Maitlis, Balance and Substack. Why are we switching off the news?

There was a time and it is difficult to remember how long ago it was now,  when I used to tell people that I was a journalist, they would say “Wow that must be interesting!” . They would ask me what I wrote about and where and how this became my career.

It is really not like that anymore. The most common reaction I get is “Really? I don’t watch the news …