Mossad’s Lara Croft
If you love Fauda — and of course you do — you’re in for a long wait for season four,…
The boys are back in town
There’s a delicious scene in the new season of Amazon’s superheroes-gone-bad series The Boys. The chief superhero Homelander (Antony Starr)…
Who dares wins
‘Art is dead,’ declared Mark Steyn recently. He was referring to the new rules — copied from the Baftas —…
Bearing all
Few things better capture the crazed cognitive dissonance of our age than this: that while we cower behind masks for…
Illegal raves
Every time I read that Britain’s anti-coronavirus measures are being jeopardised by a ‘small minority of senseless individuals’ holding illegal…
Television Keep it in the family James Delingpole
‘By the way, my name is Max. I take care of them, which ain’t easy, because their hobby is murder.’…
Lockdown notes
A good war Who could ever have imagined that the greatest act of rebellion in the second decade of the…
Bonjour happiness
Soon, very soon now — even sooner than I imagined, if A Suitable Boy turns out to be as lacklustre…
Why I love the French
There’s a scene in the French espionage series The Bureau — about the DGSE, France’s equivalent of the CIA or…
Trump shouldn’t wear a mask
Next time Donald Trump poses for a photo call in one of those ridiculous, unnecessary and completely off-brand face masks,…
Pure poison
The big mistake people make with Alan Bennett is to conflate him with his fellow Yorkshireman David Hockney. But whereas…
Dystopian notes
Albion is toast Australia: will you take me? You’ve always been high on my list of escape destinations when everything…
Speak of the devil
Did Jeffrey Epstein kill himself or was he murdered — and frankly who cares? Actually, having watched the four-part Netflix…
Sex, drugs and disappointment
If I could live my life over again my plan used to be that I’d make my fortune very early,…
Lessons in terror
Sweden is now properly celebrated as the Land that Called Coronavirus Correctly. But in the distant past, those with long…
The great escape
When I lived briefly in Stamford Hill I was mesmerised by the huge fur hats (shtreimel) worn by the local…
A leftie jumps out of the closet (no, not that closet)
Michael Moore’s new film exposes the renewables hoax
Testing times
Imagine rooting for the Australian cricket team. If you’re Scottish, Welsh or Irish — or Australian obviously — it might…
Race relations
Some years ago I was invited to the British Grand Prix at Silverstone courtesy of a watch manufacturer. As freebies…
Foreign language TV is without the political correctness spoiling English drama
Every cloud has a silver lining. Never again are you likely to have a better opportunity to catch up with…
Wu flu notes
My Coronavirus hell Many of you will be wondering what it’s like to get the coronavirus – aka Wu Flu,…
Should ‘Spanish flu’ have been known as ‘American flu’?
There’s an ongoing debate in the media as to whether or not president Trump is being ‘racist’ by repeatedly referring…
The abbey habit
The world may be going to hell in a handcart but some things remain reassuringly unchanged: Julian Fellowes period dramas…
Short notes
Confessions of a Coronavirus vulture The luckiest man in the world is a financier friend of mine who decided two…
Why I’ve lost respect for Jeremy Clarkson
If Jeremy Clarkson had lived through the Wars of the Roses he would have been neither a Yorkist nor a…
