British Right-Wing Pundits

But that post can't be egregious bollocks, because as the heading to his blog says "James Delingpole is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who is right about everything."

:D

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/jan/24/james-delingpole-tv-interview

I don't believe many of his views are sincerely held, or that he has thought deeply about AGW or 'working-class comedy' (harking back to this morning’s nonsense on R4).

Uh, working class comedy?

the mail on sunday was manufacturing outrage over a bbc controller saying they should have more shows in working class settings. allo, allo creator blamed that for his latest not getting commissioned.

lol @ this linked in the comments:

http://globalwarmingsuperheroes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/james-delingpole.jpg

allo, allo creator blamed that for his latest not getting commissioned

... surely not Jeremy Lloyd!

It was a discussion on Today about whether BBC comedy was too middle class. Delingpole had no useful opinions and just took the opportunity to witter on about the license fee and Hampstead liberal elites as per fucking usual.

xp afraid so: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1349704/BBC-controller-Danny-Cohen-wants-blue-collar-comedy-How-patronising.html

Lollingpole, , advocating setting the people free by not only headquartering businesses in low-tax countries, forcing employees to drop their union memberships and ordering staff to take unreasonable paycuts, but by providing a shitty service and ignoring competition and advertising laws:

One of the greatest advances for personal freedom in the last twenty years was the rise of the low cost airline. Suddenly, thanks to Ryanair, Easyjet and their many imitators, European travel was transformed from the rare luxury of the few into something almost everyone could enjoy, often two or three times a year.

[...]

One of the key tenets of Conservatism is a desire to set people free: free of the shackles of the state, free to forge their own destiny, free to spend their money on as many exciting new opportunities as a burgeoning market is prepared to offer them.

The ideological rot that is destroying English conservatism

otm pash

N IS FOR… NIGGER

Perfectly acceptable, nay, compulsory if you are a rapper; no longer so if you are Guy Gibson in The Dam Busters (when the 1955 film is shown now, his faithful black dog’s unfortunate name is often bleeped out). Nor even if you are Huckleberry Finn: in a new version of his Adventures, the offending word – used in Mark Twain’s 1884 classic 217 times – was replaced by “slave”.

(when the 1955 film is shown now, his faithful black dog’s unfortunate name is often bleeped out)

probably no surprise to anyone that this isn't true

wish we could put delingpole in a sack and throw him in a river...d is for 'drowning'

Blogs

Damian Thompson
Benedict Brogan
Norman Tebbit
Toby Young
James Delingpole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jfyy_qMg2o

Y IS FOR… YOOFS
Who, thanks to our failing education system's "all shall have prizes" ethos, believe that the world owes them not only a living but also three taxpayer-subsidised years of rutting and drug-taking at university. Tell them it is unaffordable, and they riot around the Cenotaph. This is the generation whose parents were too caring to say "no".

Poor James Delingpole, denied so many opportunities, told "no" so often by his parents :(

It is now many years since I last thought meanly of myself for not having been elected a member of the Buller. But looking at those pictures in the papers this week of Dave Cameron, Boris Johnson and the rest of the '87 gang preening and pouting in full Buller rig did bring it all flooding back to me: the shame, the humiliation and the abject misery I felt the day I realised that I would never be smart, rich, titled, decadent or popular enough to be elected a member of the world's best university's smartest dining society.

Quite.

It is now many years MILLISECONDS since I last thought meanly of myself for not having been elected a member of the Buller. But looking at those pictures in the papers this week of Dave Cameron, Boris Johnson and the rest of the '87 gang preening and pouting in full Buller rig did bring it all flooding back to me: the shame, the humiliation and the abject misery I felt the day I realised that I would never be smart, rich, titled, decadent or popular enough to be elected a member of the world's best university's smartest dining society.

Fixed.

take it to TMI please people

Amazing insight from the Adam Smith Institute:

In most coffee shops these days, you'll find that the small, medium, and large coffee cups all use the same size lid now, whereas even five years ago they used to have different size lids for the different cups. That small change in the geometry of the cups means that somebody can save a little time in setting up the coffee shop, preparing the cups, getting your coffee, and getting out. Millions of little discoveries like that, combined with some very big discoveries, like the electric motor and antibiotics, have made the quality of life for people today dramatically higher than it was 100 years ago.

And it's people being paid a good living wage to notice and write about these little changes that keeps the world turning...

and, of course, an indenture in the head of the person who designed the cups in the first place for not thinking of it from the off.

That A-Z of Political Correctness and the comments that follow is just beyond belief. Thing is, the people who bang on about PC the most are the rightwingers - lefties really don't give that much of a monkeys about it.

And it doesn’t just happen on this issue but on so many others too. Consider how, for example, the left-liberal bully mob exploited the story about the snogging gay couple turned away from a London pub, or the one about the other gay couple who – quite by accident I’m sure – booked themselves into a Cornish hotel run by ardent Christians who insisted rooms should be shared by married couples only. In both those cases important issues of genuine concern to the wellbeing of our country – how far should minority “rights” be allowed to trump property rights and freedom of choice, for example? – were drowned in a sea of Twitterish name-calling. Anyone who tried putting the counterargument – even someone like me with almost as many gay friends as straight ones – was blithely written off as a homophobe.

This is the kind of moral and intellectual decadence that is leading once free and prosperous nations like Britain and the US into decline and ultimately towards ruination. And what’s really depressing is just how few people are aware of it, let alone fighting it. For example, I noticed several self-described conservatives in the comments below parading just how offended they too were by the NoW’s underhand techniques. Well, yes. Duh! Everyone was, you blithering idiots (except maybe the tabloid hacks and private investigators who were doing of it).

