Delingpole: No, Gove – Conservative Hero Roger Scruton Would Have HATED Your Lockdowns

Sir Roger Scruton would have supported Britain's endless lockdowns, Michael Gove has implausibly claimed.
Sir Roger Scruton would have supported Britain's endless lockdowns, Michael Gove has implausibly claimed.
Glasto has been cancelled for the second year running because of Chinese Coronavirus. I find myself torn between despair and Schadenfreude.
UK PM Boris Johnson is not a conservative, but he certainly is a blithering idiot.
The 1776 Report is a thing of such beauty, dignity, and scholarship that it makes me wish I were American.
Actor turned political activist Laurence Fox has got himself a 'mask exempt' badge off Amazon. This has earned him a very unparliamentary rebuke from an obscure but clearly ambitious Conservative MP called Simon Hoare.
Thousands of restaurants have opened in Italy in defiance of the country's strict Chinese coronavirus lockdown regulations. The mass civil disobedience campaign -- launched under the hashtag #IoApro (#IOpen) -- has seen as many as 50,000 restaurants opening despite evening curfew restrictions.
UK PM Boris Johnson says he is becoming 'more and more obsessed' with the UN climate conference which Britain is hosting later this year.
Straight actors should not play gay characters, says one of Britain's leading writer/producers.
Cambridge, the university for people not interesting enough to get into Oxford, will drop its standards to attract more 'diverse' students.
Great news! You lost your job, your business closed, freedom died, but it is worth it because CO2 fell by ten whole per cent last year.
Personally, the BBC is about the last place on earth I'd trust with my children's education. Its wokeness is relentless and all-pervasive.
Before airing a 1971 Christmas special, it issued a warning on BBC iPlayer: 'Contains discriminatory language which some may find offensive.'
Doom Goblin Greta Thunberg has giving her blessing to everyone who wants to fly in 2021 - even, or perhaps especially, if they are a rich, preachy, jet-setting climate hypocrite.
A woke BBC comedian has called out Ricky Gervais for telling insensitive jokes about 'trans' people. Heres the funny part...
For me, one of the stranger phenomena of 2020 has been watching the principle-free suck-ups of the 'conservative' commentariat rushing to heap praise on the Worst Prime Minister in British History because of his allegedly amazing Brexit deal.
Britain's lockdown, that in turn inspired that in the U.S? None of it would have been possible without the shining example of China.
The Great Reset is real, it's happening now and will lead to devastation worse -- 'much, much worse' -- than the Weimar Republic, a German economist has warned.
Apparently, if your names are Van Morrison and Eric Clapton. Their anti-lockdown song "Stand and Deliver" -- which Morrison wrote and Clapton performs -- has attracted so much bile and outrage from the radical left you'd think they'd just performed a benefit gig for the Ku Klux Klan.
This is the Euroweenies' payback for Brexit. Britain is being punished for having made the 'wrong' decision in the EU referendum.
Sir David Attenborough -- the BBC's chief green propagandist -- has described his joy on hearing that President-elect Biden plans to drag the U.S. back into the Paris climate agreement.
A picture in the Queen's collection celebrating the Battle of Rorke's Drift -- one of the proudest moments in British military history -- has been given a trigger warning following a Black Lives Matter style review.
A publisher has cancelled a book by Britain's sparkiest polemicist on the evils of woke because she offended a semi-celebrity Communist with a supposedly "Islamophobic" tweet. Was there ever a story that more perfectly captured the woke insanity of 2020?
Britain's de facto leader Carrie Symonds -- girlfriend of PM Boris Johnson -- has been named Person of the Year by animal rights loons PETA.
London's Cartoon Museum has been inspired by BLM to begin a purge of its 'white cisgender men' such as William Hogarth and James Gillray.
Western environmentalists are the useful idiots of the Chinese Communist Party, says a report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
"Britain's weather is getting wilder," claimed the BBC on a Panorama documentary this week. This is actually untrue, but the BBC knows it can get away with blatant lies about climate change these days.
Just three years from now he plans to make it illegal to install a gas boiler in any new home. It might sound innocuous enough...
There's a very simple solution for people who disapprove of animal fur: don't buy it.
Some bright spark in CCHQ has twigged that the so-called 'green crap' won't play too well with working-class voters in the Red Wall.
The Vicar of Dibley — the BBC comedy show designed to reassure viewers that Christianity has nothing whatsoever to do with faith, religion or belief in God — has embraced Black Lives Matter.
