James Delingpole: Great Britain, the Green Movement, and the End of the World

This week on Uncommon Knowledge columnist James Delingpole discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, the European Union, the Green movement, and socialized medicine.

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News & Politics

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• Europe crisis
• economic
• banks
• European Union
• green movement

[slugmandrew]

"Never believe a word you read in The Economist". True, very true.

[walshbobbyca]

I love how hardcore Delingpole is.

[JackyB92]

@jamesjjjspike I get the impression he's playing devil's advocate.

[jamesjjjspike]

This guy conducting the interview needs a good brain flush...doesn't he know anything? Turn off the television you zombie and go find some facts!! facts do help if you hadn't noticed! Its a shame James Delingpole must waste his time schooling this paradigm fiend.

[scruffymale]

I wish Mr. Robinson would stop interrupting and let Mr. Delingpole finish his thoughts, especially in section five. Very annoying, not to mention rude.

[Bangell99]

His arguments on global warming are simply fatuous. You can comment on political matters but you're not a scientist. Leave science to the scientists.

[Richard482]

James Delingpole, a man who admits he doesn't have the time or scientific expertise to read peer-reviewed scientific papers.

[lewisner]

My favourite comment on Cameron was by the late great Christopher Hitchens who said "He is a content free zone. There is nothing worth talking about."

[Necr0forte]

@ManieroHT Yea, it bothered me that when talking about the Republican candidates, they failed to mention Ron Paul at all. I understand if they disagree with Paul on some things, but I think he at least deserves to be mentioned, even if to point out their belief that he's "got some good ideas but is unelectable."

[jamesthenabignumber]

Delingpole is a fraud. He has no scientific credentials at all. Endorses the most fringe opinions to be found the scientific community in order to create sensation and play to our desires.

Watch him being interviewed in a BBC horizon program on global warming. He has nothing to say about it.

He is a contributor to the mystification of scientific research among the non-specialist. It is indicative of a media who cannot report scientific study without trying to anticipate what will be agreeable.

[SkullOfYorick]

Thatcher merely replaced publicly-owned monopolies with privately-owned near-monopolies and hired an army of bureaucrats to regulate them. Public spending was higher in 1990 than in 1979. Also, she didn't understand the menace of Europe or of the '60s social revolution, till it was too late. Historians will see Blair as the far more revolutionary figure: mass immigration, a second social revolution, more Europe, more taxes, more spending, post-9/11 attacks on civil liberties.

[CrazyEddi3]

I love how goofy Delingpole is.