![]() Kanye West's kids lead Sunday Service wearing creepy Handmaid's Tale-style white robes with covered faces. This is a book that engages at every level - and so I’ll take ‘brainbox’ perhaps, Ms Maitlis, but not ‘airhead’. all this leads the reader towards a deeper understanding of an essential part of our culture: current affairs. ![]() The searing honesty that informs Maitlis on this, as well as on migrants in Budapest, her compassion for those who present an unsympathetic face to the world, the intelligence that informs the most succinct paragraph on Brexit I have ever read. She is filmed (a smartphone, it must be) while doing a radio interview with Emma Barnett, gives away too much - and hates being caught looking scruffy without her make-up. ![]() Maitlis sometimes gets caught out by her own profession. AIRHEAD by Emily Maitlis (Michael Joseph £18.99, 352 pp)įew things can be predicted: ‘I’m writing this book to try to dispel the myth that everything that happens in television is planned’ - and that an element of ‘chance’ is ‘the essence of. ![]()
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