Heroes

Chums know what I think about the telly, or soma, as a real writer and thinker presaged it. But just occasionally something on that huge box in the corner catches your attention, will-ye, nill-ye, and tonight it was John and Pauline Prescott and Brian Sewell. Brian Sewell is outrageous, but only because telly has made him so, and he loves the limelight, and I bet he's never given a yobbo a good thump in his life, but before telly made him a class-hate figure he was a very sound art critic, and that is what he still is.

Telly loves people who are outrageous, and it turns them into entertainers and celebs, and I do wish sometimes that people who are really interesting would do a Prescott or a Cantona when telly people grope them up, and smack them one in the gob. Cantona did it to a yobbo, and John Prescott did, too, and that is why they are on my hypothetical Christmas card list, because we desperately need people who do daft, wrong things for the very best of reasons - most important of which is defeating yobbism. It is wonderfully un-PC, and what better could anyone say than that?