James Delingpole James Delingpole

Dual control | 19 January 2017

It’s as if two teams were involved in making the show: Team Bold, and Team Utter Predictable BBC Crap

issue 21 January 2017

Revolting (Tuesdays) is the BBC2 comedy series that spawned the now-infamous sketch ‘Real Housewives of Isis’. It has been watched on the BBC’s Facebook page nearly 30 million times and rightly so because it is fearless, funny and near the knuckle.

A pastiche of reality TV shows set in places like Beverly Hills, the sketch depicts three young British jihadi brides brightly discussing their domestic lives in some Raqqa-like hellhole.

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