Tellyland in a Time of Pestilence
What did Sting sing? ‘I’ve lost my belief of the people on TV’. Same here. All the mystique has been stripped away. There they are all cooped up in their homes, not at some studio desk or outside some important building. No, at home their talking faces filling the whole screen – some looking rather dishevelled I’ve got to say. I am thinking Stig Abel the editor of the TLS no less; bearded, bleary-eyed, in an old shirt, Stig of the Dump more like. And Laura has lost her lustre somehow. She’s looking unkempt with her hair dank her clothes looking unironed. Everyone’s looking rough. People are becoming not bothered about their apperarance. When appearance was everything. Andrew Pearce who had a bad bout of C19 was looking particularly rough a few times. A little better last night. And they’re all (the commentators) getting a bit short with their answers/ responses too. I noticed. Mathew Parris (paper review Sky) gave short 30 second answers. You could tell he was irritable. Sick to death of the whole thing. Sick to death of the confinement, sick to death of the subject of Covid,. The poor ‘chattering classes’ are suffering like the rest of us cunters. Because even though they’re got their huge shelves of books behind them to show how educated they are they are feeling the strain of confinement, they’re suffering the same chronic boredom. Poor things.
Nominated by Miles Plastic




