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James Delingpole is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who is right about everything. He is the author of numerous fantastically entertaining books including 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy, Welcome To Obamaland: I've Seen Your Future And It Doesn't Work, How To Be Right, and the Coward series of WWII adventure novels. His website iswww.jamesdelingpole.com.

God, I'm brilliant!

By James Delingpole Environment Last updated: December 16th, 2011

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Like my esteemed colleague Dan Hannan, I have a pathological aversion to posting up videos of myself on my blogs. In this case, however, I feel I must make an exception. It's not often you get to appear on Uncommon Knowledge being interviewed by the mighty Peter Robinson. (Our subjects: Climategate; Watermelons; the imminent collapse of Europe)

Peter Robinson is the uber-poised, uber-intelligent, uber-civilised (well he did go to Ch Ch) commentator, broadcaster and former Reagan aide who as a young man scripted the "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Brandenburg Gate speech in Berlin in 1987. He's the co-founder of the US conservative website Ricochet which contains some of the most brilliant writing in the entire blogosphere and fabbo podcasts too including one mysteriously called Radio Free Delingpole

He's also a fellow of the Hoover Institution – an island of immense conservative soundness set in a vast ocean of liberal sanctimoniousness at Stanford (aka "The Farm") University, in Palo Alto, capitol of Silicon Valley, in the People's Republic of California. His Uncommon Knowledge series is pretty much the most distinguished political discussion programme you'll see on TV because – thanks to Peter – it still exudes that otherwise vanished gravitas which used to be a commonplace in the days of Face to Face or Kenneth Clark's Civilisation.

Normally, Peter interviews hommes serieux like Thomas Sowell ,outspoken MEP Daniel Hannan, and the late great Christopher Hitchens.

Hell, though, Robinson's too smooth by far and it's about time he didsome proper slumming.