Jane Austen

Television

The Diplomat is top trash

Though it’s set in the world of diplomacy and politics, it shows about as much interest in either of the above as, say, High School Musical does

James Delingpole

‘Quite’ has gone quite wrong

Something has gone wrong with the use of ‘quite’

Dot Wordsworth

The not-so-sweet roots of ‘nice’

Nice, as in ‘a nice cup of tea,’ was a word loathed by my schoolmistresses

Dot Wordsworth

Everyone involved in Netflix’s Persuasion should be in prison

Not for life, but until we could be confident they’d learned the error of their ways

Deborah Ross

Film

The latest Jane Austen adaptation is dreadful

‘It’s often said that if you’re a five in London, you’re a ten in Bath’

Alexander Larman