Is nothing free from the tarnish of the mindless, insipid fakery of Strictly Come Dancing and it's contemporaries? Why, Beeb? Why do you insist on putting it on the morning news? There must be countless millions of other things going on in the world that are far more important.

Giles Coren vents his spleen on society dumbing down .

And now for the less happy rantage: ( English people of my generation and younger, we're all screwed. )