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James Delingpole

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The terror of Russian prisons

The competition must be pretty stiff for ‘World’s worst airport to be caught with drugs in your baggage’: Bogota? Miami? Singapore? Ciudad de la...

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James Delingpole

Television / The Shards is easily the best drama on TV

My father once drove down the King’s Road with Marianne Faithfull and Terence Stamp in a paisley-painted Mini to buy a velvet suit from Granny Takes...

24.08.2026 10

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James Delingpole

The Shards is easily the best drama on TV

My father once drove down the King’s Road with Marianne Faithfull and Terence Stamp in a paisley-painted Mini to buy a velvet suit from Granny Takes...

21.08.2026 10

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James Delingpole

One hot summer won’t silence us climate change sceptics

Hugo Rifkind – formerly of this parish, now a columnist in the Times – has written a Jeremiad blaming climate sceptics for this jolly hot summer...

14.08.2026 20

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James Delingpole

The Shards is easily the best drama on TV

My father once drove down the King’s Road with Marianne Faithfull and Terence Stamp in a paisley-painted Mini to buy a velvet suit from Granny Takes...

13.08.2026 20

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James Delingpole

Television / What happened to Gomorrah?

You’re not going to like this and it pains me to say so but Gomorrah: The Origins is not in the same league as Gomorrah. The wardrobe is more...

12.08.2026 20

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I suspect a lot of TV is AI-generated

AI slop is not a new phenomenon. But it is becoming more prevalent as the lazy, the modish and the sub-literate take advantage of an apparently...

10.08.2026 10

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James Delingpole

What happened to Gomorrah?

You’re not going to like this and it pains me to say so but Gomorrah: The Origins is not in the same league as Gomorrah. The wardrobe is more...

06.08.2026 20

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James Delingpole

Television / In defense of Little House on the Prairie

You can tell things have started to get really bad by the fact that they’re bringing back Little House on the Prairie. When a society is in serious...

01.08.2026 20

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James Delingpole

I suspect a lot of TV is AI-generated

AI slop is not a new phenomenon. But it is becoming more prevalent as the lazy, the modish and the sub-literate take advantage of an apparently...

30.07.2026 20

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James Delingpole

In defence of Little House on the Prairie

You can tell things have started to get really bad by the fact that they’re bringing back Little House on the Prairie. When a society is in serious...

16.07.2026 20

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James Delingpole

Television / The World Cup is evil

James Delingpole has narrated this article for you to listen to. I tried to think, Pointless-style, of two of the countries least likely to be...

08.07.2026 20

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James Delingpole

Television / The World Cup is evil

James Delingpole has narrated this article for you to listen to. I tried to think, Pointless-style, of two of the countries least likely to be...

06.07.2026 30

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James Delingpole

Farewell Carpenter / Non-hunting people will never understand the loss of a horse

My favourite hunter has died and I am bereft. No disrespect to the myriad other horses I have known and loved over the years – Ianto, Alfie, Mr...

04.07.2026 30

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James Delingpole

The World Cup is evil

I tried to think, Pointless-style, of two of the countries least likely to be participating in the world kicky-ball nonsense. Then I burst into the...

02.07.2026 30

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James Delingpole

The Roswell incident is the setting for an enjoyably old-fashioned caper

Aliens are very fashionable right now. Steven Spielberg recently announced that they are real and have been visiting us since for ever – but then he...

01.07.2026 30

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James Delingpole

Television / The Roswell incident is the setting for an enjoyably old-fashioned caper

Aliens are very fashionable right now. Steven Spielberg recently announced that they are real and have been visiting us since for ever – but then he...

01.07.2026 20

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James Delingpole

Television / Clarkson’s Farm remains the best drama on TV

Aliens are very fashionable right now. Steven Spielberg recently announced that they are real and have been visiting us since for ever – but then he...

19.06.2026 30

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James Delingpole

Clarkson’s Farm remains the best drama on TV

Aliens are very fashionable right now. Steven Spielberg recently announced that they are real and have been visiting us since for ever – but then he...

18.06.2026 20

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James Delingpole

Television / Why I’m increasingly drawn to optimistic sci-fi

You know you’re getting old when you see Geena Davis from Thelma & Louise cast as a granny sex symbol and Alfred Molina as a character so...

14.06.2026 20

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James Delingpole

Why I’m increasingly drawn to optimistic sci-fi

You know you’re getting old when you see Geena Davis from Thelma & Louise cast as a granny sex symbol and Alfred Molina as a character so...

13.06.2026 30

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James Delingpole

Television / Why I’m increasingly drawn to optimistic sci-fi

You know you’re getting old when you see Geena Davis from Thelma & Louise cast as a granny sex symbol and Alfred Molina as a character so...

09.06.2026 30

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James Delingpole

Television / Why I’m increasingly drawn to optimistic sci-fi

You know you’re getting old when you see Geena Davis from Thelma & Louise cast as a granny sex symbol and Alfred Molina as a character so...

09.06.2026 20

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James Delingpole

Why I’m increasingly drawn to optimistic sci-fi

You know you’re getting old when you see Geena Davis from Thelma & Louise cast as a granny sex symbol and Alfred Molina as a character so...

