James Delingpole James Delingpole

High five

You don't get quite the same production values in things like C5's How the Victorians Built Britain but you don't get the PC bollocks of Bodyguard and King Arthur's Britain

What a load of utter tripe Bodyguard (BBC1, Sundays) was. Admittedly, I came to it late having missed all the sex scenes with Keeley Hawes and Robb Stark, which may have dazzled me in the way they seem to have dazzled many impressionable viewers.

Sex scenes in TV drama are a bit like the chaff used by fighters to distract radar-guided missiles.

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