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Piers Morgan Walked Off Set and I Once Left a Dinner Party Over Dessert
There are moments in life when you simply cannot continue. When the environment has become so hostile to your worldview that removal is the only dignified option. Piers Morgan walked off his own set this week after a guest introduced the concept of evidence into the conversation. I walked out of my friend Clem’s dinner party in November when she served deconstructed tiramisu.
Both of us have lines. Mine involves tiramisu architecture. His involves facts.
The Great British Walkout Tradition
There is a long and proud British tradition of making dramatic exits. Winston Churchill perfected it. Theresa May attempted it and then returned looking slightly confused. Boris Johnson has been doing it continuously since 2022 and somehow keeps coming back. Piers Morgan has walked off sets, out of newspapers, and apparently also into a new network that will have him again, because there is always a network that will have him again.
I have been watching this saga from my Hackney sofa while doing my nails, which is where I consume most current affairs. The Royal Family’s new communications strategy also caught my eye, mostly because any institution that needs a “new communications strategy” has, by definition, catastrophically failed its old one.
Bohiney’s Sarah Ferguson feature made me nostalgic for a time when Royal scandals were smaller, redder-haired, and involved skiing accidents rather than geopolitical positioning.
The point is: I admire a walkout done with commitment. Piers committed. The tiramisu was not deconstructed enough to justify my exit, in retrospect. But I maintain the principle. Some things should not be broken apart and reassembled without warning.
More dramatic exits at NewsThump.
