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Glorious send-up

20th January 2010 James Delingpole

Bellamy’s People (BBC2, Thursday) began life in 2006 as a spoof Radio Four phone-in show called Down the Line presented by ‘award-winning’ Gary Bellamy (Rhys Thomas) with the Fast Show’s…

Childhood hero

6th January 2010 James Delingpole

I think I might be about the second-last person on earth finally to have replaced his squat, bulbous, stone-age TV set with one of those new angled, wide-screen, narrow, HD-ready…

If we’re going to rage against cultural atrocities, let’s make sure we target the right ones

6th January 2010 James Delingpole

The highlight of my Christmas holidays was taking the family to see Avatar. It’s not often a film comes along which wife, Boy (11), Girl (9) and I are able…

Territorial imperative

14th December 2009 James Delingpole

Ever since I gave up watching TV over Christmas and New Year I have become much, much happier. The reason Yuletide TV is so depressing is that — as with…

Watching the Climategate scandal explode makes me feel like a proud parent

9th December 2009 James Delingpole

It has been a weird, weird thing having a ringside seat at the messy unravelling of the greatest scientific scandal in the history of the world. The only experience in…

Time wasting

2nd December 2009 James Delingpole

I had to transfer some money into my Polish builder’s bank account the other day, so I rang up the Lloyds TSB Execmaster Super VIP service helpline. As usual, I…

What idiocy it is to regard whiteness as a problem in need of a remedy

25th November 2009 James Delingpole

‘Oh please let no one call Trevor McDonald a nignog. Oh, please. Oh please!’ It was sometime towards the end of the 1980s (before Britain’s first black newsreader got his…

Warts and all

18th November 2009 James Delingpole

With hindsight it was probably a mistake to sit down with my daughter to watch Enid (BBC4, Monday). Before it started, Girl was a massive fan, especially of the Naughtiest…

I’m famous at last — thanks to the internet (and this column)

11th November 2009 James Delingpole

I don’t know quite how to put this without sounding nauseatingly smug or dangerously hubristic, but I think I might finally have become almost-famous. The revelation occurred while I was…

Near flawless

4th November 2009 James Delingpole

A few months ago my wife said something to me so awful and shocking I contemplated divorce. ‘I don’t want to watch any more war programmes with you,’ she said.…