James Delingpole's Blog, page 66

How to alienate all my readers: I love Stephen Fry too

Yes, of course Tim Collard's going to rise to the defence of Stephen Fry. Tim's a self-confessed pinko, and so very much is Fry.

I, on the other hand, am not. Fry and I would probably agree with one another on minor social issues like drugs or homosexuality. But definitely not on the things that are really important, like the degree to which the state should have control over our lives.

Fry couldn't have supported Labour all these years if he didn't believe, fundamentally, in 'progressive...

Hmm. Can't imagine what Major Malik Nadal Hasan's motivation could have been

Nor it seems can the liberal mainstream media.

I was watching BBC's Newsnight when the story broke of a killing spree at a Texas military base and instantly wondered – as I'm sure did 99.99 per cent of its other viewers – whether this had anything to do with the Religion of Peace. Then a news update came in that the suspect's name was 'Hasan'. But the BBC's reporter hastened to reassure us that there was "no evidence" to suggest this was an act of "terrorism". Phew! Perish the unworthy...

The Spectator's editor agrees: the only way out of this ghastly Euro fudge is OUT

I never tire of reading Fraser Nelson's political analysis. Not because he's my new editor at the Spectator and I feel I ought to suck up to him but because, like me, he's right about everything. But he's right about everything in a much clever and more insightful way than I am. Mostly I tend to wing it, whereas Fraser totally knows his stuff.

What he has to say in Spectator Coffee House about the Conservatives' new non-policy on Europe is an essential read.

He starts off quite kindly towards C...

Enough eloquent excuses, Dave: the only place for a Conservative Britain in Europe is out

Today David Cameron is going to explain plausibly, reasonably and, for all I know, convincingly just why it is that he has no option other than to welsh on his promise to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. And lots of clever commentators will pile in, as the imminent Lord Finkelstein has already with his characteristic wit, charm and insight, to confirm that, no really, Dave Cameron is as rabidly Eurosceptical as any of us, but that he is also a pragmatist; and that what you have to...

In the name of JUSTICE we MUST send Mark Thatcher to Equatorial Guinea

If we didn't, it would be a terrible opportunity missed, don't you think?

I'm so addicted to email, Facebook and Twitter, I have to hide it from my wife

Only connected: while writing this article, James Delingpole looked at 51 emails, joined a Facebook debate and checked his Twitter pages Photo: Eddie Mulholland

A friend of mine was driving his family back from their half-term hols in Cornwall and the journey was taking far longer than it should. Two hours in and Tom's fingers were starting to twitch. After four hours, he'd had enough.

"What are you doing?" said his wife Kate.

"Er just, you know, um checking my emails," said Tom.

"But we're ...

Official: UK law now says ManBearPig-worship is a religion to rank alongside Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc

Oh dear, it's official (nearly): a belief in man-made climate change grants you the same anti-discrimination protection in the British work-place you'd get if, say, you were a Muslim and your employer forced you to eat pork, or you were a Christian and your boss insisted you sacrifice a big black cock at the stroke of midnight on the Winter Solstice in the middle of a ruddy great pentacle, or you were a Rastafarian, and your boss wouldn't allow you to pop outside for your statutory religious ...

10 Reasons Why It Won't Be So Bad When The Tories Get In

Yes I know, I know. I'm clutching at straws here. The incoming Tory administration will be so disappointing that some of us – me, for example – are already christening it The Great Disappointment (TM).

Cameron's sell-out on Europe was, of course, the final nail in the coffin. As I'm sure I must have said before – not that you don't know anyway – a Tory government within a Socialist superstate is a contradiction in terms. Until some Conservative firebrand has the balls to acknowledge this and, ...

Want to live on a film set? How Hollywood is bringing New Orleans, Paris and Berlin to a location near you

A computer-generated image of how a Venetian street scene might look, with cut-away views of the property interiors. Pinewood has been the location for every other great (and not-so-great) film you've ever seen

You may never have visited Pinewood Studios but you've definitely been there before. To pass through the gates of its 100-acre site in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire is to experience that same strange sensation - part unsettling, part comforting - that you get in a recurring dream.

The...

Sir David King condemns green scaremongering; Herod condemns child abuse; Osama Bin Laden condemns Islamist terrorism; etc

Professor Sir David King – Tony Blair's former chief scientific advisor and foot-and-mouth massacre guru – has spoken out against climate change alarmism. He has told the Times:

"When people overstate happenings that aren't necessarily climate change-related, or set up as almost certainties things that are difficult to establish scientifically, it distracts from the science we do understand. The danger is they can be accused of scaremongering. Also, we can all become described as kind of...