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Prince Andrew and me
No use piling on where Prince Andrew is concerned. It’s a sorry business, and he’s not among the brightest either.…
The joy of my grandson’s baptism
They were putting the finishing touches to the giant tent as I drove up to Schloss Wolfsegg after an hour’s…
Gloriously un-PC: Chris Lilley’s Swiftian, scabrous, gleefully misanthropic Lunatics reviewed
‘Unfunny, boring and utterly unrelenting,’ says the Guardian’s one-star review of Chris Lilley’s new sketch series Lunatics (Netflix). And if…
Sebastian Flyte had nothing on me: memories of a misspent youth
Charlottesville is an enchanting Virginia college town graced by the neoclassical architecture of the university’s founder, Thomas Jefferson. I flew…
Why has Frankie Boyle gone so soft?
‘I spend a lot of time helping teenagers who’ve been sexually abused…’ — beat — ‘…find their way out of…
I’ve never seen Coogan better or Partridge funnier: This Time with Alan Partridge reviewed
Steve Coogan is back as Alan Partridge but frankly who cares? Like Ali G, I’ve long thought, he’s one of…
Why truth gets you nowhere
New York There is fear and loathing in this city, with men looking over their shoulders for the thought…
The new Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker is a delight – but the script isn't
You won’t be aware of this because the BBC has been keeping it very quiet. But the new Doctor Who…
All the good non-fiction that was ever on TV was made by middle-aged men
All the good non-fiction things that were ever on TV — from Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation to David Attenborough’s Planet Earth…
Holidays in Hell – Such A Pleasant Getaway from the BBC
Apparently there’s a new ‘character’ on University Challenge. I wouldn’t know. Last year, I vowed never again to raise my…
Great writers are found with an open mind
I’d been suffering under the misguided illusion that the purpose of mainstream publishers like Penguin Random House was to sell…
Were all those young lives lost at Normandy in vain?
I’m back in New York and digesting the five glorious days spent in Normandy. What was the fighting all about,…
Once you get over its political correctness, Netflix’s Godless is a cracker
Boy came to me the other night in a state of dismay. ‘Dad, I just turned on Match of the…
Everyone’s doing a mea culpa these days — except me
The faux Leonardo that sold for 400 million greenbacks — plus a 50 million fee for Christie’s — was a…
When did fiction become so dangerous?
The assignment of books for review has always been haphazard. Fellow fiction writers can be tempted either to undermine the…
Goodbye London, Reykjavik here I come
I have a message for the London mayor, Sadiq Khan: you and your policies stink! While the fuzz are busy…
Learn to navigate the elite’s new PC-speak – or else
Official PC-speak is ever more incomprehensible
Everything on television is policed by politically correct dwarves
My own fault, I suppose, for turning on the television. Not an action I undertake very regularly these days, because…
Lenin’s New Man has killed free speech
When the Germans smuggled arguably the world’s most evil man into Russia 100 years ago, they did not imagine the…
Don’t like Google’s diversity agenda? You’re fired!
Earlier this week, a technology website published an internal memo written by a Google employee called James Damore criticising the…
Even tea drinking is cultural appropriation now. Oh mea cuppa...
Even drinking tea is ‘cultural appropriation’ now
The newly refurbished National Army Museum is full of inaccuracies and post-colonial guilt
I used to love the National Army Museum in Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, which was crammed with the memorabilia of…
Why I’ve had it with Donald Trump
I feel like an obituary writer, what with Nick Scott, Roger Moore, Alistair Horne — all great buddies — and…
The mad, bad crusade against 'cultural appropriation'
It’s usually best to ignore the indignant fury of the 21st-century young. We’re used to them now, these snowflakes, posing…
For a real Oxbridge education, you now have to go to Durham
‘Should I just have done with it and tell them they’re a bunch of tossers?’ I was on my way…
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