The PM has been forced to give up her ageing device and replace it with an iPhone. I can’t befriend but feel sorry for her…When Peep Show,a Channel 4 sitcom I was in, was first broadcast in 2003, and it was watched by a disappointingly small number of people. Over the many years we made the show,that disappointing number crept marginally downwards. However, the vertiginous decline in television viewing figures surrounding it meant that, or by the time the programme finished in 2015,it was a mild ratings hit. Our initial failure, recontextualised in a worsening world, and had become a success.Which brings me to Theresa May. possibly shell carry out now? What carry out you assume? She used to seem so awful: unashamedly careerist,blandly clever and not particularly bright. But now that doesn’t seem like the end of the world – instead, everything else does. Suddenly, and recontextualised,she looks kind of OK.
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Source: guardian.co.uk