James Delingpole's Blog, page 39

Why the BBC cannot be trusted on 'Climate Change': the full story

When the history of the greatest pseudoscience fraud in history  -aka "Climate Change" – comes to be written, no media organisation, not even the Guardian or the New York Times, will deserve greater censure than the steaming cess pit of ecofascist bias that is the BBC. That's because, of all the numerous  MSM outlets which have been acting as the green movement's useful idiots, the BBC is the only one which is taxpayer funded and which is required by its charter to adopt an ideologically neutral position.

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'I want to be remembered for the science' says Phil 'Climategate' Jones to chorus of titters

Professor Phil Jones, the 'scientist' at the heart of the Climategate emails has spoken out. "Hopefully they will remember me for the scientific papers I have written rather than the emails," he has said in an interview with the mysterious, paywall-hidden void that used to be known as the Times.

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BP oil spill: 'mass hysteria on a par with the Dutch tulip bubble'

Some of the more hysterical members of the ecotard commentariat are still banging on about the BP Oil Spill as if it were the worst environmental disaster in the history of mankind. Right up there with Chernobyl, they're saying. And in that comparison at least they're absolutely right. Like Chernobyl, the BP Oil Spill was an accident far more terrifying in the press handouts of environmental lobbyists than it proved to be in real life.

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Bastiat: Thank You!

I'd just like to say thank you for all those of you who sent me your good wishes for the Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism.

And to those of you who wished otherwise, my friend George W. Bush has a special message for you.

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Better that a thousand liberals die than that one Al Qaeda terrorist should be waterboarded!

From Dubya's new memoirs:

Of the thousands of terrorists we captured in the years after 9/11, about a hundred were placed into the CIA program. About a third of those were questioned using enhanced techniques. Three were waterboarded.

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Liberty: it's an easier sell than you'd think

Something really quite bizarre happened to me yesterday. I was on a BBC political programme – Daily Politics; (My section is exactly 18 minutes in) I was up against a very wily politician, Ken Livingstone; I was being interviewed by a presenter who, in characteristic BBC style, was almost certainly way to the left of me and keen to brand me as the heartless, uncaring, right-wing, public school toff I'm actually not.

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Education in horror

When my brother and I were teenagers growing up in the arse end of nowheresville — Bromsgrove to its friend — we were mainly looked after by Nanny VHS. Every day, Mummy would take us to the rental store to hire a new video so as to keep us off her back. Sometimes it would be war porn, like The Deerhunter, which I think we must have watched about eight times — and the key Russian Roulette scene about 500 times. Sometimes it would be horror porn like Shivers or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

I'd quite forgotten I'd seen Shivers until I watched A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (BBC4, Monday)…

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Life's too short to be nice to Lefties

Now I know why so many people hate me. It came to me in a flash during dinner with a group of bright, articulate, well-balanced sixth-formers from Roedean girls' school.

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Why being Green means never having to say you're sorry

One of the stories from the Bible I've never quite understood is the parable of the Prodigal Son. So this utterly useless git prematurely grabs his share of his inheritance, goes out into the world, blows it on being stupid, loses everything, then comes back to his father with his tail between his legs and what happens?

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Only the Tea Party can save us now

Arriving back at Heathrow late on Sunday night I felt – as you do on returning to Britain these days – as if I were entering a failed state. It's not just the Third World shabbiness which is so dispiriting. It's the knowledge that from its surveillance cameras to its tax regime, from its (mostly) EU-inspired regulations to its whole attitude to the role of government, Britain is a country which has forgotten what it means to be free.

God how I wish I were American right now.

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