The Highs and the Lows

There’s a nice opinion piece by Simon Jenkins in today’s Guardian. He asks how it is possible that the same institution – the BBC – can simultaneously release work that is superior and perfect in every way (Bleak House), and work that can best be likened to a great steaming pile of horse ordure (Rome). It’s a question that has been occurring to me also with depressing frequency of late.

 

Oh, and last night I watched the final episode (in this series, at least) of Spooks. I haven’t been watching it, but how could I pass up on a plot that suggested that Princess Diana was in fact murdered by British security forces, as tinfoil hat-wearers have suspected all along. It was a wonderful MacGuffin, and a cracking good episode. And I don’t think that I’ve seen a better cliffhanger of an ending since the end of the first series of House of Cards.