Low life: Staying in Channel 4’s hotel

In the last Channel 4 series of The Hotel, we saw Mark Jenkins, ex-owner of the Grosvenor hotel in Torquay, campaigning to attract more ‘posh people’ to his failing Victorian hotel. He was apprehensive, though, that he might not know how to handle any posh people that were seduced by this and did come. Posh people, he opined, ‘can be a nightmare because they want things done properly. The good thing about poor people is that they are just happy to be on holiday. Mind you,’ he added, ‘some poor people can be quite demanding, so you can’t win.’ It was possibly owing to statements such as this that Mr Jenkins was dubbed the ‘real life Basil Fawlty’. Mr Jenkins also smoked and was not ashamed of it.

One watches television news these days not to know what’s happening in the world, but to goggle in disbelief at both the subtlety and the insulting lack of subtlety of the leftist propaganda being pushed out.