There’s more to patriotism than the BBC playing the same song every dayI think it’s vaguely important to revisit the fact that last week, Romford’s Convervative MP, Andrew Rosindell, took up actual time in parliament – I am loth to describe this time a…
Ready, steady … oh. Can a life coach shake me out of my pandemic-induced ennui?
It started in bed one morning when I realised I hadn’t had an original thought for months. I needed someone to make me wake upFor some reason it takes me two and a half hours to email my life coach. I write “email life coach guy” on my to-do list. I ha…
Reservation Dogs: the trippy teen comedy you’ll want to rewatch immediately
Hollywood’s weirdo-in-chief Taika Waititi serves up a fresh take on teens desperate to ditch their dead-end town with this strange, astounding show No more satisfying a setting for a TV show than “scratched-out craptown peopled by criminal-leaning ecce…
The economy has shafted millennials: now it wants their offspring too | Joel Golby
Yes, we know you can’t afford to have children. But if the economy tanks because of the low birthrate, you’ll be to blameEveryone likes babies, don’t they, with their little tiny toes and the fact that they don’t do anything and are constantly doing th…
Call that a summer? Now how will we cope with a Covid-ravaged autumn?
We needed warmth and fun and ice lollies to prepare us for the coming gloom. We got … more gloomI’ve been drenched in rain this week. Personally, I like it. I have a theory that everyone has a season that brings out the best in them, and for most norma…
British As Folk: three comedians in a campervan have fun with history
Hampered by a terrible name, Dave’s new travelogue investigating modern Britain is constantly entertainingHard to like a TV show with a terrible name, isn’t it? Let’s run over it again: British As Folk (Monday, 10pm, Dave). So it’s supposed to sound li…
Ready to Mingle: are we suffering from TV dating show fatigue?
ITV2’s complicated new series sees a single mingler pick one of 12 possible suitors, some of whom are already taken. It’s exhaustingRight, that’s it, it’s finally happened. The doctor just called and confirmed. I have Reality TV Dating Show Fatigue, a …
Vigil: Suranne Jones’s classy new drama is Sunday night TV at its best
This multilayered murder mystery set on a nuclear submarine takes the usual police procedural beats and gives them a new lease of lifeThere are three things we, as a nation, love and adore: bank holiday weekends, multilayered murder mysteries being sol…
Gossip Girl: a trashily brilliant reboot that might make you feel ancient
Original viewers of the soapy drama may be horrified to see it has been revived with a new set of privileged teens – but at least it’s still entertainingIf you wanted to launch an overt attack on 30-year-olds, I could think of little better than reboot…