What marvellous news to learn that the UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon is to launch a thorough investigation into the science behind climate change! It’s the equivalent of Kenneth Lay promising to organise a full and frank investigation into the accounts at Enron, or Herod ordering an urgent inquiry into the appalling and mysterious [...]
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Herod orders top UN scientists to investigate mysterious infant slaughter in Judaea
Friday, March 12th, 2010Two things I love about the Arabs
Friday, March 12th, 2010Today’s blog is brought to you from Dubai, courtesy of Emirates Airlines, which is sponsoring the city’s annual Festival of Literature. As always when I’m in the Middle East, I’m instantly reminded why it is that Britons from TE Lawrence to the Prince of Wales to pretty much anyone who has ever worked in our [...]
How the British Establishment is conspiring to prop up the AGW myth
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010News has just reached me that the great Professor Ian Plimer, scourge of climate-fear-promoters everywhere, has been suddenly disinvited by the Royal Society of Artists (RSA) from a lecture he was due to give in May before an audience including the Duke of Edinburgh.
Here’s part of the embarrassed kiss-off Prof Plimer received from the RSA’s [...]
Why we need more conservative madrassas
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Watching another dismal episode of the BBC’s Question Time last week, I realised why British politics is in such a dire state. It’s because the language of debate has been hijacked so comprehensively by the liberal left that not even conservatives dare speak up for right-wing views any more for fear of being dismissed as [...]
The majesty and usefulness of recycling captured in an exquisite hand-crafted child’s toy
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010A Texas reader, Robert Birch, wishes to draw your attention to a magnificent artistic creation he is selling on Ebay, which he lovingly constructed from 100 per cent recycled materials (not all of them organic, unfortunately, but still…). Clearly he believes as passionately in the virtues of recycling as I do. Unfortunately I can’t seem [...]
What Dave and his chum Barack don’t want you to know about green jobs and green energy
Monday, March 8th, 2010Green jobs are a waste of space, a waste of money, a lie, a chimera. You know that. I know that. We’re familiar with the report by Dr Gabriel Calzada Alvarez of the Rey Juan Carlos University in Spain which shows that for every “green job” that is created another 2.2 jobs are LOST in [...]