Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Is Bono the new Kathy Kirby?

Simon Hoggart's Commons sketch in the Guardian today is good on the absurdities of today's celebrity politics. Writing about the heyday of anti-nuclear protest in the early 1960s, he asks:
Can you imagine the CND folk saying: "I think we can get Billy Fury and Kathy Kirby for the Trafalgar Square gig! And maybe we can bring Vince Eager back from panto in Ipswich!"
A pedant writes: Shouldn't there be a question mark in there somewhere?

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