James Delingpole

Just back from the Oxford Union where, last night, we debated the motion: This House Would Put Economic Growth Before Combatting Climate Change. Though I wouldn’t necessarily say I sucked, my performance definitely wasn’t as strong as the one I gave at Heartland. Luckily I had the benefit of a blindingly good team in the [...]

Well of course I would write a headline like that having just spent the last three days in Chicago at the Heartland Institute’s 4th International Conference on Climate Change. This is the event the cackling, cloak-wearing, befanged AGW-denying community attends every year to glorify in their own evil. And naturally, in the wake of Climategate, [...]

Remember those innocent days when we used to worry about whose finger was on the nuclear trigger?
Well much more dangerous now, I’m afraid, is the man with his finger on the nuclear off-button.
His name’s Chris “Chicken Licken” Huhne and unfortunately he’s Britain’s new Secretary of the Environment and Climate Change.
You can quite understand the rationale [...]

Oh dear. This is sad. There’s a very sorry-looking figure standing with his back to the wall, arm pathetically half-raised, wearing an expression half way between sheepish and desperate pleading. “Pick me! Pick me!” his doe eyes beg.
But it is not to be. The hearty captains Cameron and Clegg have picked all the players they [...]

1. It will all be over soon.
2. Lib Dem voters hate it even more than we do. (Rather surprisingly given that they’re never going to see this much power for at least the next seven millennia).
3. When David Miliband becomes prime minister on the back of this disaster at least it won’t be quite as [...]

Did you ever see a more moving picture? (Well, apart from all the other moving pictures involving polar bears). What particularly moves me is how wafer thin that ice is and how oh-so-far it is from land. Weep, oh readers, weep for the terrible plight of poor Ursus maritimus, the bear we all helped kill [...]