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.
SOURCE:
https://bohiney.com
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