I'm tempted to say something about stock jokes against UKIP and the Daily Mail for BBC studio audiences, but it's probably a wider matter, where succesful entertainers have long felt they have a responsibility or mission to use their reach for something they believe to be right. Frank Sinatra was very supportive of FDR, for example.
I don't think it's that complex. The thing you have to remember about performers is that they do what they do because they crave acceptance and approval. This means they will always be drawn to the accepted wisdom of whatever milieu they inhabit and will adopt the politics that they think will get them applause.
No, you had a couple of generations that lost all credibility, having brought the world to its knees in great big wars and such to the point that their descendents roundly rejected both them and everything they stood for. Not that they had any better ideas or anything, simply that so long as it was new and different, it must be good and if it was old and traditional and their parents did it, it must be bad.
This phenomenon is particularly stark on the continent (oddly enough, I suppose) where you have teenage Germans, for example, bemoaning the fact that, on their worldly travels, they are often subjected to Nazi jibes, even though that whole sorry business had obviously nothing to do with them. You can readily understand the resentment felt towards their forefathers that way.
Why this curiosity should be so prevalent among urban trendies in London and New York remains something of a mystery. But then, cities are always about the exotic, aren't they.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."