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And Finally…

by Toby Young
15 November 2021 8:30 PM

In this week’s London Calling, James and I discuss the COP26 coal deal and wonder whether Greta Thunberg will stage a protest outside the Chinese Embassy in Stockholm (fat chance); give a shout out to David Perry, the heroic taxi driver whose quick thinking thwarted the terrorist attack in Liverpool; doff our caps to John Cleese, whose self-cancellation forced the President of the Cambridge Union to do a reverse ferret on his proposal to black-list certain speakers in advance; and, in Culture Corner, The Brothers Karimazov, War of the Wolf, American Crime Story: Impeachment, Invasion and Midnight Mass, the new Netflix series which James says has taken a “weird turn”.

You can listen to the podcast here and subscribe to it on iTunes here.

Tags: COP26David PerryGreta ThunbergJohn CleeseLondon Calling

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Mark
3 years ago

“in Culture Corner, ….. Midnight Mass, the new Netflix series which James says has taken a “weird turn”.”

Well, highly unusually I actually followed a London Calling recommendation to watch this, when Delingpole said this one seemed a bit unusual in presenting a Christian priest in a straightforwardly positive light (though iirc he also admitted that it was rather ominous that the doctor on this remote, backward island was a lesbian – probably the only small backward declining fishing community in the world (outside Scandinavia, perhaps) with a lesbian doctor and a muslim sheriff).

I started watching it and it was quite interesting, but it rapidly became clear that it was going to go the usual modern American TV/film way, demonising Christians and worshipping woke identitarianism.

It was pretty cheesy and silly in some of its fantasy plot elements as well, but the basic plot idea was nevertheless quite original and interesting.

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peyrole
3 years ago
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‘spoiler’, the last episode is a cop out by the writers etc. Amazingly for a US series, its too short, left far too many loose ends and characters, unless of course they intend series2. If watched to the end it doesn’t demonise ‘christians’, but it certainly won’t get sponsorship from the vatican!

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
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I did watch it to the end, though it got a bit silly, and I don’t agree it doesn’t demonise Christians. Spoiler block in case anyone reads this who wants to watch it.

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Note who the main bad characters were – the priest and the church admins, and who the main heros were: atheists/agnostics, the lesbian doctor and the muslim.

As for loose ends at the end, didn’t everyone die except for the two kids?

But I think the basic idea of the dying priest getting taken in by a vampire posing as an angel was quite original and clever.

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
3 years ago

Dear god … it is a cult …

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago
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Oh, how pweety!

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago

LMAO, the worst cold ever? Had your booster yet?

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
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As far as I can recall, Young hasn’t had the “vaccine”.

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago
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He confides in you, does he?

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
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Just what he has said publicly.

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