I’m watching BBC’s Question Time. I usually give it a pretty wide birth. It’s bad for the old blood pressure. If this is the nation thinking, we’re done for.
The rehearsal of idée fixes, the dog whistle politics and the same old pundits paid to be promiscuous with opinion. Tonight is no exception. It’s Punch and Judy. It sounds like your eighth year “your mumming” in the corridor of a wet Thursday. There’s the same Five Positions on the panel – with minor variations. Tonight we have Presentable UKIP (an oxymoron?), Sensible New Labour, who could put bricks to sleep, Shrill Businesswoman, who calls spades spades, Tory Minister, who is. I’m afraid, the Gove at full throttle ... and finally the Dead Clever Scribe Will Self, who is winding up Middle England with our opening quotation.
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