When hosting the Golden Globes in 2020, Ricky Gervais delivered a delicious demolition of Hollywood’s political pretensions, telling his A-list audience: ‘if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech. You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. So, if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent, and your God, and fuck off’. Sadly, it seems the message didn’t sink in.

Awards season is upon us once again, meaning saturated coverage of Tinseltown. The self-congratulatory tone of it all is bad enough, but somehow these overpaid luvvies can’t resist using award ceremonies as a chance to lecture us mere mortals.

At last night’s Grammy awards, the singer Billie Eilish, after winning Song of the Year, bleated ‘as grateful as I feel, I honestly don’t feel like I need to say anything but that no one is illegal on stolen land’

At last night’s Grammy awards, the singer Billie Eilish, after winning Song of the Year, bleated ‘as grateful as I........

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