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Why I keep banging on and on about Global bloody Warming

"Can't you find something else to talk about?" someone (a nice, sympathetic person, not one of my house herd of festering libtard trolls) commented below one of my previous blogs.

So let me explain, briefly, why I rarely can – with reference to the ludicrous story which was given the front page of today's Times (formerly a newspaper of some note).

The story, enthusiastically headlined EU SETS TOUGHEST TARGETS TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING goes like this:

Europe will introduce a surprise new plan...

Pope Catholic; night follows day; IPCC found telling pack of lies about sea level rises

IPCC lies, cheats, distorts again. Yes, all right, it is a bit of a "dog bites man" or "pizza found to contain mozzarella and tomato resting on dough base" kind of story. But on the day in which Britain's new Prime Minister announced in the Queen's speech that one of his government's main goals is to "combat climate change", it's perhaps just as well to remind ourselves of the kind of junk science and misinformation that is inspiring his green policies. (Hat tip: Barry Woods)

This one comes...

'We must live more sustainably' says Jeremy 'Seven Homes' Irons

The voice of Scar in the Lion King has spoken:

"We must live more sustainably," he growls from Pride Rock – as he probably doesn't call a single one of his seven homes, not even the pink castle in Co Cork, because in real life he's not a lion at all but a Sherborne-educated luvvie who takes himself very, very seriously called Jeremy Irons. (Hat tip: Brown Bess)

Irons has just announced his plans to become an eco-campaigner. He wants to be a bit like Michael Moore, he says, only not "as silly". ...

Tales of the unexpected

The closest I've come to seeing a ghost was a few months ago when we went to stay in a haunted house. We had a deeply uncomfortable night during which it was cold and hard to sleep, and in the small hours my wife was awoken by a mysterious pressure on her chest, almost as if she was suffocating, and which may have been the tortured spirit of whoever it was who had died horribly there or which might have been the heavy quilt. Dunno. Couldn't say. I'm itching to have a 100 per cent, cast-iron '...

It is left to me to point out this regrettable, overlooked fact: Dave blew it

This is a column I never thought I'd have to write. I'd assumed that the conclusions to be drawn from the general election were so bleeding obvious that I could leave all the post-match analysis to the experts, while I distracted you with something more cheerful like, say, a piece about Fergal Keane's brilliant new book on the battle of Kohima.

Apparently not, though. It seems that my job today is to point out an awkward fact that seems to have eluded about 98 per cent of political...

Greenies: the Red, the Dumb and the Angry

Just back from the Oxford Union where, last night, we debated the motion: This House Would Put Economic Growth Before Combatting Climate Change. Though I wouldn't necessarily say I sucked, my performance definitely wasn't as strong as the one I gave at Heartland. Luckily I had the benefit of a blindingly good team in the form of Lord Lawson of Blaby, Lord Leach and Viscount Monckton – who temporarily ennobled me to Lord Delingpole of Blogosphere so I didn't feel too left out.

Much to my...

Only morons, cheats and liars still believe in Man-Made Global Warming

Well of course I would write a headline like that having just spent the last three days in Chicago at the Heartland Institute's 4th International Conference on Climate Change. This is the event the cackling, cloak-wearing, befanged AGW-denying community attends every year to glorify in their own evil. And naturally, in the wake of Climategate, a mood of uproarious triumphalism has prevailed as distinguished skeptical scientists, economists, and policymakers from around the world – Pat...

Is this the most dangerous man in Britain?

Huhne, shortly after being hit by a falling acorn

Remember those innocent days when we used to worry about whose finger was on the nuclear trigger?

Well much more dangerous now, I'm afraid, is the man with his finger on the nuclear off-button.

His name's Chris "Chicken Licken" Huhne and unfortunately he's Britain's new Secretary of the Environment and Climate Change.

You can quite understand the rationale behind his appointment. "All right, so everyone loathes him so we won't give him a Cabinet s...

Oliver Wetwin, creator of Tories' inspired, election-winning manifesto, gets his just reward

Oh dear. This is sad. There's a very sorry-looking figure standing with his back to the wall, arm pathetically half-raised, wearing an expression half way between sheepish and desperate pleading. "Pick me! Pick me!" his doe eyes beg.

But it is not to be. The hearty captains Cameron and Clegg have picked all the players they wanted in their teams and already turned away to start the game. And poor Oliver Letwin – or Wetwin as they all call him behind his back because he's such a drip and he...

10 Reasons to be Cheerful About Dave's New Coalition of the Unwilling

1. It will all be over soon.

2. Lib Dem voters hate it even more than we do. (Rather surprisingly given that they're never going to see this much power for at least the next seven millennia).

3. When David Miliband becomes prime minister on the back of this disaster at least it won't be quite as bad as if we were ruled by Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot or Mugabe.

4. Or Ed Miliband.

5. If you work for a bloated management team in the NHS there's no need to cancel that holiday in the Maldives.

6. If y...