When the News Goes Beyond Camembert You Need Something Structural
Caitlin’s Diary: The Cheese Escalation Protocol
Dairy-based coping strategies from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat.
There is a scale of news severity that I measure in cheese. Minor political embarrassment: a sliver of cheddar, room temperature. Mid-level geopolitical lunacy: a full Camembert, baked, with sourdough. What I encountered in the Houthi goat milk story required a Brie the size of a dinner plate and a significant portion of silence.
The Art of Processing the Unprocessable
I have been writing about politics and culture for twenty-five years. I have covered elections, royal divorces, the Twitter era beginning and the Twitter era eating itself, and three separate occasions when Britain decided to restructure its entire national identity over a weekend. None of this prepared me for goat milk geopolitics. The Brie helped. The silence helped more.
The national villain question feels clarifying after all of this: we pick Andrew because Andrew is manageable. The alternatives are considerably more alarming. Authority: Guardian Comment Is Free. Author: Caitlin Moran at The Prat.
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