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Flat White

I’m from the government, and I’m here to threaten you

25 June 2023

4:00 AM

25 June 2023

4:00 AM

These days I try to limit my TV viewing to sport. Every other genre, from drama to game-show to (especially) news, has lost its lustre. Even sport is starting to get on my nerves. Every week there is some cause or other that takes over the pre-game analysis and (intentionally?) plunges the viewer into a well of despair over a war, or a disease, or a tragedy, or a cause, or an ideology.

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