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The Dostoyevskyan Torment of Jamie Oliver
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After trudging through the ruins of my journalistic reputation – like Hiroshima without the inviting glow – I decided, stubbly and puffy-eyed, to review Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast. I mean, it’s filmed on Southend Pier, so that counts as ‘Travel’. And it’s a Jamie Oliver show, so the jokes write themselves – which meant I could have a few cans, rustle up some copy and piss off back to bed.
I can’t think of anyone with Jamie’s flair for spectacular unforced cockups in the public sphere. This is a man who, having criticised Gordon Ramsay for his profanity, was once evicted from his own house party for swearing. My favourite Scheisse – Trotzdem Jamie! moment is when Holly Willoughby made a joke about his dress sense and he replied that he was grateful for her candour because he thought checked shirts were symptomatic of a general emotional quandary in his life. There’s also that
The Burmese Conjuncture: My Failed Journalistic Career
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I’ve been half-watching Roadkill, the ‘British political thriller’ on the BBC. As far as I can tell, it’s about prisons and the NHS and corruption blah blah blah etc etc. Everyone speaks in complete paragraphs but swears lots so that they sound like real bloody human damn beings. Like many human beings, they initiate sex with each other by delivering monologues about the Conservative Party. It’s like being stuck in a lift with a Varsity columnist.
As for her personality, she’s an alcoholic who enjoys pro bono sex with lawyers.
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