I worry that British people will eventually be invited to kill each other for cheap food at Wembley Stadium. The crowd might wave Sainsbury’s “Basics” biscuits. I do not know; but I am fairly certain that it will happen. Perhaps the loser will be made into pizza in a fast-food auto-da-fé.
That day came closer with the broadcast of BBC2’s Britain’s Hardest Workers: Inside the Low-Wage Economy at the end of last month. It was a big title for a show that should have been euthanised by page 2 of the proposal. It aired on sequential nights, which suggests that the BBC either thought it was “event TV”, or had enough self-awareness to get rid of it in August, before people noticed that it was the worst show
in the world.
Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month
Content from our partners
