From teapots to rare meat, my Britain is becoming a lost country
There was a letter to the Daily Telegraph last weekend which depressed me more than anything I’ve read in ages.…
If you’re my age, the present is a foreign country
There was a letter to the Daily Telegraph last weekend which depressed me more than anything I’ve read in ages.…
Will you miss Mad Men? James Delingpole won’t
Mad Men looked great but, as the final season draws to a close, was there really anything to it, wonders James Delingpole
I have the right to raise my monsters as I wish
I was on the phone to Girl, thinking of something interesting to tell her. ‘Oh yeah,’ I said. ‘And this…
I don’t want anyone telling me how to raise my monsters
I was on the phone to Girl, thinking of something interesting to tell her. ‘Oh yeah,’ I said. ‘And this…
The Great European Disaster on BBC4 reviewed: propaganda worthy of Leni Riefenstahl
My favourite bit of The Great European Disaster (BBC4, Sunday) was the lingering shot that showed golden heads of corn…
Two shops. Two philosophies. Which side are you on?
Are you Lush or are you Aldi? Me, I’m Aldi all the way. So much so that when someone —…
A tale of two shops – and two philosophies
Are you Lush or are you Aldi? Me, I’m Aldi all the way. So much so that when someone —…
UKIP: The First 100 Days, Channel 4, review: a sad, predictable, desperate hatchet job
Just three months into Ukip’s shock victory as the party of government and already Nigel Farage’s mob are starting to…
The Master of the Universe who taught me that life is about much more than money
God it’s nauseating when an exact university contemporary of yours turns out to have become a hugely successful investor with…
A life-changing lunch with an old acquaintance
God it’s nauseating when an exact university contemporary of yours turns out to have become a hugely successful investor with…
Arabian Motorcycle Adventures review: enthralling and constantly surprising
There were great numbers of young men who had never been in a war and were consequently far from unwilling…
The hottest year on which record?
Did you know that 2014 was the hottest year ever recorded in the entire history of the world? Probably you…
The hottest year on which record?
Did you know that 2014 was the hottest year ever recorded in the entire history of the world? Probably you…
Broadchurch, review: ‘unwatchable’
Probably the two greatest advances in western culture in my lifetime have been the Sopranos-style epic serial drama and the…
Standing firm is the price of civilisation. Are we still ready to pay it?
Reading Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, as I have recently, you cannot help but be struck by what a perfectly…
At the start of a long war, would we remember our sense of duty?
Reading Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, as I have recently, you cannot help but be struck by what a perfectly…
It's because Corden is such a dick that The Wrong Mans was so blindingly brilliant
God, it must be awful to have been at school with James Corden. As he sat fatly at the back…
What techies are actually doing when they fix your computer
Just before Christmas I achieved something so totally, incredibly amazing that I think it probably ranks among the greatest things…
The secret of my most amazing achievement ever
Just before Christmas I achieved something so totally, incredibly amazing that I think it probably ranks among the greatest things…
This Christmas, I wish you the gift of flu
Have you had the horrid bug that’s going round yet? I’ve got it now and I do hope you get…
How to win MasterChef - and why salmon is the fish of the devil
If ever my near-neighbour William Sitwell is killed in a bizarre shooting accident and I end up taking his place…
All I want for Christmas is another dose of the flu
Have you had the horrid bug that’s going round yet? I’ve got it now and I do hope you get…
Why tackle someone's argument when you can just pick a word and take offence at it?
Michael Gove was on BBC Question Time the other night, fielding questions about such contentious subjects as education, immigration and…
Why argue when you can simply take offence?
Michael Gove was on BBC Question Time the other night, fielding questions about such contentious subjects as education, immigration and…
