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2 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Dot Wordsworth |Alexander Larman |Charles Cornish-Dale |cocaineBy James Delingpole
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been troubled by two verbal peculiarities in a week. The Duchess corrected a friend who called her “Meghan Markle” on television. “It’s so funny, too, that you keep saying Meghan Markle. You know I’m Sussex now,” she said. “This is our family name, our little family name.”Well, yes and no. Her children were registered as Mountbatten-Windsor at birth. That was a name invented by a declaration in the Privy Council in 1960.
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2 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | cocaineBy James Delingpole
You know that urge when you’ve got friends coming for the weekend and you just have to spend the previous week putting together all the essentials for a successful stay: personalized bags of truffle-flavored popcorn and pretzel nibbles for their bedside; hand-blended, sensually curated bath salts; layer cake flavored with honey from your private hives? Well, if you’ve never had that urge, I’ve got some disappointing news: Netflix’s With Love, Meghan may not be the program for you.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Matthew Lynn |Amy Everett |cocaineBy James Delingpole |Piers Morgan
Tariffs would destroy supply chains and drive up inflation. Elon Musk’s savage cuts would bring the government machine grinding to a halt. And chaotic policy making would drive investors out of the United States. As the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq all fell sharply over the last month, there were plenty of factors driving the “Trump Slump,” as it became known on Wall Street. But hold on. Sure, equities have corrected.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |cocaineBy James Delingpole |Justin Brierley
At one point during the part-concert film, part-documentary Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert, super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer refers to Hans Zimmer as “the greatest living film composer in the world.” Zimmer, present when such flattery is offered, does not exactly nod in agreement, but nor does he laugh it off.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | cocaineBy James Delingpole |Piers Morgan |Grace Curley |Teresa Mull
Even if you’ve never heard of Michael Mann, you will have felt his baleful influence on your energy bills. He is the inventor of the hockey stick chart, which shows a sharp increase in late 20th century global temperatures, like the blade of an ice hockey stick. It put rocket boosters on the climate change scare and was used as an excuse by policymakers to send green taxes, tariffs and regulations soaring.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Damian Reilly |Nigel Jones |Freddy Gray |cocaineBy James Delingpole
How will AI destroy humanity? Will it simply go house to house in robot form, slaughtering us where it finds us? Or will it instead discover that a certain property of our livers or spleens is the most cost-effective form of lubrication for one of its less important robotic joints, and harvest us for that property, as we now harvest chickens, in battery farms? It’s a fun thought experiment, no?
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Nigel Jones |Freddy Gray |cocaineBy James Delingpole |Leyla Sanai
When Donald Trump ordered the declassification of thousands of secret government documents on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, it seemed like it would be a red-letter day for America’s conspiracy theorists. The reality has been quite different. The JFK files — along with other documents about the killings of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., which were released on Tuesday — have turned out to be a major disappointment.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | cocaineBy James Delingpole |Leyla Sanai |Ross Anderson |Philip Womack
Drops of God is one of those gems of purest ray serene that cable TV prefers to keep hidden in its deep unfathomed caves because it thinks you want something more lowbrow. Try finding it by accident: you won’t. When I looked for it on Apple – which doesn’t have all that many shows – I had laboriously to type in its name. It wasn’t offered to me in the recommendations. If I hadn’t been tipped off by my friends Candy and Diarmuid, I would never have seen it.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Nancy Alsop |James Walton |cocaineBy James Delingpole |Matt Purple
We remain fascinated, even obsessed, by the Mitfords. Collectively, their existence is the stuff of legend: the affairs, the imprisonment, the polarized politics, the wit, the beauty, and the brutality, all in one glamorous package. In uncertain times, the sisters offer a flush of eccentric characters: Nancy the Novelist, Pamela the horsewoman, Diana the Fascist, Unity the Hitler-lover, Jessica the Communist and Debo the Duchess.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Philip Womack |Arabella Byrne |cocaineBy James Delingpole |Leyla Sanai
Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent burst into the world in 1987, zinging out of bookstores into bestseller-dom like nobody’s business. It concerned Rusty Sabich, a lawyer who became a suspect in the case he was prosecuting. There were enough twists and turns to satisfy the most Daedalian of labyrinth-makers, and its longevity was demonstrated by its being adapted into a new, Jake Gyllenhaal-starring show last year on Apple TV+.
