There are some things in life that seem so far beyond parody – Sarah Palin’s continued credibility, for example, or Michael Winner’s Twitter feed – that the sceptic in me keeps waiting for the moment when we all get made to look like fools for taking them seriously. But the longer these things keep going, the more we have to face up to the unsettling probability that actually, they’re not a mock-up at all. This is what people really think. Not for a laugh, not just to get attention, but because that’s just how they are.
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