James Delingpole's Blog, page 41

What on earth is Bob Ward?

A few days ago I had the rare pleasure of listening to quite possibly the most revoltingly parti pris, cloying, wrongheaded, disgraceful and thrillingly, collectably awful radio programme since the days of Lord Haw Haw. It was on ABC – Australia's answer to the BBC: you can read the transcript here – and purported to present a reasonable and balanced view on Climate Change, courtesy of an "expert" named Bob Ward.

Bob Who?

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Global warming fraud: the tide begins to turn

Funny business, blogging. Sometimes, you put up a post you personally think is genius and no one gives a damn. Other times, you put up a post you imagine is fairly routine – and suddenly the internet goes mental.

US physics professor: "Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life" definitely belonged in the latter category.

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10:10: who are YOU going to kill to help save the planet?

Hey kids, the big day's here. It's 10/10/10 and that if you've been following the campaign of Franny Armstrong, Richard Curtis, Eugenie and all their other nicely-spoken, privately-educated, Daddy-funded, Guardian-reading trustafarian chums at 10:10, you'll know that means just one thing: Climate Action.

So what are you going to do today? Here are a few suggestions, inspired Richard Curtis's campaign video which has proved so successful that at least 20,000 10:10 signatories were inspired to resign. Well done Richard!

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US physics professor: 'Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life'

Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Here is his letter of resignation to Curtis G. Callan Jr, Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society…

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No Pressure: Monckton, Watts, Delingpole, Presley, Bin Laden join 10:10 Campaign

Richard Curtis's tasteful, witty, characteristically light touch No Pressure video for the 10:10 campaign has attracted some new recruits. And I'm one of them, I'm pleased to discover from 10:10's website. So too is Osama Bin Laden, Elvis Presley, Nessie of Loch Ness – (H/T Richard Tol) – and at least three of the world's most distinguished evil climate change deniers, Anthony Watts, the late Michael Crichton and Lord Monckton. So I'm grateful to which ever generous-spirited soul it was who volunteered me.

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We need more armed police – but do they have to be like the ones who killed Mark Saunders?

I doubt there is a single person reading this who has not been appalled by the case of Mark Saunders, the barrister shot dead by police while depressed, drunk, desperate and having pathetically taken pot shots at houses with his shotgun. While I don't believe that the jury could have reached any other verdict than the one they did – if the police marksmen swear on oath they felt threatened and that Saunders was a danger to the public, then clearly it must be just the way they describe it – I doubt I'm the only person who believes that this poor man deserved a better chance than the one he got.

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Shadow cabinet elections: new blood for the Eton Grocer's cabinet?

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh: neither Chris Bryant nor Shaun Woodward has been elected to Ed Miliband's Labour shadow cabinet. Woodward will now have more time to spend with his butler, Bryant with his underpants. Their political careers are effectively over.

Or are they?

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10:10's 'No Pressure' exploding kids campaign: why it was such a success

10:10's "Go green kids or we'll blow you into tiny pieces" campaign has gone viral – its video, as Richard North notes, having been viewed well over a million times on YouTube, as well as being celebrated in numerous parodies.

As you can imagine, the question everyone is asking in Eco Medialand is: "How do we replicate this marvellous success? How do we get everyone talking about us, in the way everyone is now talking about Franny and Eugenie and the gang?"

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How can you tell when Dave Cameron's lying?

I'm not sure exactly what it is like being eaten alive by bullet ants. But I can't imagine that the experience can be significantly more excruciating than the ordeal I've just endured listening to the hot-needles-in-the-eye bilge and twaddle being spouted by David Cameron at the Tory party conference.

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Why the Child Benefit cuts have made me despise Cameron's 'Conservatives' even more than I did already

Not because it's going to leave my family nearly two grand a year out of pocket. But because of the way the Conservatives have made such heavy weather of it. Really, the case for cutting child benefit for the (relatively) affluent middle classes ought to be a no-brainer. How can it possibly make sense to have a system where the government steals earners' income through taxes and then gives a tiny sliver of it back to them with a prissy label attached saying: "This is to be spent on your children?" As if, somehow, left to their own devices, salaried parents would instead blow their wodge on Albanian donkey porn and Krispy Kreme donuts?

There are two reasons we have been brought to this sorry pass…

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