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James Delingpole

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Dope Thief is a cut above your usual inner-city crime-drama porn

Dope Thief is a cut above your usual inner-city crime-drama porn
27.03.2025 10

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James Delingpole

Tables turned / The downfall of climate change poster boy Michael Mann

24.03.2025 30

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James Delingpole

The downfall of climate change poster boy Michael Mann

20.03.2025 30

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James Delingpole

Television / I’m warming to Meghan Markle – only joking

15.03.2025 10

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James Delingpole

Television / I’m warming to Meghan Markle – only joking

13.03.2025 10

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James Delingpole

Television / I’m warming to Meghan Markle – only joking

13.03.2025 10

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James Delingpole

I’m warming to Meghan Markle – only joking

13.03.2025 10

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James Delingpole

Television / I think I’ve found the perfect TV series

04.03.2025 10

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James Delingpole

I think I’ve found the perfect TV series

27.02.2025 10

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James Delingpole

Is work really more fun than fun?

13.02.2025 10

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Television / Not a complete waste of time: Netflix’s La Palma reviewed 

03.02.2025 10

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Not a complete waste of time: Netflix’s La Palma reviewed 

30.01.2025 10

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Television / Irritating but watchable: American Primeval reviewed

16.01.2025 9

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The day I was heckled for speaking about the rape gangs

15.01.2025 10

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TV / Playing Nice is beautifully done – but they miscalculated the opening scene

09.01.2025 3

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James Delingpole

Playing Nice is beautifully done – but they miscalculated the opening scene

09.01.2025 10

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James Delingpole

No one will convince me that Keira Knightley can fight: Black Doves reviewed

If your heart sinks at the prospect of a thriller series starring Keira Knightley as a highly trained undercover agent with unfeasible martial...

02.01.2025 10

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James Delingpole

Most-read 2024: How did Wolf Hall escape the attentions of the BBC’s diversity commissars?

We’re closing 2024 by republishing our five most-read articles of the year. Here’s No. 3: James Delingpole’s article from November on the new...

29.12.2024 7

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Dune: Prophecy is much worse than you will believe possible

Do you remember that nagging sense of mild disappointment as you sat through Dune 2? You’d been impressed by Dune: bit of a recondite plot if you...

05.12.2024 30

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How did Wolf Hall escape the attentions of the BBC’s diversity commissars?

Wolf Hall is one of the few remaining jewels in the BBC’s tarnished crown. Presumably that’s why it was allowed to get off relatively lightly from...

21.11.2024 10

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James Delingpole

Top tosh: The Diplomat reviewed

The Diplomat bears the same relationship to 21st-century ambassadorial geopolitics as Bridgerton does to the salons and social mores of early 19th-...

14.11.2024 1

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Spy-drama porn: Sky’s The Day of the Jackal reviewed

All the previewers have been drooling lasciviously over The Day of the Jackal reboot and, having seen the first three episodes, I quite understand...

07.11.2024 3

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James Delingpole

You’ll even hate the cat: Disclaimer, on Apple TV+, reviewed

Sometimes spoilers can be your friend. For example, I have just cheated and looked up on the internet the shocking final plot twist in Disclaimer...

24.10.2024 5

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James Delingpole

Television / A fashion series made by people who hate fashion: Apple TV+’s La Maison reviewed

I’m a bit disappointed – déçu, as we Francophiles like to say – with La Maison. When French TV drama is good it can be very, very good, as we...

10.10.2024 3

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James Delingpole

Easy-on-the-eye tosh: Netflix’s The Perfect Couple reviewed

The Perfect Couple is an exemplar of that genre sometimes cynically known as ‘poverty programming’: dramas that train all of us non-billionaire...

12.09.2024 1

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Television / Sick, cynical and irresistible: Netflix’s Kaos reviewed

Kaos is a new Netflix gods-and-monsters black-comedy blockbuster that will scorch your screen and fry your brain like a thunderbolt from Zeus. It’s...

05.09.2024 3

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James Delingpole

Must-watch TV: Apple TV+’s Pachinko reviewed

Pachinko is like an extended version of the Monty Python ‘Four Yorkshiremen’ sketch (‘I used to have to get out of shoebox at midnight, lick road...

29.08.2024 3

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About as edgy as Banksy: Joe Rogan’s Netflix special reviewed

My resolution this summer was to see how far into the Olympics I could get without watching an event. It’s harder than you think. Especially when...

15.08.2024 2

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Netflix has massacred The Decameron

Unless you did English A-level and shoehorned a mention of it into your Chaucer paper to try to get extra marks, you probably haven’t even heard of...

01.08.2024 2

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James Delingpole

Am I slightly psychopathic to be so obsessed with gangster TV?

Most of my favourite TV shows seem to involve gangsters in one way or another: The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Top Boy, The Offer (that brilliant...

18.07.2024 2

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James Delingpole