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I am flattered and terrified that the Lords of the Aether appear to be reading my blog. How else to explain the immediate synchronicity, but to assume the intervention of those of the psychic realm? I’d no sooner posted a little piece on Simon Cowell’s phone-in democracy than here he was being interviewed by Newsnight’s favorite dominatrix Kirsty Wark. He actually intends to make a show in which “big issues” are discussed and voted on by the X Factor demographic. Can you imagine? In the last UK election 24 million people voted. In the last X Factor 20 million people voted. Which means he now has the ability to clone the entire parliamentary process and produce virtually instant referenda. The gothic edifice of representative democracy is technologically obsolete. In the days of the horse and carriage we had to have representatives because there was no other way to approximate the so called voice of the people. Now Simon can just ask the people and they can phone in the vote. Immigration, the War for Oil, the European Magisterium, The Underclass, The Overclass…sorted in no time. Go Simon.