Martin Durkin and James Delingpole in the most stimulating podcast of the year - red meat for right-wingers

I didn't mean to spend an hour this morning listening to James Delingpole interviewing the maker of the hugely influential online film, The Brexit Movie. But I made the mistake of listening to the first few minutes of the podcast...

Lord Haw-Haw rides again! "Germany calling! Germany calling!"

And in case we're not all cowering in a corner...

On Brexit, I'm now 100% in favour of the BBC being rabidly biased!

The latest ComRes Independent/Sunday Mirror online poll suggests that combined support for the two main pro-Brexit parties - the Conservatives and UKIP...

Britain's left-wing comedians quake as they realise "the men are coming up the drive"

Delightful news: the arrogant, lazy bigotry of left-wing metropolitan BBC comics like Marcus Brigstocke and Stewart Lee has led to some members of their audiences outside London booing and walking out of their otherwise rib-tickling stand-up "comedy" gigs, disgusted by the performers' anti-Brexit material. For some reason, the comedians' bewildered bleatings recalled the moment when, during a televised public speech, the vile Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu realised that the vast crowd listening to him in the square below were booing, not cheering, him. But that seemed a bit silly, given that the wretched tyrant in question spent decades murdering and torturing his people, rather than - as in the case of Brigstocke and Lee - using allegedly comic material on a platform provided by left-wing broadcasters to shame, browbeat, bully and embarrass anyone who doesn't share their achingly PC view of the world. So I searched for another analogy...

Whatever we Brexiteers do, we simply must resist the urge to gloat...

I was trying to feel sorry for Remainers yesterday morning, because a lot of them must have been feeling a bit like this poor little chap. Then I checked my various social media feeds...

I'm still not convinced that insulting Brexit voters is the best way to change their minds!

We're stupid, xenophobic extremists? Why, thank you!

Brexit: Reasons to Be Cheerful Pt. 182

And there's this...

"Germany Calling...Germany Calling...This is the BBC, broadcasting from Brussels...despite Brexit."

In case that wasn't depressing enough...

Vote Leave campaign director Dominic Cummings's "How the Brexit referendum was won" is truly rivetting

This very long article, which appeared on both Dominic Cummings' own blog and in the Spectator Coffee House section yesterday, had me up until 3am this morning, gasping, laughing and going "Coo!" at regular intervals. It's clumsily written and all over the place structurally -  yet it's difficult to imagine a more compelling examination of the forces at work in last June's Brexit triumph (and, no, I haven't yet read Tim Shipman's book, All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class, which has had some excellent reviews - including a thumbs-up from Cummings).  

Welcome to the Brexit fold, Niall Ferguson - it's where you always belonged

I can't say I was surprised by many of those who supported Remain. Jeremy Clarkson was a bit of a disappointment, simply because everything he'd said about the EU up to that point - plus his rough-and-ready, jeering, laddish, two-fingers style of patriotism - suggested he'd be one of the keenest and mouthiest of Brexiteers. Theresa May surprised me - but I presumed her decision had been made purely in the interests of her political career: ditto Tory minister Sajid Javid. But their defection from the cause was more than made up for by Michael Gove and Boris Johnson's support. The one who really disappointed me (to the extent of making me wonder for at least 30 seconds whether I'd got this whole thing wrong) was the chippy little Glaswegian Harvard historian Niall Ferguson, who, for some odd reason, was keen to keep Cameron and Osborne in power...

The Owen Jones Advent Calendar - a "guaranteed laugh behind every door" (courtesy of Gary Conway)

It's just beginning to dawn on me...

Yes, Mary Riddell, we selfish Brexiteers are all very, very ashamed of ourselves...

But probably not as ashamed as you felt this morning as you hunted for the Alka-Seltzer. (Do you still work for the Telegraph? I never see you in there.)  Labour MP Chris Bryant was also keen to blame the world's ills on Leave voters: 

Stay away from Facebook right now, Brexiteers - it will just annoy the hell out of you!

