James Delingpole's Blog, page 45

24 Types of Authoritarians

I found this brilliant post at the rather good (Liberal!) Libertarian website Liberal Vision. Like Julian Harris, I think my favourite entry is Bereaved Parent. (Hat tip Tim Cox at International Policy Network)

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Don't Vote For Hannan's crappy blog

Obviously I never read Dan Hannan's blogs, but if I did I might have come upon one today in which he draws his readers' (yes, both of them) attention to the Total Politics Award for the Best Political Blog. In his usual shameless way, he is hacking for your votes.

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British Gas boss announces brilliant new scheme to make Britain even more expensive and ugly

Today the man who runs British Gas was reported as saying something so culpably fatuous and wrong in every way it cannot be allowed to pass. Phil Bentley, the company's MD, reckons that our religious buildings should follow the German model and cover themselves in solar panels – making themselves as much as £29 million a year.

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California welcomes the Poodle of Lurve

Looking across at the US blogosphere, sometimes, I realise what a horrid, mean-spirited fellow I am. All I seem to want to do is say unpleasant things about green nutcases, libtards and pompous, preening, moustachioed Guardian assistant editors. In the US, on the other hand, they still observe the common courtesies. Look at this charming ad the boys at I Hate The Media took out to welcome their newest celebrity local.

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So now we can't ever enjoy Peep Show again. Thanks, David 'No but seriously, folks' Mitchell

I once met Thom Yorke. I've never been able to enjoy Radiohead albums quite as much since.

After this video on the theme of "Why climate change is serious and important, and I should know because I'm a leftie comedian and all my friends are Guardian readers" I fear something similar is now going to happen to the entire oeuvre of David Mitchell. (Hat tip: Guy Walters)

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Wikipedia Bias – Jimmy Wales does the right thing

I have written before about Wikipedia bias – especially where its coverage of "Climate Change" is concerned. Not only have all the relevant entries been hijacked by a cabal of alarmists led by one William Connolley, but known "sceptics", "deniers" and "realists" find their Wikipedia entries being doctored – not libellously so, but just enough to make the casual reader think slightly the worse of them.

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How come we now have to go to the Chinese for the truth about global warming?

Another day, another climate fraud whitewash – this time from a Dutch government inquiry, conducted by something called the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. (Hat tip: Sheumais)

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I feel the need to offer Wikipedia some ammunition in its quest to discredit me

The most excruciatingly awful thing I have ever done in my entire life happened in my penultimate year at school. At the time I was learning classical guitar and occasionally I would meet up with one of my English teachers, 'Mattie' Simpson, so that we could play duets together. On the fateful day I'm about to describe the piece we were practising was Bach's 'Air on a G String'.

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'I'm SO sorry! How will you ever be able to take me seriously again?' sobs remorse-stricken Monbiot

Well no, not quite. But the Guardian's Hair Shirt and Scorpions columnist George Monbiot has at least been frightened into taking a slightly more conciliatory line over the Amazongate fiasco.

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I'd rather stick my hand in a bag of amphetamine-injected rattlesnakes than put my trust in tonight's BBC Panorama documentary on 'Global Warming'

Let's just remind ourselves, shall we, why the BBC is constitutionally incapable of reporting on global warming in a fair, balanced or indeed honest way. On 26 January 2006, the BBC's not-notably-sceptical Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin organised a conference at BBC TV Centre called Climate Change – The Challenge To Broadcasting. (Hat tip: Nick Mabbs)

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