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If any business were to submit a prospectus as patently false and deliberately dishonest as the ones used to advance the cause of the global warming industry, its directors would all be in prison by now...

Did you hear the song Aussie comic Tim Minchin wrote savagely satirising Islam for Channel 4's Eid special? No, I didn't either. It didn't happen and it never would happen: first because no broadcast station in its right...

Have you been enjoying the saga about the wind farms that might or might not kill whales? I do hope so. The aspect of it which I have particularly enjoyed is the sanctimonious and hypocritical rage of a vociferous lobby group...

Last week in the Spectator I wrote a piece which I knew was going to get me into trouble. And indeed, to read some of the reaction since, you’d think I’d been advocating military intervention in support of Col...

Christopher Booker has spotted a boo boo in Sir Paul Nurse’s BBC Horizon documentary. Well, several, actually, but this one’s the worst: The most telling moment, however, came in an interview between Nurse and...

Ben Goldacre says I’m a “penis.” He has told his 85,000 or so followers as much on Twitter. I’m also “absolutely a dick”, he goes on to tell his fan base, lest any of them doubt Ben’s...