

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

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

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

“It’s kind of like telling a little girl who’s trying to run across a busy street to catch a school bus to go for it, knowing there’s a substantial chance that she’ll be killed. She might make it. But it’s

1. Gove Michael Gove was by far the best Secretary of State in Cameron’s cabinet. It may be – as Alex Wickham cogently argues – a cunning tactical move which makes Gove more powerful than ever. But from an ideological

Have a look at this recent BBC interview with Al Gore. Then, once you’ve cleaned up the sick, consider what it tells us about the current debate on climate change. I’d suggest two things. 1. The mainstream media still isn’t

Sometimes you need a trip to America to remind yourself what it is we’re fighting for. That’s what I’ve been doing in Las Vegas this last week. (One of them. You needn’t know about all the other stuff). First I’ve

Stage a conference of libertarians, pot-legalisers, gun nuts, and gold bugs in a city of booze, whores, gambling and semi-automatics: what could possibly go wrong? This is what I’ve come to FreedomFest in Las Vegas to find out and it

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

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

Prime Minister’s Question Time (PMQs) is a big turn off. So says Mumsnet, the website for women who have had babies, are thinking about having babies, or who are just really into the idea that motherhood is such a blessed

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,

Twitter accounts dedicated to marijuana use are more likely than not to extol the smoking of weed, celebrate its terminology and paraphernalia, recommend the advantages of having sex while high, praise the calming and/or restorative effects of a nice fat

“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.

1. Vegetarianism is evil I have nothing against vegetarians. What bothers me is the evangelical militancy of their creed. Over the weekend, for example, it emerged that a sinister cabal of vegans has gone to war on cheeseburgers. If only

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 –

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

Finally the BBC has solved a problem that has long dogged the First World War: its worrying lack of relevance to modern youth. For at least three generations, the First World War enjoyed a reputation as an event of quite

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

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

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

“Climate change” is a theory for which there is “no scientific proof at all” says the co-founder of Greenpeace. And the green movement has become a “combination of extreme political ideology and religious fundamentalism rolled into one.” Patrick Moore, a