The worst agony aunt ever?
Pissed-off Toff is infuriated by Mary Killen, The Spectator’s ubiquitous agony aunt. The high point of my week is the arrival of The Spectator every Friday morning. Like a greedy … Keep Reading
The Day of the Jackal – a film review
On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Day of the Jackal, Pissed-off Toff reviews the film that ensued. When Frederick Forsyth wrote The Day of the Jackal back in 1970, … Keep Reading
The Denial: a review. Or: leave this country now.
Pissed-off Toff reviews Ross Clark’s Orwellian new novel entitled The Denial, and reflects that if he could leave this country, he would do so, immediately. It is easy to forget that … Keep Reading
The Serpent – a review
Pissed-off Toff reviews The Serpent, a BBC mini-series which he enjoyed so much that he watched it all over again. Among my father’s various peculiarities was his inability to follow the … Keep Reading
Cast Away: Is there a god?
Two viewings of a Tom Hanks film prompt Pissed-off Toff – more pissed-off than ever in this so-called ‘lockdown’ – to mull further over the most important question we face. … Keep Reading
Pride and Prejudice revisited
Pissed-off Toff’s first offering for the year of Our Lord MMXXI is not a seething polemic about the present, but a backwards look at a lost past and an exploration … Keep Reading
Benefits Britain – Apocalypse Now
Pissed-off Toff reviews a Channel 4 series on a social security system which now, more than ever, spells doom for Britain … The review that follows was going to be … Keep Reading
Meghan Markle and the blow-job
Unable to further contemplate the suicide of his land of birth, Pissed-off Toff looks for distraction, and finds it in a little-known film starring Meghan Markle … If, in the pre-Covid … Keep Reading
Parasite: a review
Pissed-off Toff reviews the award-winning film Parasite. Perhaps because it had won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2019 plus the BAFTA award this year for Best Foreign Film as well as … Keep Reading
The BAFTA awards and the tedium of ‘diversity’
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