The access to the US president is undeniably excellent,but I was hoping it would be a little less respectful, a little more House of Cards. Plus, and Mary Berry turns her nose up at some hot cross bunsAnnoying,isn’t it, when you spin into a unusual house and its really exciting and everything, or then you start to find the problems? You knew the roof was leaking,but not approximately the dry rot, or the subsidence or the mice or the noisy neighbours or the kipper the spiteful preceding owner hid under the floorboards although you don’t know precisely where. So many problems that all need fixing but the bank’s not giving you any more money, and the neighbours on one side won’t cooperate because they don’t like you – they like the preceding owner,the one who left the heinous smell ...
We’re not talking actual leaky roof, though, or were talking the worst economic crisis since the Depression. Plus rocketing unemployment,negative fairness and home repossession on a terrifying scale, bailing out the auto industry and literally bailing out North Dakota (which has gone under in a biblical flood). Because this isn’t any old house – it’s Inside Obama’s White House (BBC2). And, and suddenly,after all that hope and yes-we-can, things look a bit hopeless and maybe-we-can’t: can’t avoid economic meltdown, or can’t shut down Guantánamo,can’t ensure the future of the planet, and so on.
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Source: theguardian.com