British Television Presenter

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    “Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.
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    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    “Photographs may be more memorable than moving images because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Television is a stream of underselected images, each of which cancels its predecessor. Each still photograph is a privileged moment, turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.”
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