Jubilation has greeted the announcement that the UK is the first to roll out a Chinese coronavirus vaccine. Personally, I'm not celebrating.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the pub, the government has decided to effectively extend the lockdown that Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised faithfully would end on December 2nd.
Eton College -- the elite school that has educated everyone from the Duke of Wellington and George Orwell to Princes William and Harry and the current Archbishop of Canterbury -- has gone woke.
A government minister you've never ever heard of has resigned in protest because the UK has reduced its foreign aid budget by £5 billion.
Australia's Qantas has become the first airline to insist all its passengers must be vaccinated against coronavirus.
The green agenda IS the Great Reset. One of the few political leaders who gets this is President Donald Trump.
"Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man."
The Great Reset is not a conspiracy theory. But lots of useful idiots want you to believe that it is.
The people pushing for the Great Reset are perfectly open about their plan. Indeed, they can scarcely stop talking about it...
Boris Johnson has declared he is going to stick with his fourteen days' self-isolation despite having tested negative for Coronavirus.
The sale of new petrol cars will be banned as part of a Great Reset promoted by PM Boris's current official girlfriend Carrie Symonds.
All I'm feeling right now is contempt and disgust at my fellow 'conservatives'.
Actress Gillian Anderson has just discovered something extraordinary about the job she has been doing for the last 35 years: turns out that "acting" involves pretending to be someone you are not.
British MPs voted by 516 to 38 to turn the United Kingdom into a totalitarian police state.
Nigel Farage has repurposed his Brexit Party as the Reform Party and will be using it to campaign against the lockdown.
Build Back Better. This is the slogan of the New World Order - aka the Great Reset. You hear it often these days intoned -- in the manner of dutiful Stepford Wives -- by everyone from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Prince of Wales to Canadian blackface artiste Justin Trudeau and, inevitably, Joe Biden who has adopted it as his campaign slogan.
The UK is in serious danger of replacing democracy with totalitarianism, one of Britain's most distinguished legal minds has warned.
What's particularly disappointing is that this non-story was promoted in two notionally conservative newspapers.
He told Breitbart of his fervent desire that Trump should win the election - and of his fear that it might be sabotaged by Big Tech.
The revolutionalwayseats its own - as veteran eco-activist Sir David Attenborough has just discovered.
Do masks protect against Chinese coronavirus and reduce its spread — or are they, as their critics maintain, mere empty gesture politics? A major study which might finally have answered this question has been postponed indefinitely after three of the
No UK authority would dream of allowing official buildings to be used for what they would deem a 'provocative' and 'divisive' gesture.
Climate scientists rack up more air miles than other academics - but feel more guilty about it as they do so, a study has found.
The horrors conjured up by the Remain Establishment now look mild compared to what Britain has experienced over Corona.
Piers Morgan is sick and tired of being hated and has decided to abandon his ex-friend Donald Trump for Joe Biden.
Boris Johnson's ailing, flailing, hopeless administration has been thrown a lifeline from an unlikely quarter.
Renewable energy is cripplingly expensive, hopelessly unreliable, massacres wildlife, destroys landscapes, destabilises the grid, harms indigenous peoples, and causes climate change. But apart from that it's great, says a meticulous review published in the scientific journal Energies by a team of Irish and U.S.
If Trump loses, then Big Tech and their allies win and it's game over for free markets, liberty, free speech.
Conservative commentator Darren Grimes is being investigated by police on suspicion of "stirring up racial hatred" because of something that his podcast guest, historian David Starkey, said in an interview.
A conservative professor has been "cancelled" for the second time in three years after a race-baiting communist academic raised objections to the "pro-colonial" narrative in his latest book about a British imperial administrator.
Perhaps the committee has noticed something increasingly apparent to the rest of us: that the world has long since reached Peak Greta.
NATO has a new mission. Defending the West from the Russians is so last century: now it wants to save the world from 'Climate Change.'
Just when you thought Boris Johnson couldn't get any less competent or conservative, along comes his 'hold my beer' masterstroke...
It's no longer a question of 'if' but when the ailing, flailing UK Prime Minister crashes and burns.
At least one-quarter of authors studied for English exams should be from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, says a report.
This will be the first UK political party expressly dedicated to fighting the Culture Wars.
A British MP has followed President Donald Trump's lead by rejecting 'unconscious bias training'. Ben Bradley, who represents the working class, traditionally Labour seat of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, has been reprimanded by parliamentary officials for refusing to participate in what he calls "indoctrination".
According to the National Trust, it has links to the 'sometimes uncomfortable role that Britain, and Britons, have played in global history.'
Anyone who wants to protest against this assault on liberty ought to be ready for the worst: the police are now a political instrument.
