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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

Denying climate change is like saying the moon is made of cheese, President Obama has said in his latest attempt to persuade an unconvinced world that “global warming” is the most urgent crisis of our time. Obama was speaking to

Here is the Obama administration’s green strategy reduced to one damning equation. 19 million jobs lost plus $4.335 trillion spent = a reduction in global mean temperature of 0.018 degrees C. Yes. Horrifying but true. These are the costs to

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,

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

The cause of climate alarmism has suffered yet another devastating setback: new research suggests that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is not, after all disappearing due to man-made global warming, but because it has a volcano underneath. For years, the

To anyone born at the tail end of the Baby Boom generation, the death of comic Rik Mayall is going to come as an almighty blow. When Not The Nine O’Clock News’s Mel Smith keeled over last year at 60

How long do you think a white teacher would last in a British primary school if he were to tell his class of seven-year olds that all non-Christians were “filthy heathens”? Or if he referred to black people using the

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

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

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

1. You never appreciate what you’ve got until you lose it At school in Britain in the Eighties – a private school, full of kids with the kind of parents who ought to have been four-square behind the Reagan revolution

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

Alexander Shulgin, pioneering psychedelic pharmacologist, has died – and those of us who were there at the birth of rave salute him. Shulgin did not invent MDMA – aka Ecstasy – which was first created by the Swiss pharmaceuticals firm

A bunch of self-important luvvies has signed a letter calling for a moratorium on Britain’s barely nascent fracking industry. (H/T Bishop Hill) The list of contributors is like a Who’s Who from Hell. They include: Michael Mansfield QC – champagne

“Feeding the masses on unicorn ribs”. That was how Walter Russell Mead once poured scorn on Obama’s misbegotten attempts to revive the US economy by creating five million “green jobs.” Mead was quite right, of course. And there was plenty

Britain is turning into a third world country. If you want to know how and why, consider three of the ongoing scandals that continued to fester over the weekend. The first concerns allegations of vote-rigging in London borough of Tower

A footballer you haven’t heard of has been forced to apologise after suggesting on television that some women are more attractive than others and that if four girls were political parties the least ugly one would be UKIP. I’m very grateful

On this week’s Radio Free Delingpole podcast I discuss with Peter Foster of Canada’s Financial Post an issue which has long puzzled me: the liberal-left’s extraordinary capacity for cognitive dissonance. Or, if you want to put it more bluntly, for

Go on to Google today and you’ll see a charming illustration celebrating the life and work of environmentalist Rachel Carson. There’s a turtle and a pelican and a crab and a delightful seal in an idyllic landscape of flowers and

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

A quip which has been doing the rounds on Twitter the last few days concerns the official projection of how many seats UKIP stands to win in Westminster next year, based on its stellar performance in the local and European

Thomas Piketty – house economist of the Occupy movement – has been rumbled. Ever since the publication earlier this year of his doorstopper treatise Capital in the Twenty-First Century – the French economist has been adulated as the poster boy

It would be quite wrong to attribute the Isla Vista killings to the work of a lone madman, a U.S. feminist author argues today in the pages of the UK Guardian. The real reason, says Jessica Valenti, is much simpler:

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

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

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

Many of America’s most iconic monuments and breakfast cereals are threatened by climate change, according to two new reports produced by “experts.” According to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), an advocacy group, no fewer than 30 heritage sites across

The author of a much-quoted 1975 Newsweek article predicting catastrophic global cooling now says it was a big mistake and the earth was warming all along. (H/T Climate Depot) Peter Gwynne, began his piece by declaring portentously: “There are ominous

“Try as I might, I cannot remember a time when Britain’s various elites were as united in fury as they are now over UKIP leader Nigel Farage.” Brendan O’Neill is right. I can’t either. Outside Breitbart London you can count

US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned students that if they don’t take climate more seriously they will be jeopardising the future of the planet. Speaking at the graduation ceremony of his alma mater Boston College, he said: “If

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

“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

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