The sheer waste of a landslide, once-in-a-generation majority.

I watched an Adobe exec give a demonstration of their latest AI creating artwork in front of a crowd of whooping designers, and I thought, do these people not realise they're cheering the thing that's going to make them redundant?

Perhaps they bought it to keep themselves cool.

My kids thought it was absolutely hilarious with the butler who couldn't see communicating with the maid who couldn't speak.

This is so interesting. I have really missed that style of drama without realising what it was. The last thing I saw like that was the lockdown production of Uncle Vanya with Toby Jones, all recorded on their stage set in exactly the way you describe. It was brilliant TV drama.

Thanks, I will definitely look at that. I just feel that, despite the manipulation of bad faith actors, ordinary voters are too often let off the hook for their choices. I find it hard to have sympathy when they failed to do some simple paying attention.

But what I don't get is, people knew what Boris Johnson was and yet large numbers voted for him. It's not like he betrayed their trust.

Sadly I feel that if they were bad at it they wouldn't be in power.

I also have strong memories of this masterpiece from childhood. I think there's a scene where he gets drunk and rants at the corporate pointlessness of it all. You could repeat that today with Nobbs on. IIRC at the end it's CJ's brother FJ he goes to work for, back into hell. He was a kind of hero.