Thanks to Good Experiencefor this. They don’t let you lock your bike outside the Royal Society of Arts even though they claim to be big into greenery. All is forgiven though, since they hosted marvellous debate on why we’re obsessed with actors (it being the season when we watch actors give each other awards). Michael Bywater, he of infantilisation fame was on form. The theory? We’re fascinated because we’re biologically hardwired for (among other things) spotting fakes and gossiping. Because we’re so acute at spotting fakery, we’re fascinated by those who pretend to be other people and do it very well. And because we’re hard-wired for gossip (important survvival skill in early human era), but have no-one in common any more, we’re reduced to gossiping about the globally talentless, all the while thinking ‘hang on, I could do that.’