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James Delingpole

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Alien: Earth is wantonly disrespectful to the canon

Alien: Earth is wantonly disrespectful to the canon
yesterday 10

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Television / I love how awful My Oxford Year is

Television /					 													 						I love how awful My Oxford Year is
tuesday 9

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I love how awful My Oxford Year is

I love how awful My Oxford Year is
14.08.2025 10

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Worth watching for Momoa’s gibbous-moon buttocks alone

Worth watching for Momoa’s gibbous-moon buttocks alone
07.08.2025 9

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Video / Long live YouTube! It has been good to conspiracists like me

Video /					 													 						Long live YouTube! It has been good to conspiracists like me
05.08.2025 10

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The demise of South Park

The demise of South Park
31.07.2025 2

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Television / Turgid, vacuous, portentous: The Sandman reviewed

23.07.2025 5

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Television / Turgid, vacuous, portentous: The Sandman reviewed

23.07.2025 5

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Television / The Simpsons may be genius – but it’s also evil

08.07.2025 2

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Television / The Simpsons may be genius – but it’s also evil

08.07.2025 4

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Television / The Simpsons may be genius – but it’s also evil

03.07.2025 5

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Television / Style, wit and pace: Netflix’s Dept. Q reviewed

19.06.2025 3

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Style, wit and pace: Netflix’s Dept. Q reviewed

19.06.2025 9

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Excruciating: Sirens reviewed

05.06.2025 4

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If you are of a certain age, you’ll really enjoy Tina Fey’s The Four Seasons

22.05.2025 7

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Television / Better than Hollywood: Netflix’s The Eternaut reviewed

20.05.2025 30

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Television / Better than Hollywood: Netflix’s The Eternaut reviewed

15.05.2025 3

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Better than Hollywood: Netflix’s The Eternaut reviewed

15.05.2025 8

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Confection of sex, bad history and nonsense: Apple TV+’s Carême reviewed

08.05.2025 8

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MobLand / It should be illegal for TV baddies to profit from their psychopathic acts

24.04.2025 10

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It should be illegal for TV baddies to profit from their psychopathic acts

24.04.2025 3

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Surprisingly good: Amazon Prime’s Last One Laughing reviewed

10.04.2025 5

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

27.03.2025 10

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

24.03.2025 30

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The downfall of climate change poster boy Michael Mann

20.03.2025 30

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

15.03.2025 10

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

13.03.2025 10

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

13.03.2025 10

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I’m warming to Meghan Markle – only joking

13.03.2025 10

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

04.03.2025 10

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I think I’ve found the perfect TV series

27.02.2025 10

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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 20

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

09.01.2025 3

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

09.01.2025 10

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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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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 20

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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 3

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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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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 6

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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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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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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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