He's on The Big Questions right now claiming to be a journalist.

EDIT: He's just claimed that the NOTW was killed by a vindictive BBC campaign. I really should be shouting 'cunt!' so loudly on a Sunday morning.

Sharing a car back from the BBC Big Question debate in Cardiff on Sunday I had a tremendous bust-up with one of my fellow panellists which I think many of you would have enjoyed hugely. (Our driver could barely keep a straight face.)

It was prompted when I very vocally expressed my disgust at one of the standard phrases trotted out by Warmists and other eco-loons in these debates (as, of course, inevitably, they did again on Sunday): the one about "preserving the planet for future generations".

The reason this cant phrase makes me want to throw up every time I hear it is that it's such a grotesque inversion of reality. It's not people on my side of the debate who want to ravage the countryside with wind farms (with no provision for decommissioning them), rein in economic growth, introduce wartime-style rationing, raise taxes, destroy farmland and rainforests to create biofuels, and base heinously expensive public policy on hysteria and junk science. It's not people on my side of the debate who are condemning those "future generations" to a lower standard of living and an uglier environment in order to deal with a problem that doesn't exist. So how dare they have the gall to try to take the moral high ground?

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All right. I admit it: I was quite rude. But I have no regrets about this whatsoever. Especially not given that my antagonist was here deploying yet another of the disingenuous techniques exploited by the liberal-left on these occasions: the evasion of argument by turning the debate into an issue of style and character.

I get this a lot everywhere from the comments below this blog to Twitter. (One young man even Tweeted on Sunday asking for someone to "knife" me because he didn't like what I had to say on the BBC debate programme.) Their "thinking" goes something along the lines of: "James Delingpole is so rude and unpleasant and right-wing that everything he has to say is evil and I'm amazed he gets paid for this stuff and I just wish someone could shut him up or kill him." Yeah, but never mind what you think of me: that's obvious. Where's your counter to my argument, that's what I'd like to know?

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As I note in Watermelons, the global warming scare – the biggest and most expensive outbreak of mass hysteria in history – has enabled some very bad people to do some very wrong things in the name of "saving the planet for future generations". And yet the eco-loons complain about people like me being rude? And they think I'm the one who should be knifed or head-butted?

A sense of perspective, gentlemen: please!

Their "thinking" goes something along the lines of: "James Delingpole is so rude and unpleasant and right-wing that everything he has to say is evil and I'm amazed he gets paid for this stuff...

It's not people on my side of the debate who want to ravage the countryside with wind farms (with no provision for decommissioning them), rein in economic growth, introduce wartime-style rationing, raise taxes, destroy farmland and rainforests to create biofuels, and base heinously expensive public policy on hysteria and junk science.

wind farms and taxes, just like climate change.

Those environmentalists, always hammering down rain forests.

junk science, says the English graduate, who interprets interpretations.

And if a lefty wrote that "war time rationing" bollocks they'd get accused of being disrespectful to the Home Front. I won't do that. I'll just call him a cunt.

Because he's a cunt.

I despise the fact that cunts like him wear their notoriety lioke a badge of fucking honour.

'Look, loads of guardian readers dislike me - i must be on to something!'

No James, you must be a cunt.

They think they're brave.