The main topic of conversation for family and friends these days is which box set you’re currently watching.
I am no different. So here it is: Landman. That’s brilliant.
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Landman is the best television show I’ve seen in years, because there is no workstation Credit: AP
Oh, I did Brassica, and The Americans, and Rogue Heroes, and Game of Thrones, and Wolf Hall, and Yellowstone. And they were all very good. But Landman is different.
It’s about an oilman from Texas who has to deal with marauding drug cartels, a crazy wife, a son who is constantly being beaten and a beautiful daughter who is always walking around in her underwear.
It has sex, violence, a great script and, with Billy Bob Thornton, Demi Moore and John Hamm, a great cast too.
So far so normal. But after watching a few episodes, something started to dawn on me. . .
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Today, when you turn on the television, you know what awaits you.
In every post-football debate there will be a woman and in every drama there will be a homosexual and someone struggling with their gender identity.
And even in the middle of an alien gunfight, there will be a lecture about global warming and why the state of Israel is evil.
Then, in the commercial break, you’ll have a man in a turban enjoying some kind of new yogurt with his black wife and their Norwegian-looking children.
This is the world and the way today’s young people want it to be. It’s the same story with politics.
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Today there is no room for debate in movies or on TV. Just for the facts available on Instagram.
Your milk should come from walnuts. Your car should be electric.
You should be proud of your son’s gender reassignment, and Donald Trump is a dick.
But then comes Landman, where the main character tells us that beer doesn’t count as drinking, and one of the actors who says there’s nothing wrong with drinking a little alcohol while you’re breastfeeding.
Oh, and you should see everyone’s reaction when offered a Bud Light.
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No business at all, not even a hint of political correctness or diversity Credit: AP
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It seems unbelievable that the producers of Landman ever commissioned it Credit: Viacom International Inc Landman and all related titles,
There’s more. Billy Bob explains to his city attorney that wind turbines are useless and oil is the only way forward, then lights another cigarette before dashing off to break someone’s jaw.
These things are not put down the throat. It’s so subtle that it takes you a while to notice that there isn’t an iota of banter, or even a hint of political correctness or diversity.
These are oilmen and they act and talk like oilmen.
God knows how the producers ordered him in the first place.
But they did, and they ended up with a drama, not a lecture.
It’s the best thing I’ve seen on television in years.
ALLEGEDLY, one in three young people are absent from work because they are worried about losing their job.
Hmmm. That sounds like a vicious cycle to me.
Because the more time you give up, the more likely you are to get fired.
Relax Emma
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BBC correspondent Emma Vardy should consider that Britain is also a capitalist countryCredit: Submitted
The BBC’s very busy Los Angeles correspondent, Emma Vardy, told Radio 4 this week that some wealthy people whose homes have been threatened by recent fires have used private fire brigades to tackle the blaze.
She explained that this may sound strange to people in the UK, but America is a capitalist country.
Er, I know it annoys Starmer and Reeves and quite a few people at the BBC, but Britain is also a capitalist country.
That’s why we have private doctors and private schools, and why some streets in wealthy neighborhoods now have private security patrols.
Of course, all these things could be abolished. We could use the state for everything.
And then it would be like in North Korea.
There would be no privileges. And everyone would be equally miserable.
ROSS MEREDITH, a police inspector with 27 years of service was sacked after he said the Just Stop Oil protesters were “retarded” and “spoiled children with special needs”.
Exactly right. You just can’t use that kind of language anymore.
This is why this morning I will describe the people who replaced him as “not very smart”.
God Tosh
EVERY year there is a new word that bored young people on social media are quick to adopt.
We had a “journey”, to describe their journey from supermarket shelf stacking to X Factor and back.
Then we had “literally,” which was used before, literally, every word.
Now, after going through “unreserved”, to describe literally any apology, and “profound”, always used in tandem with “unreserved”, we come to “outrageous”.
Which is now used every day by literally every Labor MP on their way from the limelight back to the planning department at Slough Council.
Planet Earth is blue…and there’s nothing we can do
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Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are currently trapped aboard the International Space StationCredit: AP
BACK in June, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were whisked away to the International Space Station, thinking they would only be there for a week.
But then a bug was found on the spaceship that was supposed to bring them back. So now they are even worse.
They were told Elon Musk would come to the rescue, maybe in March, but this week they looked out the window and saw his rocket explode into a million pieces over the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Well now, God knows what will happen. All we can hope for is that they remembered to leave enough food for the cat.
It means a lot of good
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Guests now consume 1.8 percent fewer calories than before, the same as two almondsCredit: Alamy
The government always knows best.
That’s why there are no potholes on the roads, the NHS is smoothly efficient, our submarines never run out of food while on patrol, and the economy kicks off nicely thanks to an optimistic boom.
It’s also why the scheme forcing pub and restaurant owners to tell customers how many calories each menu item contains has been such a huge success.
No, wait, maybe I got it a little wrong.
He didn’t achieve stunning successes at all. Because people in the hospitality industry are forced to spend time and money, which they don’t have, working out how fat the food will make their customers, and then more time and money changing all their menus.
And did it work? Well, research has shown that when diners are shown how many calories an individual dish contains, they don’t really care.
Data that has just been published shows that, on average, guests are now consuming 1.8 percent fewer calories than before.
Which in a 600 calorie meal is equal to two almonds. Or a Pringle.
So all that time, all that effort, all that Whitehall nannying, and it hardly makes any difference.
And there are people there who think that the government should be in charge of railways. . .
Hairpin to spend
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Aston Martin F1 has denied it is prepared to break the bank to sign Max Verstappen. Credit: Getty
The Aston Martin F1 team this week denied rumors that it would invest $1 billion to bring in Max Verstappen as its main driver.
Good. Because if they blew a billion, one of two things would happen.
They would win the world championship and everyone would say, “It’s inevitable if you spend so much.”
Or they wouldn’t win and everyone would split up laughing, while often saying “Man City”.
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