How I learned to embrace my inner toff
I do hope it’s a terrible winter this year: a total bastard where everyone’s snowed into their drives and those…
I was so looking forward to The Grand Tour but it’s not there yet
Apart from the next Game of Thrones, there’s nothing I’ve been looking forward to quite as much as The Grand…
It's tough being the only British journalist who's right about everything
So I made £250 betting on Trump to win the presidency. It would have been more, except that every time…
Netflix’s The Crown is so good I’m considering giving up on terrestrial TV altogether
Nairobi. February 1952. Laughing children brandishing sticks are driving an indignant bustle of ostriches up a rudimentary 1950s-Africa semi-bush runway…
Hell is other people’s dogs – Michael and Sarah’s, for instance
I’ve now just about reached that delightful stage in life where you’re no longer exposed to the horrors of other…
High-end headphones: can you get away with such a monstrously selfish treat?
Your ears really do deserve high-end headphones, insists James Delingpole
Gloriously compulsive and maddening: Adam Curtis’s HyperNormalisation reviewed
‘Adam Curtis believed that 200,000 Guardian readers watching BBC2 could change the world. But this was a fantasy. In fact,…
Universities’ most freakish, isolated minority: non-lefties
A few columns ago, I told the mortifying story of how I totally died at the Oxford Union. Today I’m…
The free-market glory of Hong Kong food
Every road leads to another restaurant in this rampant city, finds James Delingpole
Lushly pleasing and full of existential complexity: Sky Atlantic’s Westworld reviewed
The other day James Lovelock, the sprightly 97-year-old inventor of Gaia theory, told a mildly surprised Guardian interviewer that he…
I want my Brexit good and strong (and Theresa May seems to agree)
What you really should have done if you were in Birmingham on Monday this week was skip the not notably…
Nostalgic, compulsive, edge-of-seat entertainment: Netflix’s Stranger Things reviewed
Stranger Things is the most delightful, gripping, charming, nostalgic, compulsive, edge-of-seat entertainment I’ve had in ages. Like a lot of…
Hong Kong shows what post-Brexit Britain could be
Since he moved to Hong Kong three years ago, the Rat’s Cantonese has been coming on apace. This has rather…
ITV's Victoria is silly, facile and irresponsible – I blame the feminisation of culture
Did you know that Queen Victoria might never have married Prince Albert had it not been for an amazing stroke…
What you learn when you learn a poem by heart
I’ve just learned by heart another poem — my first in nearly 30 years. The one I chose was A.E.…
Watching old, unPC sitcoms should be part of the national curriculum
I think I might be turning into Alf Garnett. When I was growing up I saw him as an obnoxious,…
George Osborne’s gone, thank God. So why’s Mark Carney still around?
Did you see that odd photo of George Osborne looking shifty, queuing up in the Vietnamese jungle for the chance…
A few things you didn't know about the Great British Bake Off – such as how it's all faked
You know when late summer has arrived because conkers are starting to form on the horse chestnuts, your eagerness to…
Why isn’t arse quality included in the judging for the diving? The Rio Olympics reviewed
Stuff I have learnt after two solid weeks watching the Olympics on TV. 1. Tennis and golf shouldn’t be Olympic…
Christopher Biggins and the fall of civilisation
Suppose you’d invited me round to dinner to celebrate my engagement to your daughter, which do you think would be…
Why Channel 4’s new reality TV series, Eden, should actually be called Die, Hippies! Die!
The unacknowledged subtitle of Channel 4’s new reality series Eden (Mondays) is Die, Hippies! Die! Obviously they’re not going to…
Why the alt-right isn’t wrong
I got told off this week by a presenter on BBC radio for using a four-letter word live on air.…
In Ross Kemp the Kurds have found their Byron: Sky 1’s The Fight Against Isis reviewed
Before I set about reviewing Ross Kemp: The Fight Against Isis (Sky 1), I thought I’d have a glance to…
Brexit won the battle. But now we’ve lost the war
When Jonathan Swift wanted to mock the immeasurable superficiality of British politics, he imagined it as a contest between the…
Be kind to Remainers: now we really are in it together
‘Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.’ I think this is…
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