James Delingpole

James Delingpole is officially the world's best political blogger. (Well, that's what the 2013 Bloggies said). Besides the Spectator, he is executive editor of Breitbart London and writes for Bogpaper.com and Ricochet.com. His website is www.jamesdelingpole.com and his latest book is Watermelons.

Kandy mountains: buzzing bees and cigarette trees, pretty much

Sri Lanka makes me yearn to be a pre-war tea planter

17 October 2015 9:00 am

James Delingpole tastes bliss in the steamy heat

A Supreme Court justice and the scary plan to outlaw climate change

10 October 2015 9:00 am

How do you make an imaginary problem so painfully real that everyone suffers? It’s an odd question to ask, you…

A Supreme Court justice and the scary plan to outlaw climate change

8 October 2015 2:00 pm

How do you make an imaginary problem so painfully real that everyone suffers? It’s an odd question to ask, you…

James Delingpole discovers the fons et origo of indie music

3 October 2015 8:00 am

I really hadn’t meant to write a postscript to last week’s column on my dark Supertramp past. But then along…

Independents’ day

1 October 2015 1:00 pm

I really hadn’t meant to write a postscript to last week’s column on my dark Supertramp past. But then along…

The truth about me, David Cameron, drugs and Supertramp

26 September 2015 8:00 am

This week I woke up shocked to find myself on the front page of the Daily Mail. Apparently I’m the…

The truth about me, Dave and the drugs

24 September 2015 1:00 pm

Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thegreatbritishkowtow/media.mp3 This week I woke up shocked to find myself on the front page of the Daily Mail. Apparently…

An Inspector Calls is poisonous, revisionist propaganda - which is why the luvvies love it

19 September 2015 8:00 am

What a load of manipulative, hysterical tosh is An Inspector Calls. It wasn’t a work with which I was familiar…

Socialist Cluedo

17 September 2015 1:00 pm

What a load of manipulative, hysterical tosh is An Inspector Calls. It wasn’t a work with which I was familiar…

No, even my daughter’s great hospital care doesn’t change my mind about the NHS

12 September 2015 9:00 am

When Girl came off the horse it didn’t look like a bad fall. More like an involuntary and rather hurried…

The NHS was great for Girl, but I still don’t like it

10 September 2015 1:00 pm

When Girl came off the horse it didn’t look like a bad fall. More like an involuntary and rather hurried…

Finally James Delingpole gets why women are so angry

5 September 2015 9:00 am

Finally I realise why women are so pissed off. It all goes back to the first codified laws — circa…

Lifting the veil

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

Finally I realise why women are so pissed off. It all goes back to the first codified laws — circa…

Oh no: On the Road’s a masterpiece. So what else have I missed?

29 August 2015 9:00 am

This week’s column is dedicated to all those of you who have never read Catcher in the Rye and who,…

If On the Road’s great, what else have I missed?

27 August 2015 1:00 pm

This week’s column is dedicated to all those of you who have never read Catcher in the Rye and who,…

Why does TV assume everyone is so thick they have to have everything explained?

22 August 2015 9:00 am

My favourite moment in The Scandalous Lady W (BBC2, Monday) was when the heroine played by Natalie Dormer was shown…

Poldark porn

20 August 2015 1:00 pm

My favourite moment in The Scandalous Lady W (BBC2, Monday) was when the heroine played by Natalie Dormer was shown…

‘Free bleeding’ and the stupidly clever feminists who fell for it

15 August 2015 9:00 am

Did you know that tampons were just another brutal expression of the oppressive patriarchy? I must confess that I didn’t…

The feminists who fell for a bleeding hoax

13 August 2015 1:00 pm

Did you know that tampons were just another brutal expression of the oppressive patriarchy? I must confess that I didn’t…

A demonstrator is arrested during an anti-nuclear protest at Greenham Common air base in 1983. (Photo: D. Jones/Express/Getty)

All that postwar anxiety about being vaporised by a nuclear bomb was a complete waste of emotion

8 August 2015 9:00 am

When I was growing up in the 1970s, my three main fears were: being blown up by the IRA; being…

A demonstrator is arrested during an anti-nuclear protest at Greenham Common air base in 1983. (Photo: D. Jones/Express/Getty)

Nuclear overreaction

6 August 2015 1:00 pm

When I was growing up in the 1970s, my three main fears were: being blown up by the IRA; being…

The wonders of the Muslim world that my children will never get to see

1 August 2015 9:00 am

I celebrated Eid in a sandy bay in Sri Lanka, watching from the warm, shallow sea as gaggles of local…

A twinge of fear, and a glimpse of a harsher world

30 July 2015 1:00 pm

I celebrated Eid in a sandy bay in Sri Lanka, watching from the warm, shallow sea as gaggles of local…

Ten resolutions as I stare my 50th birthday in the face

18 July 2015 9:00 am

Very soon now I shall reach my half-century. I would have preferred to keep the horror a secret but there’s…

Ten resolutions that should make my next 50 years pass more smoothly

16 July 2015 1:00 pm

Very soon now I shall reach my half-century. I would have preferred to keep the horror a secret but there’s…