Alex von Tunzelmann

Fifty years ago, a possibly mistaken murder and the disappearance of a playboy aristocrat gripped the nation. My documentary The Lucan Obsession starts this lunchtime at 1.45pm on BBC Radio 4. Or you can binge all 10 eps (they’re only 15 mins each) on BBC Sounds now. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Americans are just on the verge of accepting it’s probably not true and going to bed when suddenly all the Brits wake up and start hooting and hollering

At the core of transmisogyny is, inevitably, misogyny itself. The viciousness with which some people trash trans women for how they look, or their supposed artificiality, or perceived errors in their behaviour, comes from a fundamental loathing of any women who doesn’t conform to their expectations.

This is an important piece from a senior Holocaust scholar (who grew up in Israel and is an IDF veteran), and it’s important that it’s published in the NYT.

When people say that someone who has recently died was much nicer than their public persona, I just think: but most politicians (indeed most people) are capable of being perfectly amiable in a social context. Even people with the vilest views aren’t literally frothing at the mouth 24/7

Most uncharacteristically, I am watching the football. This is because I am in Paris and it seemed rude not to. Everyone in the bar stood to sing the Marseillaise, so I’m already extremely emotional

I feel this strongly. Give them the option of being taken more seriously when they’re older. Not to pile in on Prince Harry, who is rather going through it at the moment, but if you name your kid Archie because you don’t like the name Archibald, that doesn’t work: Archie carries implicit Archibald

Ah, but the spectacle of pompous, uptight men getting angrier and angrier with something slightly silly is extremely funny. Roderick Spode. Basil Fawlty. The entire comment section of the Daily Telegraph

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I think it might do quite a lot to establish the credibility of Count Binface.

Oh, it’s getting worse!

An extraordinary masterpiece. Even if you’re nowhere near the US, you can treat yourself to the double bill of Terminator and Terminator 2. They are brilliant and prescient.

Good lord

I can’t believe nobody has pointed this out to him, since he’s been saying this for ages. So I’m afraid the only possible conclusion is that he’s a total cunt.