Isn't it beautiful to see how enlightenment comes to us all, eventually? The Sun's TV critic Ally Ross begins his review in today's paper with the quite reasonable statement, "Great Britain. It's got an interesting approach to mental illness." Which indeed it does. And certainly the show he's reviewing - Kerry Katona's reality TV show, Crazy in Love, you know, the one for which she and her husband posed in straitjackets - would seem to bear this out.
It is positively inspiring to read this statement in a paper that just four years ago headlined their front page story about Frank Bruno being admitted to a psychiatric hospital, "Bonkers Bruno Locked Up." Isn't it touching to see how much progress the paper has made into the modern age under Rebecca Wade's aegis? Yes, except if you turn six pages back.
And here we have a story about Paul Gascoigne who, like Bruno, has been admitted to hospital. And just to prove how sensitive The Sun has become, the word "bonkers" isn't anywhere in sight. Instead, just a lovely picture of a smiling Gascoigne with the headline "I'm Mad." Oh, and lots of salacious details about Gascoigne's behaviour over a double page spread from "a source."
And do we have time to mention Ally Ross' main complaint about the Brits? That it was "frontloaded with fat lasses - Adele, Beth Ditto, Kelly Osbourne, Chris Moyles [see what he did there? Ha!] - who killed the mood." The time, perhaps, but not the patience.