Van Morrison has released three new protest songs accusing the UK government of being 'fascist bullies disturbing our peace.'
A German soccer team has been thrashed 37-0 because its players insisted on observing rules about 'social distancing.'
Noel Gallagher – co-founder and songwriter of Oasis – has outed himself as a mask sceptic. In an interview on the Matt Morgan podcast, Gallagher describes compulsory face coverings (now required by law to be worn in Britain on public
California governor Gavin Newsom wants to blame the wildfires on record-breaking temperatures in LA County. So does Joe Biden; so too does the LA Times which claims that this 'sizzling summer' was the 'Hottest August on Record' in California.
Radicals trying to destroy the U.S. should be careful what they wish for: they'd have a 'hell of a time' under Chinese hegemony...
Obviously I'm flattered to be likened to my favourite anatomical feature. Even so, even in 2020, is it really appropriate that a minister of Her Majesty's government should be using such language against members of the public on social media?
Joe Biden's Democrats want the United Kingdom to remain permanently shackled to the rotting corpse of the European Union. Of course he does.
The security authorities, it turns out, had numerous 'missed opportunities' to spot the threat posed by Libyan suicide bomber Salman Abedi.
"If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts", Camille Paglia once famously said. But the United Nations didn't get the memo
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex -- the international embarrassments formerly known as Prince Harry and 'Princess' Meghan -- have signed a Netflix production deal worth a rumoured $100-150 million.
Those few of you who still read newspapers won't have got one today because of a blockade staged by the eco-fascist economic terrorism organisation Extinction Rebellion.
Compulsory "unconscious bias" training for MPs. Could there possibly be a more pointless, frivolous, or insulting way of making Britain's politicians even more useless or bigger a waste of money than they are already?
If you want to know why the world is in such a mess, don't blame the feckless politicians, blame the paranoid, credulous, insidiously leftist Deep State.
The tragedy porn vultures of the left are wheeling above their latest piece of carrion: a 16-year-old Sudanese migrant -- actually 28, according to new reports -- drowned while attempting to cross the Channel from France.
If the definition of insanity is doing the same over and over again and expecting a different result then both the state of California and, most especially, its governor Gavin Newsom, are certifiably bonkers.
Boris, Spoiler of Summer Holidays; Calorie-Counting Nanny Statist; the Dictator. Did anyone vote for any of this in the election last year?
Dr Peter Ridd -- the Australian professor cancelled for wrongthink on the Great Barrier Reef -- wants to launch a new movement: Kamikaze Academics.
To the surprise of no-one who has been paying attention, the British economy has slumped in the second quarter of 2020 by an almost unprecedented 20.4 per cent.
National Museums Liverpool are pleased to announce they have a new slavery expert as their "historian in residence". His name is Laurence Westgaph and, though he has almost no credible academic qualifications, he does have convictions for sex with a minor and violent assault.
“We had to smash car windows and pull people out because they wouldn’t give us details...they wouldn’t tell us where they’re going”, declares a senior Australian policeman dressed from head to toe in black.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's latest mad wheeze is to propose extending the lockdown -- "shielding" is his preferred euphemism -- to people over 50. Naturally this has gone down like a cup of cold sick in the Conservatives' natural constituency, which largely comprises people over the age of 50.
Tommy Robinson has been driven out of his British home and into forced exile by an arson attack. Needless to say, the left are delighted.
Masks are dehumanising, they impede communication, they're unpleasant and restrictive to wear, they aid and abet criminals...
Miss Swimsuit UK has been stripped of her title after posting the message 'ALL lives matter' on her Facebook page.
Given how obsessed liberal-lefties are with condemning imaginary Nazis, it's amazing how squeamish they are about confronting the real thing.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has decided to make muzzles -- aka masks; aka face nappies -- compulsory for everyone who wants to go shopping. Anyone caught not wearing one will, from July 24, be liable for a £100 fine.
Britain still has a thriving slave trade - but for some mysterious reason, Black Lives Matter just don't want to know.
Yesterday was 'Super Saturday' when English pubs opened again after three months of lockdown – but really what's the point?
A month ago, you could scarcely move for politicians, sportsmen, luvvies and other assorted wankerati flaunting their allegiance...
"On Behalf of Environmentalists, I Apologise for the Climate Scare," said an article published inForbes magazine by Mike Shellenberger.
Here is a message which should send a shudder down the spine of anyone who believes in the concept of equality before the law: a British police department openly admitting that it intends to give special, favourable treatment to Black Lives Matter.
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