The Self Respect Filter

It's invisible, anonymous, mutates and is passed easily from person to person. It can quickly overwhelm entire communities in hours.

If we mask up for Coronvirus, why don't we do so for the media we consume?

My normal habit is to get up early, have a cup of tea (Compulsory. I'm English) and spend some quiet time greeting the morning before too many people have used it. all is well.

Then, I turn on BBC Radio Four, and open my laptop, and whoosh. Like having a shower under Niagara Falls. Unmitigated disaster. We're all doomed. All those who lead us are incompetent. Only the location and the depth varies.

We have a small cohort of press, politicians and various species of papparazzi for whom deceit, dissembling, and disinformation has become so much of an art form it seems to have become unconscious for them. Like a bad diet.

It's time to apply the self respect filter and embrace reality. Whilst do do seem to have a remarkable crop of politicians many of whom display compound ineptitude and l…