James Lovelock on voting Brexit, 'wicked' renewables and why he changed his mind on climate change
The environmental pioneer on voting Brexit, ‘wicked’ renewables and why he changed his mind on climate change
The State was gripping, moving and shocking – but it came at a moral cost
No, The State (Channel 4) wasn’t a recruiting manual for the Islamic State, though I did feel uneasy about it…
The story of Pecky, the young green woodpecker, could be a moneyspinner
Ever since I was a child, I’d always yearned to see a green woodpecker. With its scarlet cap and lime-green…
Why foreign TV series are so enjoyable – the sex is better
Valkyrien (C4, Sunday) is the hot new Scandi-noir series, which is being billed as Norway’s answer to Breaking Bad. In…
David Cameron’s kept his head down, so let him chillax
David Cameron was in the news again this week after being paid £1 million a minute to give a speech…
Netflix is great because (unlike the BBC) it doesn’t ram its politics down your throat
All this week I have been trying, with considerable success, to avoid being bludgeoned by TV programmes telling me in…
Justine Greening’s idiotic gender policy shows it’s time to give up on Toryism
I’ve had it with the Conservatives. For me, and I know I’m not the only one, the final straw was…
Game of Thrones should have at least arranged for Ed Sheeran to be stabbed
I’m a bit worried about Game of Thrones (Sky Atlantic). Not seriously worried: there’s too much money invested, too much…
Let's keep up the Moggmentum
‘We need to talk about why the internet is falling in love with Jacob Rees-Mogg, because it’s not OK,’ warns…
Cathar country, Carcassonne and cassoulet
I once spent three months living in the Languedoc, writing my first novel. The highlight was the few days I…
Why braindead filth like Love Island is such a breath of fresh air
Melvyn Bragg on TV: The Box That Changed The World (BBC2, Saturday) was just what you would have expected of…
The Bank of England is enslaved by green groupthink
I do find it odd that I’m so often having to write about the science of global warming, species extinction…
Sky Atlantic’s Riviera is fine if all you want is the TV equivalent of a computer screensaver
‘Riviera is the new Night Manager,’ I read somewhere. No, it’s not. Riviera (Sky Atlantic, Thursday) is the new Eldorado…
I hate to say it, but I can’t blame the millennials who voted for Corbyn
On the morning after the election I was drinking coffee with one of my heroes, Sir Roger Scruton. We talked…
Hippies gave us wonderful things, but they left an evil legacy too
There’s an incredibly addictive old iPhone game called Doodle God where you effectively invent civilisation from scratch by combining basic…
Do penises cause climate change? Discuss
‘Why not think about Gender Studies?’ asked an advertorial aimed at prospective students in the newspaper I was reading. Actually,…
In rock 'n' roll you need an accountant more than talent
Birds have been giving me a lot of grief of late. There’s Tappy — the blue tit who has built…
Theresa May is dead right to want to rescind the fox-hunting ban
Though I don’t think much of Theresa May’s paternalistic soft-left politics, I do like her no-nonsense style. That Q&A she…
This isn’t drama as most of us understand it: American Gods reviewed
Since completing season two of the brilliant Narcos, I’ve been unsuccessfully looking for a replacement serial drama that is more…
Jamie Oliver’s Lucozade meddling has stolen my childhood
Whenever I want to travel back in time to my 1970s childhood, all I need is a glass of Lucozade.…
However much you may loathe the fakery of reality TV, you cannot but admire the editing
The other day I had a very dispiriting conversation with a TV industry insider. It turns out that everything you…
Is Donald Trump’s revolution already over?
There were three reasons why I so badly wanted Donald Trump to win the US presidential election. One was that…
Self-flagellatory pornography designed for white liberal pillocks: Guerrilla reviewed
‘What we really need is a faux-historical drama series about police brutality and black activism set in 1970s London,’ said…
Britain’s most hated man isn’t all that hateful
‘Christ, I would be shot for buying this if people knew,’ says an anonymous fan in the comments below Amazon’s…
Jack Whitehall does Waugh proud: BBC1's Decline and Fall reviewed
Jack Whitehall could have been perfectly awful as Paul Pennyfeather in Decline and Fall (BBC1, Fridays). He has spent most…
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