Pass me the remote

Less than thrilling fare on today’s This Morning programme (ITV), with a soft-voiced woman keen to persuade viewers that we each have a ‘guardian angel’. On first hearing, it may seem harmless enough, but consider this perfectly credible scenario. A member of your family wonders whether he, or she, should take a short-cut home. The way before them is dark and seems unsafe, but they’ve been persuaded that some mystical presence is protecting them. And so they venture where others would not; and are never seen alive again. Perhaps someone can tell me the difference between a peddler of such superstition and a wide-boy, who flogs cars with dodgy brakes. I’d call it junk TV, if only it weren’t more dangerous than that.