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Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?

If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

When you read some of those files – including 1079...

How Al Gore's amen corner Newsweek censored his critics

Today I'm off on the Eurostar to Brussels ("a carbon neutral journey" it boasts on my ticket – which rather makes me wish I were flying instead) to speak at the European Parliament on Climate Change.

No, don't worry. The Goreistas haven't got to me. It's a sceptics' conference – Have Humans Changed Climate? – being staged tomorrow by Tory MEP Roger Helmer. Many of my science and eco-heroes will be there, including Patrick Moore (the co-founder of Greenpeace who subsequently bailed when the...

Architectural magazine's editor questions Global Warming: hysteria

My heroine of the week is Amanda Baillieu, editor of architects' trade journal Building Design. She noticed that when Environment Secretary Hillary Benn gave a talk at the Royal Institute of British Architects the other day on the looming peril of ManBearPig, hardly anyone bothered to turn up.

In an extremely brave editorial entitled "Is Global Warming Hot Air?" she speculated that the reason may have been because even architects are getting tired of listening to hysterical drivel about...

Boris Johnson for Prime Minister

Over at Cameron Kool-Aid Central – aka Conservative Home – the Kool-Aid drinkers are deeply flustered by Boris Johnson's truly outrageous suggestion in today's Telegraph that Gordon Brown's 50p tax rate is a seriously bad idea.

The reason that they're upset, of course, is because neither Dave nor George Osborne has said he has any immediate intention of undoing this economically illiterate idiocy if and when they gain office.

The milksop commentator who signs himself "whuh" is typical of the...

59 per cent of UK population are 'village idiots' thunders The Times

Less than half the British population still believes in Anthropogenic Global Warming, says a new survey commissioned by The Times.

Only 41 per cent accept as an established scientific fact that global warming is taking place and is largely man-made. Almost a third (32 per cent) believe that the link is not yet proved; 8 per cent say that it is environmentalist propaganda to blame man and 15 per cent say that the world is not warming.

Even more interesting than the result, though, is the...

Nurses: if a degree means that much to your self-esteem why not become a doctor?

So you're lying in a hospital bed flecked with the blood of its previous occupant, your bedpan's piled higher than the Leaning Tower of Pisa, your saline drip needed changing five hours ago, and in the bed next to you a gang of men with dish-dashes and beards is trying to throttle a wounded young squaddie back from Afghanistan.

You press the call button for the 7928th time, and there at last she is, in her mortarboard and BSc gown.

"Nurse," you gasp. "You couldn't just…"

"Haemoglobin?" she...

I'm famous at last — thanks to the internet (and this column)

I don't know quite how to put this without sounding nauseatingly smug or dangerously hubristic, but I think I might finally have become almost-famous. The revelation occurred while I was doing Vanessa Feltz's show on BBC Radio London. I was burbling away in my usual self-hating way about how needy I am and unappreciated, and Vanessa said: 'You know a lot of listeners are going to be quite puzzled by that, because you're a successful columnist with a huge audience and you're broadcasting to...

Is Edward McMillan-Scott the most tedious, annoying and ghastly member in the entire Euro parliament?

Obviously, he faces some pretty stiff competition. But I surely can't be the only one being driven to distraction by this potato-faced turncoat's nuts-achingly tedious appearances every other day in the Guardian or on the BBC, reminding us yet again in relentless boring detail what a man of high principle he is for having been booted out of David Cameron's Conservatives.

Really? I'd say, au contraire, that the expulsion of McMillan-Scott from the Tory party represents possibly Cameron's...

Kenneth Clarke is right about Europe

Kenneth Clarke is not a Tory. No Tory would wish to surrender his country's sovereignty to a democratically unaccountable, supranational socialist organisation so thoroughly corrupt that for the 15th year running its auditors have refused to sign off its accounts.

Still less would any Tory think it a good idea to take £6.3 million of taxpayers' hard-earned cash and spank it on a blogging donkey called Asino.

Asino, as you may have read in today's Telegraph, has been touring Europe on a mission ...

As Dirty Harry was in the Seventies, so Harry Brown is today: the movie warning of just how irredeemably stuffed we are

"I know what you're thinkin', punk. You're thinkin' did he fire six shots or only five? Now to tell you the truth, I've forgotten myself in all this excitement. But bein' this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and it'll blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question. Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?!"

There's a reason why those lines from Dirty Harry are some of the most popular and oft-quoted in cinematic history: because we most of us understand...