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    Burnt out by the present, I’m self-soothing with Bake Off and old novels | Emma Brockes

    After a year of news reported in screaming, neon colour, I crave the muted tones of the not-so-distant past
    by Emma Brockes Dec 03, 2020 3 minutes
    ‘All I want, now, is to be reminded that our most intense pleasures hit at the level of a cake coming out of the oven, or the warmth of Noel Fielding gently teasing a contestant.’ Photograph: Mark Bourdillon/CHANNEL 4

    For a long time in the spring, I found I couldn’t read. My concentration was shot from too much scrolling, and I was thoroughly hooked on the adrenalin of bad news. The consolations of fiction seemed, by comparison, very weak and uninviting. Besides which, any spare time – and there was no spare time, during those first weeks and months after the schools chucked out – was, I knew, supposed to be spent on rigorous plans

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