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Michael Palin has finally admitted what many of us have known in our hearts for some time: a lot of Monty Python’s material was “crap.” “People forgive you the things that don’t work. A lot of Python was crap, it

British schoolchildren are being brainwashed by a deep green environmental curriculum which fills their heads with “confusion, ignorance and fear”, says a new study by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. The report, by science writer Andrew Montford and statistician John

Climate change is a form of “extreme, horrific, longterm, widespread violence” akin to mass murder or nuclear war, claims American writer and cultural historian Rebecca Solnit in the Guardian’s Environment pages. Ms Solnit – “the author of numerous books about

“Buy One Get One Free” deals in supermarkets are unsustainable and should be banned. So says a new report by the House of Lords European Union Committee called Counting The Cost Of Food Waste. Already your eyes are glazing over

Lying about climate change to advance the environmental agenda is a good idea, say two economists in a peer-reviewed paper published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. The authors, Assistant Professors of Economics Fuhai Hong and Xiaojian Zhao, take it as

The latest verdict is in on ‘climate change’ – and the news is good. The planet is greening, the oceans are blooming, food production is up, animals are thriving and humans are doing better than ever: and all thanks to

You’ve been reading all week in the MSM about the doomsday predictions in the latest IPCC report. You’ve quaked at headlines like: “Climate change harms food crops, says IPCC” (Financial Times) “Climate signals growing louder” (New York Times) “Climate change

Nigel Farage and Nick Clegg locked horns for the second and final time last night. The BBC played host, and all the polling seems to suggest that Farage walked away as the winner. James Delingpole presents five key take-aways from

There’s a father I know who I suspect may be a child abuser. He sends his kids away for weeks on end to a prison-like boarding environment run by authoritarian strangers. Even when they’re home he can barely find the

Green ideologues working for the British government helped “sex up” the latest Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) report in order to make its conclusions sound more scary than the evidence warrants, it emerged today. The draft version of the

Today sees the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest findings on the state of “global warming” and the news isn’t good. Here are some of the highlights: Giant malarial mosquitoes the size of crane flies may

OK then, Nate Silver. Don’t take my advice. Why not go and do something really stupid, like kiss goodbye to integrity, pay Danegeld to your tormenters, and humiliate one of your innocent writers? Oh. No. Wait. You already did. If Silver still

Ever wondered how it would feel to be dropped from a helicopter into a swirling mass of crazed, genetically modified oceanic whitetip sharks in the middle of a USS-Indianapolis-style feeding frenzy? Just ask Nate Silver. He’s been living the nightmare

Nigel Farage has accused the European Union of having “blood on its hands” over the Ukraine. Does that sound over the top? Well it might if you’ve been taking your cue from much of the media this last month. Mostly

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its latest figures on the annual death toll caused by pollution–and they look shocking. Of all the deaths across the globe in 2012, no fewer than seven million–1 in 8–are apparently the result

The economic costs of ‘global warming’ have been grossly overestimated, a leaked report – shortly to be published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – has admitted. Previous reports – notably the hugely influential 2006 Stern Review –

The answer to that one is a big “no” by the way, but that certainly hasn’t stopped the usual green suspects trying to shoehorn the Malaysian tragedy into their grand universal theory of everything. Here’s how an enterprising environmental reporter

Global warming ‘deniers’ are as bad as ‘Holocaust deniers’ because climate change is as “as certain as Auschwitz”, a Guardian columnist, Nick Cohen, has claimed. (H/T Marc Morano at Climate Depot) Anyone who disagrees with this is a “bed-wetting kidult”,

Science is rife with corruption, incompetence, dishonesty and fabrication–and now, thanks to a frank resignation letter by the US’s top scientific misconduct official we have a better idea why. David E. Wright, a respected science historian, has just quit his

Girlguiding – Britain’s answer to the Girl Scouts – has launched a new badge designed to boost Girl Guides’ self esteem. It’s called the “Free To Be Me” badge. To earn the badge, Girl Guides between 10 and 14 will

The campaign for greater press regulation in Britain has suffered a devastating, possibly fatal blow with the release to the Guardian of a list of the celebrities who are lending their support to the Leveson Royal Charter proposal. “Wankers. Faarsands

The American Physical Society (APS) has signalled a dramatic turnabout in its position on “climate change” by appointing three notorious climate skeptics to its panel on public affairs (POPA). They are: Professor Richard Lindzen, formerly Alfred P Sloan Professor of

One of the great green urban myths is that extreme weather events are on the increase. To prove it, environmentalists like to cite reports by ‘independent’ industry sources such as the big reinsurance company Munich Re, which show that the

British television is still far too white, the black comedian Lenny Henry has argued at this year’s BAFTA television lecture. The programmes he singled out as examples of this woeful failing include Broadchurch, Miranda, and Midsomer Murders. Which is a

Michael Gove is by some distance the most brilliant and effective member of David Cameron’s Cabinet. All right: so maybe this is a bit like being the fastest downhill ski-racer in Jamaica, or the greatest military hero in Italy, or

The National Trust is one of Britain’s best-loved charities – as quintessentially English as tea (out of a proper pot, of course) and scones, as much a part of our heritage furniture as Stourhead (which it owns) or Lundy island

Scientists who don’t believe in catastrophic man-made global warming should be put in prison, a US philosophy professor argues on a website funded by the UK government. Lawrence Torcello – assistant professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, NY,

What do you call a pop diva whose demands (allegedly) include the following when she’s on tour? All crew members have to wear 100% cotton. Alkaline water must be chilled to 21 degrees and served with $900 titanium straws. Bathrooms

Steve Irwin had one of the weirdest deaths imaginable: stung multiple times in the heart by a stingray which had probably mistaken him for a tiger shark. His final words, we now know from his cameraman, Justin Lyons, were: “I’m dying.” But

The only time I met the late trade union leader Bob Crow was when we appeared together on BBC Any Questions. Before the show I researched what I thought would be the killer point which would floor him completely: the

One of the biggest divisions in the conservative movement right now is how to respond to Vladimir Putin’s aggression in the Ukraine. On the one hand are the neo-cons who apparently want to flex America’s muscles and open a new

The planet is not in danger of catastrophic man made global warming. Even if we burn all the world’s recoverable fossil fuels it will still only result in a temperature rise of less than 1.2 degrees C. So say The