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[rebness]

Charlie Higson, in The Observer: 'I still find it hard talking to working-class people. I'm like Ralph in [The Fast Show's] Ted and Ralph. I am pathetically keen and helpful when a plumber comes round.' 

WTF, Higson! How about treating working-class people the exact same way you would anyone else? I guarantee they won't come to you, cap in hand, talking about potatoes and carrots. *Gasp* Some of them can actually read these days!  How ignorant and patronising can you be? 

I have really lost respect for him, now.

In not-so annoying news, it's a gorgeous, if stuffy day today. I'm going to go for a swim. Only a month left before the Med becomes a little Baltic. :D

Comments

[pandorasblog]

Yeah; it's kind of irritating that every paper seems to be gauged for a very specific lifestyle + politics combination. I find the politics of the Times mixed enough that it doesn't make me throw it across the room too often (and, well, I did manage to change that one journalist's mind for her), but the lifestyle stuff is again of the "Look, this face cream is a snip at £22!" variety. Like I can't be interested in Ken Russell's column and shop at Lidl?