James Delingpole's Blog, page 67

It's YOUR fault the kittens and puppies will drown, Daddy!

When my 11-year-old son confessed the other day that he'd blurted out to his teacher in a typically eco-minded geography class 'My dad says –manmade global warming is rubbish!', I couldn't have been more proud.

In my schooldays, geography used to be about unarguable facts such as the shape of an Oxbow lake or the capital of Australia. Now the subject has been so corrupted by the pious sermons of the green lobby that it ought really to be rechristened...

Paternity leave? Any man who says he wants it is really a liar…

Nearly half of all new fathers are refusing to take their paternity leave entitlement because they'd rather be at work, a survey has found. Well, quelle surprise.

I could have told you that. In fact, it was a point I was arguing a month ago on Radio 4's Woman's Hour when I told Jenni Murray that men aren't nearly as well designed for childcare as women; that, frankly, we'd rather be in the office than at home with the children.

My goodness, you should have heard the foaming outrage! Many women ...

Greens, like Nazis, see the entire world through the prism of one big idea: theirs

The Kindly Ones — Les Bienveillantes if you read it in French, which I didn't — is probably the most brilliant piece of trash fiction ever written. I dedicated most of the summer to Jonathan Littell's much-praised, internationally bestselling blockbuster and loved almost every minute of it.

But it's definitely not as great as Le Figaro thinks: 'A monument of contemporary literature.' Nor Le Monde: 'A staggering triumph.' Nor yet Anita Brookner who claimed, in The Spectator no less, that it is ...

There will be blood

All right, I surrender. There's just no way on earth I can deal in 600 words with all the great, or potentially great, TV that has been on lately. Emma; Alex: A Passion for Life (the sequel to that moving documentary about the brilliant Etonian musician with cystic fibrosis); Generation Kill. Truly, it has been what we classical scholars call a Weekus Mirabilis. I'm going to deal with just three offerings.

First, Criminal Justice (BBC1, all week for a whole hour each night, which is a serious...

Question Time: is that panel really the best they can do?

Nick Griffin is the greatest orator since Pericles. He has gravitas such as we have not witnessed since Winston Churchill's "blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech. His rapier wit makes Oscar Wilde sound like John Prescott. He has the encyclopaedic knowledge of a Paul Johnson; the courage of Charles Upham VC and bar; the loveability of Stephen Fry; the dramatic power of Fiona Shaw in some exceptionally moving new play about a lesbian who is slowly tortured to death by homophobic society…

Actuall...

Copenhagen: a step closer to one-world government?

You have to be careful when talking about "One World Government." Sooner than you can say "Bilderberg", you'll find yourself bracketed with all the crazies, and conspiracy theorists and 9/11 Truthers. But I don't think you need to be mad to be concerned about the issues raised by Lord Monckton in this speech.

Monckton believes that climate change hysteria is being exploited by the green liberal left – watermelons, as they're nicknamed: green on the outside; red on the inside – to usher in a...

I'm glad that the BNP's Nick Griffin is appearing on Question Time

Nick Griffin will appear on Question Time on Thursday (Photo: PA)

Well I'm sorry, but I am. I'm glad for various reasons, some of which have to do with freedom of speech and the democratic right of political parties which have won seats in local councils and in Europe to be represented on Britain's main political debating programme.

Mainly, though, I'm glad because of the discomfiture it has caused among the chattering-idiot classes. Though personally I despise the BNP – as I do all parties o...

Why is Cameron getting into bed with this dumb Blond?

Every now and then another moronically stupid political idea comes along which lots of people conspire temporarily to believe in because it sounds groovy and different. Some people call these trendy new theories paradigm shifts. I prefer to call them by the more accurate appellation of  total and utter b***ocks.

In the Blair era we had "The Third Way"; in the Cameron era we can apparently look forward to something called Red Toryism.

Red Toryism, my bull***t detectors tell me is pretty much...

Not even God believes in Anthropogenic Global Warming any more, Archbishop

Do you drive a car? Fly abroad occasionally? Hope your salary will get bigger? Want your kids to be more comfortably off than you are?

Oh dear. Then it's Outer Darkness for you, my friend.

Or so reckons the Archbishop of Canterbury. Apparently, according to a speech he gave in Southwark Cathedral the other day in a talk sponsored by the Christian environmentalist group Operation Noah, you are living "inhumanly." (Hat Tip: Philip Foster)

Here's how the celebrity Muppet-/Druid-/The-Master...

Pen Hadow: Arctic Pillock – the comedy saga continues

Jo Abbess, BSc, WILL be pleased. After its all-too-brief flirtation with climate change reality, the BBC is back to its old ways.

Yesterday on the Today programme, one of its chief climate fear promoters (aka environment correspondent) Roger Harrabin reported the appropriately spine-chilling news that the Arctic sea ice is definitely going to melt by 2020. How do we know this? Because a Cambridge professor claims so based on ice measurements taken by Pen Hadow's Catlin Arctic Survey.

Say what? ...