I Will Not Stand For This Paul Morley Erasure

If you’re making a documentary on the strange end of the twentieth century in Britain, opening with a clip of Jimmy Savile taking a group of children to meet Margaret Thatcher is not exactly subtle. It’s been too long, Mr. Curtis.

(current thoughts on having seen the first episode of Shifty: feels like an expansion of The League of Gentlemen from Pandora’s Box and The Attic from The Living Dead, with some of the footage being directly lifted from those episodes. In fact, at one point, Curtis is lazy enough that he takes the clip of Not The Nine O’Clock News’s ‘Unemployment Figures’ sketch directly from Pandora’s Box, as it still has ‘1980’ in Futura burnt into the clip, instead of going back to the original footage¹. Having said all that, the ‘new’ clips are great, and to be honest, I’d be happy if he just dropped the narrative text completely at this point)

This week, we have been mostly learning how to play with sand and staring in awe at watching all our systems go down due to a global Google Cloud Platform failure…