ITV’s breakfast show epitomises – and fosters – the UK’s culture wars. To see for himself, Tim Adams wakes to Piers Morgan for a month There were a few days in mid-December when it looked like the nation might have won some respite from its daily diet of shouty culture wars. But then, on 17 December, just days after Boris Johnson’s election victory, Piers Morgan signed his new contract with Good Morning Britain , and the most enthusiastic cheerleader of national disharmony was granted two more lucrative years behind his breakfast desk. Morgan insisted that this would be his last term of office, and that he will “sail off into the sunset” in 2022. His original tabloid mentor, Kelvin MacKenzie , argued a year ago that Morgan would not be happy until he “absolutely owns breakfast” and “is making £10m a year”. I don’t imagine he is quite there yet. Continue reading...