Vashta, they're great for distracting simple, feeble-minded people from the crap that's going on, like the selling-off of our NHS in a seedy trade-deal with the US, or the nightmare of Brexit currently being mis-managed by a bunch of clueless incompetents.

Wasn't it Juvenal who made the jibe about 'Bread and the Circus'? Still working, 2,000 years later.