But here’s the thing, while the liberal-left (and its useful idiots on the alleged right, I fear) are busy demonstrating to the world how caring and nice they are, really bad dangerous things are being done in the name of caringness and niceness. I think of the environmental and economic damage which is being done behind a cloak of ecological virtue. [For myriad examples see my new book Watermelons] I think of the suicidal deficit which is being stoked for fear of offending public service workers (who, as we know, are so much more caring and nice and altruistic than anyone in the productive sector of the economy). I think of the freedoms which are being taken away and the unfairnesses codified and the further suicide bombings being invited in the name of being nice and caring to various minorities. I think of the jobs that are being lost and the recovery delayed by a government too scared to lower the tax rate lest it be thought insufficiently caring and nice towards the deserving poor.

Those minorities with their crazy “rights”.

"some of my best friends are of the homosexual persuasion"

[For myriad examples see my new book Watermelons, self-published via Amazon's Kindle because no fucker will publish a whole book of my badly-written anti-science bullshit]

Usually a sounds like a smug troll trying to wind up the left but here he sounds like a bona fide, frothing, Glenn Beckian maniac.

Some full-on one-world-government craziness here:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100095817/un-reveals-its-master-plan-for-destruction-of-global-economy/

Tags: Kuznets curve, Limits to growth, more dangerous than Al Qaeda, new world order, rationing, Rob Vos, United Nations, Watermelons, World Economic and Social Survey 2011

All this talk of watermelons is making me feel hungry!

'raaaacist'

^^ ok so this is some sub taking the piss out of dely p, right?

I worry about him - as DL says he seems to be moving into real crazy territory. He's even having a go at his supporters in the first one.

worry about him in the sense that maybe he won't die in the next 6 months?

the one about the other gay couple who – quite by accident I’m sure – booked themselves into a Cornish hotel run by ardent Christians who insisted rooms should be shared by married couples only

is this sarcastic? really? like there is a dastardly plot in which of course they interrogated the capacity for bigotry of the hoteliers before they set-off?

There was actually a very balanced doc on Radio 4 a few months ago interviewing both the couple and the owners and discovering what happened and clearly it was an accident. But why check facts when you can insert parenthetical smears?

i just didn't know that there was even an assumption that this was obviously or presumably a gay plot, you know.

right wing nutbars = everything's a plot

= easy way to make a living.

"Twitterish name-calling"

Delingpole now has blood on his hands:

Although Breivik’s conspiracy theories are insane, they are in line with mainstream opinion among American conservatives. He cites Christopher Monckton’s speech before the Minnesota Free Market Institute in 2009, accusing President Obama of trying to cede United States sovereignty to the United Nations through climate treaties. Monckton — a rabid conspiracy theorist who claims his opponents are Nazis — was a Republican witness before Congress on global warming in 2010.

Breivik also believed that the “Climategate” hacking incident “revealed how top scientists conspired to falsify data in the face of declining global temperatures in order to prop up the premise that man-made factors are driving climate change.”

One of his sources for this delusional claim is right-wing climate conspiracy theorist James Delingpole, who regularly appears on Fox News, including Glenn Beck‘s now defunct show. The Norwegian terrorist also cited climate conspiracy blogger Steve McIntyre, who appeared in a one-hour Fox News special on global warming in 2009. McIntyre’s conspiracy theories have been promoted by Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK). Dozens of Republican members of Congress have endorsed the Climategate conspiracy theory.

well, not really. unless, like, herbert marcuse is to be held responsible for andreas baader.

lets dig up marcuses corpse and hold a synod!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2025490/Somalia-famine-makes-mockery-world-I-come-from.html

"a pathetic attempt at pride"

just kidding old girl, you did good, just try to curb that ditzy matrician schtick once a bloody paragraph, you're not talking about nirpal now

Could hardly bring myself to read past "This woman did what she had to do. If she allowed herself that ultimate Western accessory depression, then she would just lie down in the sand and die."

That's actually worse than the parody twitter account suggested it might be.

And at least that had the grace to turn out to be a charity stunt.

The knives are out for Herman Cain, as of course they would be. He's personable, he's clever, he's funny, he has a proven business track record, he's small government, he has original ideas, he's post-political, he'd make a way better US president than either Perry or Romney (let alone Obama). But most damningly of all, he's black.

But the real loathing and resentment will come from the other side. Remember, it was the GOP which campaigned to end the slave trade, not the Democrats.

Delingpole: the Voice of 1865

"original ideas" such as insane tax reforms.

I'm sure it's quite possible that the allegations are true. Likely, even. As we know, politics attracts men who are addicted to power; power is aphrodisiacal. Cain would hardly be the first type A individual to make a flagrant pass at an attractive woman. Sure these things must be a huge pain to put up with if you're female. But the idea that such wearisomely routine alpha male behaviour ought to render a man unsuitable for high political office is naive in the extreme: Palmerston? Lloyd George? Bill Clinton?

pick-up/men's rights lingo getting mainstreamed is one of the hidden stories of the last few years imo

this man's slow-but-painful death cannot come quickly enuff imho

The fact that 21st century Telegraph bloggers are allowed to tag their posts with "uppity negro" for SEO purposes says something about the whole enterprise, although I'm not quite sure what.

The Telegraph: your top news source for all your uppity negro news.