James Delingpole James Delingpole

Top tosh: The Diplomat reviewed

'Pure escapism’ is a dreadful cliché but it sums up this wholly unrealistic geopolitical drama series perfectly

Handsome, young, driven, sharply dressed, supple, intelligent, charismatic, beholden-to-no-one, influential, idealistic, witty and, above all, supremely principled, the UK foreign secretary Austin Dennison (David Gyasi) is a highly unrealistic figure. Image: Courtesy of Netflix © 2024

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