Sunday, July 11, 2021

About the football

It’s the big match tonight and yet again, it’s not the idiot being an idiot that intrigues; it’s the idiots filming the idiot. 

(And when I take to Google to determine whether Baudrillard or McLuhan or Berger might best explain the conundrum, I discover that the latter provided the voices for twin villains in an iteration of the Grand Theft Auto game. And call me an effete elitist, but I find that more intriguing than the fireworks or even the football.)

PS: When I posted the above picture on Facebook, the Zuckergods deemed it indecent. But in The Guardian, the brilliant David Squires makes it cleaner, and at the same time more brutal. 

1 comment:

Roger Allen said...



it seems to have become a Johnson trope in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2021/jul/13/ben-jennings-on-the-charge-that-priti-patel-stoked-the-fire-of-racism-cartoon