Mike's Minute: Coldplay kiss cam - it's none of our business

In a way it’s the sort of response you would have expected from Liam Gallagher. 

He's back on stage, and seemingly lapping it up, and asked about the love birds in the audience. 

He said "don't worry, we ain’t got any of that Coldplay snidey f***ing camera shit. Doesn’t matter to us who you are mingling with - or tingly with, fingingly with.” 

“None of our f***ing business". 

My gut says the majority of the audience, indeed the world, are with Liam, not Chris. 

This has been the biggest story in the world for two weeks now. It has crossed barriers, continents, and age groups in a way few stories do. 

It's that rare mix of mirth, horror, and carnage. 

Yes, it's funny. Yes, you can decipher the reaction, and how they reacted, and why they reacted, and how dumb the reaction might have been. 

But then in real life, jobs are lost, families and friends and relationships were upended. It's a level of personal upheaval we don’t, and won't, know about. 

There's a very real question, I would have thought, around morals and business. The business was very quick to publicly talk about standards. 

Now he might, as CEO, have had a clause in his contract about public activity or behaviour. But business and morals are a fantastically complicated area I would have steered well clear of. 

What about legal action? They have to sue. 

Yes, tickets and venues have warnings about CCTV and filming, but this wasn’t about crime or publicity. It went a mile beyond that. It blew up lives and it destroyed things. 

What about the mental consequences? How do two unknowns handle global fame, opprobrium, celebrity attention and notoriety all at once? 

Yes, it's easy to say, "well they shouldn’t have been there, should they?". What if they are in love, about to be married and starting afresh? As opposed to say, him being a shagger and this was his third fling this year. 

Lives are complicated and we have little, if any, business passing judgement. 

Or as Liam would say - it's none of our f***ing business. 

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