James Delingpole

The Irishman reviewed

Helen Mirren is 74 years old while the character she plays — at least at the start of the mini-series — is 33 years old

I loved every second of it

The Boys reviewed

Where season one had the creeping menace of Alien, the mood here is closer to Scooby-Doo

On the surface, Ted Bundy was good-looking, normal-behaving and could be disarmingly charming

How else could a drama as knowing and meta and arch do anything other than disappear up its own bottom?

The way Kondo does it is really quite inspirational. And relatively painless

The phrase ‘get woke, go broke’ captures well why Doctor Who was losing fans – and I’m not sure the writing in the new series dispenses with this problem

The former British Shadow Chancellor’s new documentary is more favourable of Trumpsters than anyone at the BBC could have ever imagined.

Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest series Who Is America? isn’t funny. But then, nor was his terrible 2016 movie The Brothers Grimsby. Nor was his rubbish 2012 film The Dictator. Nor, let’s be honest, were his classic original characters Borat, Brüno or even Ali G. Obviously, they had their moments: the ‘mankini’ — that bizarre, electric

When President Trump refused to take a question from a CNN reporter at the Chequers press conference last week, I imagine a lot of British viewers thought —as Theresa May clearly did — that he was being graceless, capricious and anti-freedom of speech. But I think we’re in danger of underestimating the extent to which

‘The rule in our household is: if a TV series hasn’t got subtitles, it’s not worth watching,’ a friend told me the other day. Once this approach would have been both extremely limiting and insufferably pompous. In the era of Netflix and Amazon Prime, though, it makes a lot of sense. There’s something about English-speaking