James Delingpole is on vigorous form, in a groove that this blog also treads from time to time, namely the misuse of the English language to score political points. His particular complaint is the "let's all pretend that fossil fuels are subsidised" meme that many of the more ludicrous members of the green fraternity find so attractive at the moment:
This fossil-fuels-more-subsidised-than-renewables meme has been spread, inter alia, by the Guardian's ludicrous Damian Carrington; by Labour MP Barry "Dork Brain" Gardiner (Vice President of the sinister GLOBE international); by green pressure groups; by the Overseas Development Institute; and by the IMF which, impressively, has put global energy subsidies at $1.9 trillion – the majority of these, apparently, for fossil fuels…
This is undoubtedly an abuse of the English language and one so egregrious that even the noble and learned Baroness Worthington has found herself unable to support it.
As I've said before, if you don't use words with their common meaning then nobody can trust a word you say. So when peers and MPs who make these claims about fossil fuel 'subsidies' tell you they have 'no conflicts of interest', that they only make 'honest expense claims' or that they 'didn't have sex with that woman', you should probably assume the worst.