James Delingpole's Blog, page 34

Sarah Palin is a kingmaker, not the next US president

Just because it's Sarah Palin month on Telegraph blogs, some readers have mistakenly imagined that we're using our enormous power as the UK blogosphere's answer to Fox News to ensure that she becomes the next US president. But we're not.

I think I can speak for most of us here when I say that though Sarah Palin is undoubtedly hot – and is probably the only person in the world capable of outdoing Vladimir Putin when it comes to posing for semi-pornographic outdoor photoshoots with rod, horse and gun – her real value is as a kingmaker not as POTUS.

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There was nothing 'illiberal' about David Cameron's speech on multiculturalism

David Cameron's Munich speech on the failure of multiculturalism and the threat of Islamism is his best and most important since becoming Prime Minister.

What are puzzling me are some of the reactions. Of course, an opportunist leftie like Sadiq Khan MP could have been expected to play the minority grievance card. (Though as Toby Young notes, many on the left are so far playing a very cautious game; see eg today's mealy-mouthed editorial in The Observer) What surprise me far more are some of the responses I've seen from avowed libertarians, such as the mighty, deliciously outspoken blogger Old Holborn.

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Yippee ki yay, liberals! It's Sarah Palin Month on Telegraph Blogs!

Did any of you catch that brilliant Charlie Brooker demolition of Sarah Palin on Channel 4's zappy, new, heavily promoted topical comedy/politics show 10 o'clock Live the other night?

For those who missed it, let me tell you what his insights were…

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Meet The Sceptics: another BBC stitch-up

Lots of people have been asking me about tonight's BBC Four documentary Meet The Sceptics. Is it going to be fair and balanced? Or another hatchet job?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. (*laughs darkly*)

Let me tell you the story so far:

Nine months ago, when I was at the Heartland conference in Chicago, I was approached by a louche, affable, dark-haired, public school charmer called Rupert Murray. With his friend Callum he was making a documentary about climate sceptics for the BBC and wondered if I'd like to take part.

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Sir Paul Nurse's big boo boo

Christopher Booker has spotted a boo boo in Sir Paul Nurse's BBC Horizon documentary. Well, several, actually, but this one's the worst…

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The curious double standards of Simon Singh

I know I promised that I wasn't going to post about that ruddy Horizon documentary again but I'm afraid my hand has been forced by Simon Singh.

Yes, Simon Singh as in the popular mathematician and bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem. And also, more germanely to this story, the recent victim of an expensive libel action brought against him by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA). The BCA eventually dropped its action – but not before Singh had run up £200,000 in legal costs. Though some it his lawyers will be able to claim back, he's still likely to lose £60,000 of his own money as a result of his brave, principled decision to fight the case rather than cave in earlier.

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What BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans thinks about global warming

A reader has very kindly transcribed a discussion on BBC Radio 2 on Climate Change. (US readers please note: Chris Evans is one of Britain's most popular talk show hosts, drawing more than 8 million viewers a week; Moira Stewart is an elegant, much-loved ex-newsreader) (UK readers: no this really isn't a conversation transcribed from an old Viz episode of The Pathetic Sharks). The show on January 26 was dedicated to "all scientists and their assistants".

Chris Evans (CE) and Moira Stewart (MS) discuss Global Warming.

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If Ben Goldacre thinks I'm a ***** what does that make him?

Ben Goldacre says I'm a "penis." He has told his 85,000 or so followers as much on Twitter. I'm also "absolutely a dick", he goes on to tell his fan base, lest any of them doubt Ben's commitment to the view that I am some kind of penile appendage.

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Oh no, not another unbiased BBC documentary about 'Climate Change'…

The new president of the Royal Society, Sir Paul Nurse has been crowing to the Guardian's environment pages about how he bested me in a documentary for the BBC on Climate Change. This isn't how I remember it.

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What Green MP Caroline Lucas should know about Liberal Fascism…

In today's Guardian Britain's first and (thank Gaia!) only Green MP Caroline Lucas tells us that climate change is "one of the greatest threats" to Britain since the Second World War. Her solution is for Britain to "mobilise as a nation in a way we haven't seen since 1945″.

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