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3 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | cocaineBy James Delingpole
“Next time you do a review, you’ve got to find something you like. You’ve been far too negative,” said the Fawn. “Well, it’s hardly my fault if everything on TV is crap at the moment. I can’t just call up good stuff to order,” I said. “Try,” said the Fawn. Luckily – and unwontedly – Netflix has come to my rescue with a dystopian sci-fi series called The Eternaut.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | cocaineBy James Delingpole
Tina Fey’s The Four Seasons is one of those shows you notice in the “Top TV Programs on Netflix” section, see it’s some kind of glossy romantic comedy starring actors you’ve vaguely heard of, and skip past quickly in search of something with zombies or subtitles. This would be a mistake though because, at least if you are of a certain age, you’re really going to enjoy it.
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2 months 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 months 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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Mar 24, 2025 | 
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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Mar 24, 2025 | 
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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Mar 24, 2025 | 
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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Mar 21, 2025 | 
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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Mar 20, 2025 | 
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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Mar 20, 2025 | 
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.
