What a miserable old bugger Jamie Oliver has become. All he said here about British culture should be put in context of him publicising his new show for French TV but I would be more inclined to listen to his rantings if he made half an effort to speak properly. The same TV and celebrity obsessed British culture which Oliver lambasts is the one which has made him worth £25m. His parents are frequently interviewed on TV and speak with fairly regular rural Essex accents, they seem down-to-earth, unaffected people and yet their son has built his whole image around being a barrow boy.
There will be much in future articles about what is wrong with Britain; you would have to have your head stuck in a Kalahari-sized bucket of sand to think things are great here. I just feel that Jamie is trying to have it both ways and should remember that the culture which he purports to despise has put his faux-persona on a pedestal and made him a very very rich man.
