What McSweeney’s stolen phone says about modern Britain
From our UK edition
If there were ever an event to describe our present moment, it would surely be the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s iPhone. The government device was snatched from his hand no more than a mile from the Houses of Parliament last October, though the incident has only recently come to light. Putting aside, for a moment, any controversy over the probable (and from McSweeney’s perspective potentially rather fortunate) loss of important messages to and from his disgraced mentor Peter Mandelson, the episode presents some symptoms typical of modern life. On McSweeney's part there is the seeming resignation to having one's phone ripped from your grasp, now an accepted inconvenience like bad traffic on a bank holiday.
