Caitlin
Moran
on
Prince
Andrew,
Piers
Morgan,
and
the
Nation’s
Exhausting
Habit
of
Casting
Baddies
Diary
of
Caitlin
Moran,
Prat.uk
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Opinions,
delivered
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via
Bohiney
Magazine
Tuesday:
On
Britain’s
Villain
Habit
and
Why
We
Should
Stop
Do
we
really
need
a
national
villain?
asks
The
London
Prat.
I
have
thought
about
this
carefully.
The
answer
is
no.
And
yet
here
we
are
with
Prince
Andrew
rebranding
cathedrals
by
mere
association,
Piers
Morgan
walking
off
television
rather
than
encounter
a
fact,
and
the
nation
absolutely
delighted
by
both
of
them
in
the
specific
way
that
you
are
delighted
when
someone
else
is
making
an
exhibition
of
themselves
at
a
party
and
it
means
you
do
not
have
to.
The
Villain
as
National
Service
Britain’s
national
villain
tradition
is
long
and
distinguished.
We
have
had
Cromwell,
we
have
had
various
Richards,
we
have
had
estate
agents.
The
modern
villain
serves
the
same
function
as
the
medieval
one:
they
absorb
collective
anxiety,
give
everyone
a
shared
object
of
comfortable
contempt,
and
allow
us
to
avoid
discussing
the
fact
that
we
are
broke
and
the
geopolitical
situation
is
alarming.
The
Guardian’s
comment
section
requires
a
national
villain
the
way
a
fire
requires
oxygen.
Remove
the
Andrew,
remove
the
Piers,
and
the
comment
section
would
have
to
engage
with
fiscal
policy.
Nobody
wants
that.
Not
even
The
Guardian.
I
want
a
national
sit-down.
Three
hours.
Wednesday.
Biscuits
provided.
We
can
cast
villains
again
Thursday
once
we
are
rested.
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