Aiming at Socialists, their Apologists, and not forgetting you Vichyites. After 33 years at Reuters, I can’t wait to ditch the straitjacket of balance and rant. Ranting with purpose and intelligence, I hope, and unerringly aiming at shooting down the hypocrisy, lies, and just plain wrong-headedness of socialists everywhere. Socialists are in my sights, whether they are hiding behind the banner of liberals or Democrats in the United States, New Labour or Liberal Democrats in Britain, communists or social democrats elsewhere. And not just socialists I will also be keeping an eye on Britain’s Conservative Party, which has too often allowed apologists for the Left to burrow into positions of power and water-down or corrupt ideas aimed at liberating people from the strait-jacket of state power and its unintended consequences. Global warming I’ve also dedicated a section of Wintonsworld to the controversy surrounding global warming. In many left-leaning media organisations, this has ceased to be a controversy. According to the conventional wisdom at leftist outfits like Britain’s state-controlled broadcaster the BBC, The Guardian, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, the world is heading for environmental disaster because the action of humans is ruining the climate. For the human race to be saved from itself the only thing to do is invoke the Kyoto treaty, curb the car, (kill it later), and only allow limited economic growth. The market will no longer decide the direction of economies. Lifeline for leftists The Kyoto mantra is a lifeline to leftists everywhere. They lost all the arguments about economics and politics in the late 20th century, but if they can only persuade the gullible that human activity in general, and expressions of freedom and independence like driving cars is killing the planet, we should succumb to their dirigiste agenda once again. No matter that the scientific proof that points to human induced climate change is tentative at best. Politicians want to act now to save us from ourselves, no matter that this is unlikely to actually work, or that it might cause grave economic damage. Vichy tendency My final target will be the Vichy tendency - in the shape of the likes of Chris Patten, Leon Brittan, Neil Kinnock, Roy Jenkins, The Independent and The Guardian – who can’t wait to cede more power to the European Union and hand us all over to the tender mercies of the Brussels bureaucrats.