How Meghan Markle wins the White House
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Welcome to Meghan’s world, where artifice, pop culture and politics march in lockstep
Alexander Larman
Alexander Larman is an author and the US books editor of The Spectator.
Thursday
Wednesday
Fawning over Kamala
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A new book attempts the impossible but offers little beyond platitudes
Tuesday
Threatened with yet another Downton Abbey film
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The (initially glorious) franchise plods on and on and…
Thursday
The Crown flirts with the unthinkable
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Will the next season suggest what many already believe about Princess Diana’s death?
Monday
The decline of the woke Marvel superhero movie
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The formula has run out of gas — and audiences seem to have had enough
Thursday
The Grand Old Duke of York attacks an Epstein victim
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Prince Andrew has never looked more desperate and vindictive
Friday
What’s wrong with Queen Elizabeth?
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Something might well be wrong
Monday
Mel Gibson defies the keyboard cancelers
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The bête noire for liberals in Hollywood is back yet again
Monday
Turning the page on James Bond
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James Bond was first a literary hero
Wanted this Halloween: terror films, not horror
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No more joyless Michael Myers slogs!
Wednesday
Succession is the wittiest, darkest show on TV
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The narcissism of the self-absorbed rich is always fun to watch
Wednesday
Squid Game’s bloody attack on inequality and dehumanization
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Netflix’s biggest hit ever startles us with our own powerlessness
Tuesday
Dave Eggers cancels Amazon
Selling books through Amazon is now part and parcel of a working author’s life. It would be a brave writer who decided to refuse to allow their work to be sold through earth’s biggest retailer. But that is exactly what Dave Eggers has done with his new book, The Every, which he has decreed can
Wednesday
Did the music industry enable R. Kelly?
As Harvey Weinstein was to film, so Robert ‘R.’ Kelly has been to the music industry. An energetic and profligate figure who enjoyed enormous commercial and artistic success in his heyday, Kelly’s downfall, with his convictions on nine charges of sex trafficking and racketeering, is now total. It looks likely he will be given a
Wednesday
Why isn’t Netflix canceling Roald Dahl?
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There’s money to be made in spite of his anti-Semitism and contempt for big business
Monday
The Crown will long reign o’er the Emmys
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The show is a comforting reminder of when the British royal family was unassailable
Thursday
Shakespeare is getting trigger warnings
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Shakespeare, after decades of being found to be Problematic, is now being reclaimed as the wokemeister-in-chief
Tuesday
The smug self-satisfaction of the Met Gala
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The powerful hypocritically signal their virtue while everyone else laughs
Wednesday
Life on campus is so much worse than The Chair
For those disappointed by the humorless and deeply earnest treatment of the contemporary campus experience in the 2020 TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People, the new Netflix series The Chair will be a welcome tonic. Over its punchy six half-hour episodes, the show, co-created by the actress Amanda Peet and produced by her husband
Thursday
The cult of Sally Rooney
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Not a godlike millennial sage, but a talented author at the start of a promising career
