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James Delingpole (born 1965) is an English columnist and novelist who writes for (among other publications) The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Spectator. He has published several novels and four political books. He characterizes himself as a libertarian conservative

Early life

Delingpole was born and raised in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, the son of a factory owner. He attended Malvern College, a boarding independent school for boys in the spa town of Malvern in Worcestershire, followed by Christ Church, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, where he took English Literature. Delingpole describes himself as having been "reasonably good friends" with David Cameron and Boris Johnson while at Oxford.

Life and career

In addition to writing articles and commentary for The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Spectator, Delingpole has published four overtly political books, including: How to be Right: The Essential Guide to Making Lefty Liberals History, Welcome to Obamaland: I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn't Work, and 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy.

Delingpole is also the author of various novels including Fin and Thinly Disguised Autobiography. In August 2007, Bloomsbury published his first novel of the "Coward" series, Coward on the Beach. It tells the story of a man's reluctant quest for military glory and is set on the beaches of Normandy during the D-Day landings. In June 2009, the second novel of the series was published. Coward at the Bridge is set during Operation Market Garden in September 1944.

Delingpole hosted the BBC Four documentary The British Upper Class in 2005.

Views on climate change

Delingpole maintains that man-made climate change is not as extensive as is widely asserted, and links mainstream scientific projections with "the atavistic impulse which leads generation after generation to believe it is the chosen one: the generation so special that it and it alone will be the one privileged to experience the end of the world; and the generation so egotistical that it imagines itself largely responsible for that imminent destruction".
In a BBC Horizon documentary, Delingpole responds to the argument offered by Paul Nurse that there is a scientific consensus about global warming by asserting that the very idea of a consensus is unscientific. In response to the criticism that he has no background in the sciences he maintained that as a journalist "it is not my job" to read peer reviewed papers, his role is to be "an interpreter of interpretations".

In an article published in the Daily Telegraph on 25 January 2012 Delingpole described the environmentalist organization Friends Of The Earth as "a viciously misanthropic, anti-capitalist political organisation funded by deep-green ecoloons who given half the chance would have us all living in Maoist peasant collectives while they busily bombed our economy back to the dark ages".

In July 2011 Delingpole wrote that "There has been no global warming since 1998". He reasserted this position in a Sky News discussion with the Guardian journalist Julie Bindel on 12 November 2011, stating unequivocally that "global warming stopped in 1998."

In an article titled "O Canada our only hope" (published in the Daily Telegraph of 10 January 2012) Delingpole wrote:

"And the truth is that right now, of all the great Western nations Canada is probably the only one left still standing up for the values that made the West great. What better evidence of this could there be than the glorious news that Stephen Harper's Conservative administration has declared war on the anti-growth, anti-energy, hair-shirt eco-loons who are trying to destroy the Canadian economy?"

Allegations of bias and corruption against Misplaced Pages

In a December 2009 article in the Daily Telegraph entitled "Climategate: the Corruption of Misplaced Pages" Delingpole accused Misplaced Pages of "naked bias and corruption" which "has infected the supposedly neutral Misplaced Pages's entire coverage of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory".

The opening paragraph of the article reads:

"If you want to know the truth about Climategate, definitely don't use Misplaced Pages. 'Climatic Research Unit e-mail controversy', is its preferred, mealy-mouthed euphemism to describe the greatest scientific scandal of the modern age. Not that you'd ever guess it was a scandal from the accompanying article. It reads more like a damage-limitation press release put out by concerned friends and sympathisers of the lying, cheating, data-rigging scientists. Which funnily enough, is pretty much what it is."

Other views

In an article entitled "How the BBC fell for a Marxist plot to destroy civilisation from within", published in the Daily Mail of 27 September 2011 Delingpole commented as follows on the BBC's decision to use the designations "BCE" and "CE" in place of the more traditional "BC" and "AD":

"And so yet another small part of our tradition, language and culture takes a step closer to extinction. We didn't ask for it; we didn't want it; yet still it's happening because a tiny minority of politically correct busybodies have wormed their way into institutions such as the BBC and taken control. Their goal is to create a world where Left-wing thinking – on 'fairness', on race, on sexual equality, on the role of government – becomes the norm. So far, they are doing brilliantly. This capture of the language for political ends was exactly what George Orwell warned us of more than 60 years ago in his book 1984. In the appendix he described how Big Brother devised its language Newspeak to make it impossible for people to think in the 'wrong' way."