I'll admit to not being a great Facebook user. I joined up when it first became a thing. I posted stuff on it, but when I contemplated using it to link to articles on this blog, I suddenly realised how unsuitable it would prove. Most of my friends aren't on it (at least, the ones I've looked for) and the people I'm "friends" with (one or two old pals, a few acquaintances, some former work colleagues who I really liked, and some relatives and in-laws) are, on the whole, mildly left-wing, as far as I can tell. I couldn't really see the point of causing an upset by exposing them to opinions that would only annoy them: by the same token, while I'm interested to find out what they're up to, I don't really want to be subjected to their political views (I had quite enough of that during 20 years at the BBC).

Every political journalist, right now...

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Meanwhile an intellectually distinguished Conservative Brexiteer spends nine minutes trying to speak truth to a spectacularly stupid, ill-mannered and ill-informed left-wing female CNN "journalist" - or, more accurately, to a biased, bigoted political activist masquerading as a television news journalist who has already decided that all Leave voters are (wait for it)... WAYCISTS!!!!!!!!:

Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Watson in happier times...

(h/t: David Jones)

"No more hate!", "Fuck you, Boris!" Well, which is it? Make up your mind, kiddies! Every young Remainer, right now...

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They came bearing messages of love, tolerance, inclusiveness and mutual respect - ah, the idealism of youth...

Only a bunch of Trotskyist loons could make the Tories look united at a time like this...

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Maybe Steptoe needs to consider the fact that Cameron seems like a weight's been lifted from his shoulders since announcing his resignation:</div>
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It seems way past time for the Labour Party to split once and for all - hate-filled Trotsyist nutters to the left, creepy Blairite virtue-signallers to the right, with Andy Burnham forming his own party for the spinally challenged somewhere in the middle: the current situation is utterly farcical. Who was the architect of the new £3 membership rule that paved the way for this unholy mess? Step forward and take a bow, Ed Miliband: if you hadn't bequeathed us Corbyn, Leave might very well have lost. <i>Thank you.&nbsp;</i></div>
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Meanwhile, I notice that - following an attempt to at least give an <i>impression</i> of impartiality during the referendum campaign - the BBC has reverted to type, and is now doing everything in its power to turn some inevitable short-term economic turbulence into a fully-fledged long-term disaster. Just to repeat myself: the dealers and traders who buy and sell currencies and stocks and shares and whatnot are, on the whole, a bunch of terrified, shrieking ladyboys, who herd together and stampede in the same direction whenever there's a hint of uncertainty - then, when a few of the braver members of their breed decide it's time to change course, immediately all race in the opposite direction. Obviously our state broadcaster has a duty to report these events, but it also has a duty not to eagerly fan the flames of public panic, or to use them for the purposes of anti-Brexit propaganda. The markets go up and they go down down. We know this. Try to reflect that in your reporting, and stop being so damned irresponsible.</div>
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I was watching BBC coverage yesterday when that abysmal excuse for a human being, Alastair Campbell, was wheeled on. He was given an inordinate amount of air time to voice his considered opinion that Boris Johnson was "finished". Yes, that's just what I was thinking - the Tory politician who twice won mayoral elections in a solid Labour city and who a few days ago won a stunning national referendum victory, despite the other side having the whole weight of the British and European political and economic establishments behind it (not to mention the President of the United States, David Beckham and Benedict Cumberbatch) is evidently <i>all washed up</i>. Given such a dreadful record of electoral failure, you'd have to be mad to imagine that Boris had any sort of political future.&nbsp;</div>
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Why Campbell was pushing this silly line is obvious: despite all his glaringly obvious faults, Boris Johnson has demonstrated on three separate momentous occasions his ability to transcend party politics by appealing to traditional Labour <i>and</i> Tory voters - Campbell knows that he would be toxic for Labour. The real question to ask is why the BBC allowed Campbell to spout this arrant nonsense <i>unchallenged</i>. And if I see the European Project's very own Gollum - i.e. the permanently besweatered Michael Heseltine - spouting alarmist anti-British nonsense from a comfy chair in the study of his no doubt immensely agweeable home - I will be... disappointed? This rather pathetic, obsessed old man has been demonstrably wrong about everything for decades, and I see no excuse for the BBC to keep foisting him on licence-payers.&nbsp;</div>
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