[10] He attended Malvern College from 1978 to 1983, an independent school for boys,[11] followed by Christ Church, Oxford (1983–1986),[12] where he studied English language and literature.

[22][23] Writing in The Guardian, the television reviewer Charlie Brooker concludes that "Delingpole succeeds in improving the image of the upper classes.

[25][26][27] In 2013, Delingpole apologised after describing an article by a fellow journalist, which attacked the views of columnist Suzanne Moore, as giving her "such a seeing-to, she'll be walking bow-legged for weeks.

[32] Delingpole blogged "How the global warming industry is based on one MASSIVE lie",[33] arguing that this discredited the 1998 hockey stick graph, though in fact that study did not use any of the data in question.

He also alleged that this discredited the scene in An Inconvenient Truth where Al Gore walks beside a graph relating past temperatures to CO2, then has to use a platform lift to reach the projected future curve, but that graph was based on Lonnie Thompson's ice core data, not tree rings, and the projected curve was for CO2 levels, not temperature.

[37][38][39][40] In the BBC Horizon documentary "Science under Attack", broadcast in January 2011, Paul Nurse interviewed scientists and examples of those disputing their work.

When Nurse posed an analogy with a patient dismissing the consensus of an oncology team and choosing their own treatment, Delingpole resented the comparison with quackery.

[4] In 2012 Delingpole wrote an article in The Australian titled "Wind Farm Scam a Huge Cover-Up"[42] containing controversial issues and tone, which was ultimately censured.

[43] On 10 January 2013 the UK Met Office responded to Delingpole's Daily Mail article published earlier that day, 'The crazy climate change obsession that's made the Met Office a menace', with a blog rebutting "a series of factual inaccuracies" in the piece, which included repetition of a falsehood which the Telegraph had withdrawn in 2012 following a Press Complaints Commission ruling.

The last thing I would want is for Monbiot, Mann, Flannery, Jones, Hansen and the rest of the Climate rogues' gallery to be granted the mercy of quick release.

Heaton-Harris said that Delingpole had announced his candidacy as part of a "plan" to "cause some hassle" and drive the issue of wind farms up the political agenda.

"[54] In 2010 Delingpole won the Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism for his Telegraph blog, a $3,000 prize awarded by the free-market International Policy Network for "work that promotes 'the principles and institutions of the free society'"; Damian Thompson, the Telegraph's blog editor, linked receipt of the award to the impact of Delingpole's posts on the Climatic Research Unit email controversy.