and:

"isn't it only fair that we should be a bit more considerate to the sensitivities of other races, religions and creeds? No, it's an act of cultural suicide. Most of us may not realise this but the ideological Left certainly does, for it has long been part of its grand plan to destroy Western civilisation from within. The plan's prime instigator was the influential German Marxist thinker ('the father of the New Left') Herbert Marcuse. A Jewish academic who fled Germany for the US in the Thirties, he became the darling of the Sixties and Seventies 'radical chic' set. He deliberately set out to dismantle every last pillar of society – tradition, hierarchy, order – and key to victory, he argued, would be a Leftist takeover of the language, including 'the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements which promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or which oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care etc'. In other words, those of us who believe in smaller government or other 'Right-wing' heresies should be for ever silenced."

In an article entitled "Only the Tea Party can save us now" published in the Daily Telegraph on 2 November 2010 Delingpole wrote:

"As you all know, since Climategate I've been dedicating far more of my time than is healthy to exposing the great Global Warming scam . . . because I understand that "Environmentalism" is but one strategically significant theatre in a much greater ideological war being waged across the world. It's the same one Toby Young is fighting over education; the same one the likes of Rod Liddle, Andrew Gilligan, Nick Cohen and Mark Steyn are fighting over political Islam; the same one Melanie Phillips is fighting over Israel; the same one Douglas Murray is fighting on pretty much everything. And its ultimate outcome is at least as important as those of the ones we fought in 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. At stake is exactly the same thing the Greek alliance fought for when Western Civilisation was born at Salamis in 480 BC; the same thing we citizens of the West have been fighting for ever since: the right to forge our own destinies as free men and women, rather than remain infantilised, oppressed and enslaved as vassals of a tyrant state."

Awards and prizes

In 2005 Delingpole was awarded the Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust Award for his essay, "What are museums for?" The International Policy Network, a "free-market" (pro-capitalist) pressure group, awarded the 2010 Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism to Delingpole for his Telegraph blog.

Works

Books

See also

References

  1. Subject's personal website
  2. Leith, William (21 July 2003). "A writer's life: James Delingpole". The Telegraph.
  3. Malvern Writers’ Circle Annual Dinner. Worcestershire Life. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
  4. ^ Delingpole, James (29 May 2010). "My moment of rock-star glory at a climate change sceptics' conference in America". The Spectator. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
  5. Delingpole, James (6 October 2009). "David Cameron at Oxford University: the truth". The Telegraph. ...unlike 99.9 per cent of the 20,000 or so students who were there at the time, I was reasonably good friends with both Boris and Dave.
  6. Hanley, Lynsey (19 March 2007). "A reasonable man". New Statesman.
  7. Glover, Gillian (22 July 2005). "The aristocracy and us". The Scotsman.
  8. Wollaston, Sam (25 July 2005). "Grand designs". The Guardian.
  9. Hickman, Leo (19 November 2009). "Climate sceptic James Delingpole's cheap shot at Newsweek backfires". The Guardian. Delingpole does a nice turn over on the Telegraph blogs as a rent-a-quote climate change sceptic and good all-round right-wing contrarian
  10. Delingpole, James (17 March 2010). "Does even Ian McEwan know what Ian McEwan really thinks about 'Climate Change'?". The Telegraph.
  11. BBC Horizon: Science Under Attack, broadcast 24 January 2011 on BBC 2
    Tim Dowling (25 January 2011). "Horizon: Science Under Attack and Tool Academy". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
  12. Delingpole, James (6 July 2011). "There has been no global warming since 1998". The Telegraph.
  13. "The Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust Award 2005". Times Online. 17 March 2006.
  14. Thompson, Damian (12 November 2010). "Telegraph blogger James Delingpole wins Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Archived from the original on 12 November 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
  15. Oliver, Laura (12 November 2010). "Telegraph blogger James Delingpole wins Bastiat Prize". journalism.co.uk. Archived from the original on 12 November 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2010. Freelance writer, journalist and Telegraph blogger James Delingpole has won the online journalism category of the Bastiat Prize for Journalism. … It is the second year running in which a Telegraph blogger has taken the online award. In 2009 controversial MEP Daniel Hannan won the prize for his blog for the title.

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