So the Mercury Music Prize this year has been won by a bunch of middle-class shoegazers trying desperately to shake off their roots as a novelty band. I love this country, where an awards ceremony created as corporate
PR can be viewed as somehow important and have live coverage on BBC4, home of mid-to-highbrow. They got the winners they deserved anyhoo, a bunch of simpering home counties Timothies who sniggered and guffawed their way through uni and think erudite is something the tradesman uses on the walls.