"The name's Barlow, Ken Barlow." From Bond villains to Coronation Street characters, everyone reads The Guardian.
There's a scene in Casino Royale when Bond and his girl Vesper Lynd arrive in Venice and the evil assassin Gettler is spotted on the canalside. You can tell he is evil because one of his spectacle glasses is dark and the other clear.
But hang on, he appears to be wandering by the fish market carrying a copy of The Guardian. Is he a ruthless murderer with a liberal streak? Or maybe he enjoys Nancy Banks-Smith?
Anyway who can blame him for enjoying the Guardian and I'm sure if he did not soon after have a nail shot through his eye by 007 then bosses here would be offering a more formal welcome to the family.
So where else can the Guardian be spotted on film and TV?
There was that stinker of a film Killing Me Softly with Joseph Fiennes and Heather Graham in which the latter pretended to be a writer for the paper.
And of course Ken Barlow in Coronation Street is a reader, but you expect and demand that of the most intelligent man in Weatherfield.
More sightings please.
