Reviews

Bored to tears by the piety and sermonising that now infect the BAFTA awards, Pissed-off Toff wonders whether this event has had its day. The fact that the organisers of … Keep Reading

Pissed-off Toff questions the competence of the well-known telly-don Mary Beard. Now that the television presenter and Cambridge classicist Mary Beard is yet again on the small screen, it seems … Keep Reading

Pissed-off Toff sees fascinating parallels between the predicament of Prince Andrew and the Diamond Necklace Affair which shook the French monarchy to its foundations. You know how when you watch … Keep Reading

Pissed-off Toff reviews two TV documentaries about members of the Royal Family, and reports mixed feelings. Both ITV and Channel 4 wanted maximum exposure for their documentaries about Harry & … Keep Reading

Pissed-off Toff reviews two shows – one of them appallingly awful; the other brilliantly awful. Let’s take a look at two shows, one of them so awful that you really … Keep Reading

Pissed-off Toff reviews The Great Fire of London – Hour by Hour … a repeat screening of a TV mini-series which is not so much a historical documentary, as an exercise … Keep Reading

Pissed-off Toff denounces Britain’s ugliest female ‘comedian’. I am alone in London this summer, which serves me right, granted the misguided life-choices I have made. Top of my to-do list … Keep Reading

Pissed-off Toff is surprised that The Spectator, of all magazines, should run a piece about Eton that is so markedly off-centre. It might not seem the best of ideas to … Keep Reading

Pissed-off Toff attempts to analyse his dislike of a man whose surname has four letters, and moves on to a more serious consideration. It’s not Jeremy’s fault, I suppose, that … Keep Reading

Pissed-off Toff loathes, despises and detests the Glastonbury Festival … which, he argues, has not a little in common with the Nuremberg Rallies. I’ve occasionally wondered. Should one pronounce ‘Glastonbury’ … Keep Reading