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What Game of Thrones can Teach us About the War on Terror

Game of Thrones is over for another year – but that doesn’t mean there’ll be any shortage of sick, random ultraviolence on our screens over the next weeks and months. For this we must thank the brutal jihadists of Al

What Game of Thrones can Teach us About the War on Terror

EU Teaches West Africa how to Cheat, Plunder, Bully and Fish Unsustainably

If ever you doubted that putting the European Union in charge ofenvironmental issues is a bit like inviting the Taliban to run MissWorld, consider this story by Richard Northabout the characteristic blend of bullying, incompetence, corruption,greed, high-handedness, dishonesty and ineffectuality

EU Teaches West Africa how to Cheat, Plunder, Bully and Fish Unsustainably

Climate McCarthyism claims yet another victim

Climate McCarthyism has claimed another victim. Dr Caleb Rossiter – an adjunct professor at American University, Washington DC – has been fired by a progressive think tank after publicly expressing doubt about man-made global warming. Rossiter, a former Democratic congressional

Climate McCarthyism claims yet another victim

Look, it really is very simple: Western culture IS the best

OK, here’s a tough one. Which of these, would you say, is the superior culture? Culture A Produced Purcell, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vermeer, Shakespeare, Goethe, Moliere, Jane Austen, Newton, Wren, Darwin, Einstein, Watson & Crick, Magna Carta,

Look, it really is very simple: Western culture IS the best

Statins: Big Government Can Seriously Injure Your Health

What kind of government would try to foist on one quarter of its population a drug which, at great public expense and for no seriously justifiable benefit, risked turning its users into diabetics, depressives and sufferers of chronic fatigue and

Statins: Big Government Can Seriously Injure Your Health

Paul Krugman: Climate Denialism Is Ayn Rand's Fault

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has come up with an exciting new theory as to why the world’s economies are still proving reluctant to bomb themselves back to the dark ages in order to “combat climate change.” Apparently, it’s

Paul Krugman: Climate Denialism Is Ayn Rand's Fault

Glastonbury: Animal Rights Freaks v Metallica

Animal rights activists are campaigning to get Metallica banned from headlining this year’s Glastonbury festival because the singer James Hetfield supports bear hunting and is a member of the National Rifle Association.  The festival, in Pilton, Somerset, is very probably the

Glastonbury: Animal Rights Freaks v Metallica

D-Day thoughts on the Greatest Generation

I’ve sometimes thought it a misnomer to refer to the veterans of World War II as the “Greatest Generation.” The reverence may be justified but I’m uncomfortable with the sly implication that those who took part were somehow possessed of

D-Day thoughts on the Greatest Generation

Fracking – The Experts Strike Back At The Luvvies

A group of over fifty lecturers and professors has written to the Guardian newspaper in support of fracking and shale gas exploitation in the abundant Bowland Shale in North-East England. They argue: Globally high prices for commodities and recent innovations

Fracking – The Experts Strike Back At The Luvvies

UKIP Needs an Ideology, Otherwise, Why Should We Bother?

Today is the Newark by-election and however well UKIP and its candidate Roger Helmer do in their attempts to overturn the Conservatives’ vast majority, one thing is clear: UKIP are now well past the stage when they can be dismissed

UKIP Needs an Ideology, Otherwise, Why Should We Bother?

Michael Gove's 'war' on US literature: Another Left-wing Urban Myth

Education Secretary Michael Gove has supposedly “banned” classic works of American literature, including Of Mice And Men and The Catcher In The Rye from the new schools English curriculum. It’s in all the papers so it must be true. But it’s

Michael Gove's 'war' on US literature: Another Left-wing Urban Myth

Why I May Never Wear my Levis Again

Chip Bergh, the CEO of Levi Strauss has not washed his jeans in over a year. Why do we need to know this revolting fact? Interviewed at Fortune’s Brainstorm Green Conference, Bergh admitted it “sounds totally disgusting” but insisted “I

Why I May Never Wear my Levis Again

Farage's Revolution Is Thatcher's Revolution

Nigel Farage has often cast himself as the “Heir to Thatcher.” Today he and his party demonstrated it, not so much in the votes they have attracted from disgruntled Tories as in the ones they got from working class voters

Farage's Revolution Is Thatcher's Revolution

Some Reflections On The UKIP Earthquake

1. UKIP are not just the “Conservative party in exile.” Some of their most significant winnings have been in the industrial north, in towns like Rotherham. Like Margaret Thatcher they have galvanised the working classes – see also their success

Some Reflections On The UKIP Earthquake

Climate Change: The Biggest PR Fail In History

Just three per cent of Americans consider “the environment” the most important problem, according to the latest Gallup poll. (In Britain, too, people appear to be decreasingly worried about climate change). This surely represents, by some margin, the biggest PR

Climate Change: The Biggest PR Fail In History

30,000 Reasons Why The Conservatives Deserve To Lose The Rural Vote

“Vote Blue, Go Green”. It seemed like such a handy slogan when the Conservatives first introduced it in 2006. Not only would it “detoxify the brand” and wrong-foot the opposition, but it would also remind people of the party’s natural

30,000 Reasons Why The Conservatives Deserve To Lose The Rural Vote

A Government that does Nothing? Sign Me Up!

The Coalition has been branded a “zombie government” for taking an early break this week, apparently on the grounds of having insufficient new bills to debate. According to Shadow Commons leader Angela Eagle, it’s a sign that “this government hasn’t

A Government that does Nothing? Sign Me Up!