CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Grayson sees England distorted ... trends now
Grayson Perry's Full English
Rating: *
The Madame Blanc Mysteries
Rating: ****
The nonsense that wibbles through the brain of a self-righteous Leftie celeb is hard to fathom. Artist Grayson Perry looked at archive footage of a Boy Scouts parade and likened it to the Hitler Youth.
What is the twerp on about? I was a Scout, aeons ago, and our Thursday teatime meetings consisted mostly of knots, woggles and raucous gin-gan-gooly. We didn't annexe the Sudetenland once.
But Perry is so programmed to see racism staining Britain's past that he conjures it out of nothing. His remark was particularly offensive when you remember that those 1930s lads, or their brothers and dads, might well have fought and died to defeat Hitler.
That wasn't an isolated comment, as he toured the southern counties in a white van (oh, how self-consciously ironic) in Grayson Perry's Full English (Ch4).
Artist Grayson Perry 'is so programmed to see racism staining Britain's past that he conjures it out of nothing'
Ruper Grint on This Morning (ITV1)
Actor Rupert Grint announced on This Morning (ITV1) that he'd love to play Ron Weasley again. Yet he has previously distanced himself from Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling, describing her as an embarrassing 'auntie'. Why doesn't he just admit he owes his whole career to her?
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Joining a group of Morris dancers and folklore fans on an 'organised trespass' across a country estate, he sneered at the 'jolly middle-class japes from an overwhelmingly white crowd'.
And, sitting down to afternoon tea in the garden of a posh hotel, he warned his driver, 'We're supping on colonialism. There's a hell of a lot in a cup of tea, a couple of sandwiches and a bit of cake.'
