I’m not saying everything was better in the good old days – but a lot of things really don’t need the latest bells and whistles

I was once trying to get a television idea commissioned about a subject or issue that I thought was important. So important that I can no longer remember what it was. Whatever it was, the commissioner stayed alert for a minute or two but soon clouded over and demanded: “What is it you’re trying to say?”

“Say? I’m just saying it’s really interesting.”

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster, writer and Guardian columnist

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