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  • What Dapper Laughs didn't realise: on TV he was playing by new rules

    TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 15th November 2014

    Probably the easiest way to turn yourself into an online pariah or to bait hate-clickers right now is to say you feel sorry for Dapper Laughs, so it's a good job I don't. Fifteen minutes of fame is as much as his act merited. But I did get the sense, watching him being skewered by Emily Maitliss on Newsnight this week, that he hadn't quite appreciated that there's a difference between being an internet star and a TV personality, and that the two arenas have different rules.

  • PaxBeard changes everything

    TV News | Ed Williamson | 13th August 2013

    "Will ... will it ever be the same?" the woman asked, her voice almost a whisper.

    "Never," the man replied. "It will never be the same. All that once was is gone. And what will be ..." He stopped to collect himself. "What will be ... no man can say."

    And with that they held each other tightly, the wind outside a howling portent, and waited for day again.