04.06.2026 30

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James Delingpole

I’m done with Rivals

Everybody has been raving about Legends, the Netflix series about undercover customs officers in the 1990s busting a heroin ring. But even though...

30.05.2026 30

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James Delingpole

I’m done with Rivals

Everybody has been raving about Legends, the Netflix series about undercover customs officers in the 1990s busting a heroin ring. But even though...

21.05.2026 30

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James Delingpole

Bird brained / My perilous pursuit of Colombia’s birdlife

It was just after seeing my first resplendent quetzal that I hatched my crazy plan to visit Colombia. I was in the Costa Rican cloud forest at the...

14.05.2026 40

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James Delingpole

My perilous pursuit of Colombia’s birdlife

It was just after seeing my first resplendent quetzal that I hatched my crazy plan to visit Colombia. I was in the Costa Rican cloud forest at the...

12.05.2026 40

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James Delingpole

How to win MasterChef

‘Warmer, sharper and funnier than ever,’ claims one reviewer of ‘the BBC’s disgraced cookery show’ MasterChef. But this is nonsense. First,...

07.05.2026 40

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James Delingpole

Television / How to win MasterChef

‘Warmer, sharper and funnier than ever,’ claims one reviewer of ‘the BBC’s disgraced cookery show’ MasterChef. But this is nonsense. First,...

07.05.2026 40

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James Delingpole

AI could never replace me

There are two main schools of thought on AI in the Delingpole household. I, as the resident batshit-crazy reactionary tinfoil-hat loon, think that it...

05.05.2026 40

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James Delingpole

Television / AI could never replace me

There are two main schools of thought on AI in the Delingpole household. I, as the resident batshit-crazy reactionary tinfoil-hat loon, think that it...

29.04.2026 40

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James Delingpole

Television / AI could never replace me

There are two main schools of thought on AI in the Delingpole household. I, as the resident batshit-crazy reactionary tinfoil-hat loon, think that it...

29.04.2026 40

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James Delingpole

The Pitt doesn’t make HBO Max worth a subscription

HBO Max is the latest streaming channel trying to lure you into yet another of those £10 a month subscription contracts you only remember having...

19.04.2026 40

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James Delingpole

The Pitt doesn’t make HBO Max worth a subscription

HBO Max is the latest streaming channel trying to lure you into yet another of those subscription contracts you only remember having signed up for...

18.04.2026 50

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James Delingpole

Television / HBO Max isn’t worth subscribing to

HBO Max is the latest streaming channel trying to lure you into yet another of those £10 a month subscription contracts you only remember having...

15.04.2026 40

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James Delingpole

HBO Max isn’t worth subscribing to

HBO Max is the latest streaming channel trying to lure you into yet another of those £10 a month subscription contracts you only remember having...

09.04.2026 40

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James Delingpole

Goodwill will not save Claudia Winkleman’s new chat show

Claudia Winkleman has a chat show on the BBC. I’m struggling to understand why this is a story but I listened to an entertainment-industry podcast...

26.03.2026 50

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James Delingpole

Television / Goodwill will not save Claudia Winkleman’s new chat show

Claudia Winkleman has a chat show on the BBC. I’m struggling to understand why this is a story but I listened to an entertainment-industry podcast...

26.03.2026 40

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James Delingpole

Television / Life could be worse – you could be Jonathan Ross

‘Oh dear, you look like an old person,’ said Girl, greeting me in the interval of the Bach choir’s St Matthew Passion at the Royal Festival...

18.03.2026 30

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James Delingpole

Television / Life could be worse – you could be Jonathan Ross

‘Oh dear, you look like an old person,’ said Girl, greeting me in the interval of the Bach choir’s St Matthew Passion at the Royal Festival...

18.03.2026 40

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James Delingpole

Television / Life could be worse – you could be Jonathan Ross

‘Oh dear, you look like an old person,’ said Girl, greeting me in the interval of the Bach choir’s St Matthew Passion at the Royal Festival...

12.03.2026 50

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James Delingpole

Enjoyably old-fashioned: ITV’s The Lady reviewed

I lasted all of five minutes with Netflix’s tasting menu-length Being Gordon Ramsay. This surprised me, because I’ve long had a bit of a soft spot...

11.03.2026 50

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James Delingpole

Television / Enjoyably old-fashioned: ITV’s The Lady reviewed

I lasted all of five minutes with Netflix’s tasting menu-length Being Gordon Ramsay. This surprised me, because I’ve long had a bit of a soft spot...

26.02.2026 40

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James Delingpole

Enjoyably old-fashioned: ITV's The Lady reviewed

I lasted all of five minutes with Netflix’s tasting menu-length Being Gordon Ramsay. This surprised me, because I’ve long had a bit of a soft spot...

26.02.2026 40

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James Delingpole

The BBC’s Lord of the Flies is mesmerically brilliant

12.02.2026 40

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James Delingpole

Television / Gripping: Amazon Prime’s The Tank reviewed

02.02.2026 40

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James Delingpole

Gripping: Amazon Prime’s The Tank reviewed

29.01.2026 40

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James Delingpole

Television / Why has it all gone wrong for The Night Manager?

15.01.2026 50

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James Delingpole

Why has it all gone wrong for The Night Manager?

15.01.2026 90

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