Goodnight, John-boy: Chapter 32
He settled down on his sofa and watched as Quentin laid into some idiot, the editor of a stupid comic, because it was too violent. Quite right, too. Kids needed protecting from that kind of filth.
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KEEN WAS finally getting around to watching Tomorrow’s Britain, his last show in the current series. He’d set the timer on the Betamax and he thought he’d got it right this time, but, somehow, he’d still got it wrong; it included the show before his own: Newshound. He was just going to just fast forward through it and go straight to Tomorrow’s Britain. But then he remembered someone telling him that this edition of Newshound was quite funny. Quentin Cowley gets into a punch-up with one of his interviewees. Keen never liked Quentin very much, even though they’d done a few lines of coke together. So it would be amusing to see him being humiliated.
He settled down on his sofa and watched as Quentin laid into some idiot, the editor of a stupid comic, because it was too violent. Quite right, too. Kids needed protecting from that kind of filth. It should be banned. He still found Newshound tedious, though, because of the way Quentin insisted on talking, like his audience was brain dead or something.
Quentin was saying, ‘But you’re setting a bad example, Dave, so children will stop trusting figures of authority.’
Fab found himself nodding in agreement. Quentin was absolutely right. Children needed to trust people in authority.
Then he mentioned some Satanic war story. A Nazi calling on Satan to help him? Disgraceful. That should definitely not be allowed.
And frightening kids with a story about nuclear war. Just who was this editor? This irresponsible idiot?
Then the irresponsible idiot put a liquorice pipe in his mouth as he answered more of Quentin’s questions.
A liquorice pipe.
Fab freeze-framed it. And gave a delighted double thumbs-up to himself. That beatnik Peat was right, after all.
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