James Delingpole's Blog, page 46

Moonbat + Amazongate = Prize Pillock

There's only one thing more satisfying than being right. That's when a shrill buffoon you utterly despise dedicates an entire column in a newspaper you loathe to accusing you of being wrong, working himself up into an almost masturbatory lather of slobbering indignation, macheting himself to ever greater heights of ecstatic fervour like some Shi'ite penitent during Ashura, giggling at his jokes, crowing at his own cleverness, earning all sorts of smarmy plaudits from his coterie of sorry...

'Climate change sceptics have smaller members, uglier wives, dumber kids' says new study made up by warmists

Are there really no depths to which ManBearPig-worshippers will not stoop in order to shore up their intellectually, morally and scientifically bankrupt cause?

Apparently not, as we see from the latest "study" – based on a petty, spiteful, Stasi-like blacklist produced by an obscure Canadian warmist – outrageously aggrandised by being published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

The study examined 1,372 scientists who had taken part in reviews...

History like it used to be

Because I was taught history properly by my prep-school teacher Mr Bradshaw, my head is full of easily accessible dates which I know I'll never forget. Obviously, I know Crécy (1346) and Agincourt (1415), but I also know one or two more obscure ones like those of Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet. This is because of a cunning acronym Brad taught me — a phone number BROM 4689 — which I dare say I remembered mainly because at the time I lived in Bromsgrove.

According to the new...

Men fight for their 'mates' — it is the secret of why they so love war

One of the nicest, gentlest fellows I've ever met is a man named Mike Dauncey. He's so terribly polite that he can't bring himself to swear even in extremis and if you had to guess what he did before he retired, you'd probably say 'country parson'. In fact, though, Brigadier Mike Dauncey DSO is a bona fide war hero, known as the 'sixth Arnhem VC'. Only five were in fact awarded at the battle. Mike was put up for the sixth, only to have the letters 'VC' crossed out on his citation and amended ...

The real villain of the Gulf oil-spill disaster: not BP but PC

Hands up who thinks BP's public image has been improved as a result of pumping upwards of half a million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, ravaging eco-systems, depriving fishermen of their livelihoods, incurring the pantomime wrath of President Obama and the undying hatred of half America?

Hmm. That's not many hands.

But I suspect your crowd wisdom is quite right here. BP has spent the last decade rebranding itself as Beyond Petroleum in order to make out that it doesn't do anything so d...

The Great Wind Farm Disaster (ctd)

Heard a great story the other day from Matt Ridley, author of the absolutely essential The Rational Optimist.

He bumped into an engineer who was hoping to land one of the lucrative contracts for the massive, insanely expensive offshore wind farm programme which Dave's new "Greener Than Anyone" administration hopes will reduce Britain's carbon footprint while simultaneously creating that the philosopher's-stone-type marvel that some men do call Green Jobs.

"What's the chance of them being built ...

Three reasons why our economy is heading for the rocks

1. The BP oil spill. It's much, much, MUCH worse than we think.

I personally have no sympathy whatsoever for BP. No Big Oil company has been more assiduous in sucking up to ecotards, bigging up the "alternative [to:] energy" industry, promoting belief in ManBearPig. But I do feel sorry for the pensioners and shareholders dependent on BP for £1 in every £6 of their dividends.

2. Dismal ManBearPig-worshipper Tim Yeo MP being made chairman of the new Energy and Climate Change committee.

Politics...

Margaret Thatcher: Climate Sceptic

There's nothing a left-liberal enjoys more than invoking a great right wing name in support of his dubious cause. Eurotards – as Richard North notes – love to cite Winston Churchill in favour of closer European union (which he was, so long as it didn't involve Britain); greenies, meanwhile, love to gloat that Margaret Thatcher was the first world leader to take the idea of Anthropogenic Global Warming seriously.

Unfortunately, as Christopher Booker reminds us in his Sunday Telegraph column...

Millionaire Chris Huhne finds new ways to waste your money

I've been trying to think which politician on earth I would rather have less in a cabinet post in the current Coalition than Chris Huhne. And with the possible exception of Hugo Chavez, Kim Jong Il or Salma "Mrs Duckham" Yaqoob, I really can't think of any.

Here he is this morning on BBC Radio 4's Today programme talking from Luxembourg where he is at a summit of European Environment Ministers. Apparently blithely unaware how hard up we all are and how we're on the brink of a double dip...

'Bow down to Peak Oil!' says BBC's Cthulu-worshipping Newsnight

Yesterday on the BBC's flagship news analysis programme Newsnight Britain's gravest, most distinguished and hard-hitting political interviewer Jeremy Paxman asked the vital questions an eager world most wants to hear: Cthulu – Are we worshipping him enough? Will it be necessary to sacrifice our children to appease him? Or will he be content if we just all erect a shrine to him, perhaps involving candles and teddy bears and Jo Malone scented oils?

No, it wasn't really Cthulu that Britain's...