EXTRA: Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell - satire and the death of political centrism

Suite (212)

Ever since September 2015, when the allegation emerged that the Prime Minister, David Cameron, had performed a sex act on a dead pig as a student, British politics has entered a strange new reality, in which satire has endlessly been pronounced dead. In this edition of Suite (212) Extra, Juliet talks to Huw Lemmey about how to make fun of the age of austerity and absurdism, polarisation and pigfucking, focusing on Huw's new book, Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell. SELECTED REFERENCES WORKS BY HUW LEMMEY Bad Gays (podcast) - https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/yw89yb/bad-gays-podcast-interview Chubz: The Demonisation of My Working Arse (2014) - https://rhizome.org/editorial/2014/nov/20/chubz-demonization-my-working-arse-interview-huw-l Confirmed Pigfucker (2016) - https://viletrollbooks.bigcartel.com/product/confirmed-pigfucker-political-poems-by-spitzenprodukte Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell (2019) - http://montezpress.com/catalogue/books/red-tory-my-corbyn-chemsex-hell Theodor W. Adorno MICHAEL ASHCROFT, Call Me Dave (2015) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggate Marcus Brigstocke Charlie Brooker James Butler - https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/4w7kxg/james-butler-huw-lemmy-chubz-322 Dawn Foster - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/23/damage-cuts-and-sanctions-oxfam-wales-austerity Bob Geldof - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/15/nigel-farage-bob-geldof-rival-eu-referendum-thames-flotillas Have I Got News For You (TV series, 1990-present) Simon Hedges - https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/53n9v8/the-new-wave-of-satire-for-our-morbid-political-landscape OWEN JONES, Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class (2011) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/08/chavs-demonization-owen-jones-review JOE KENNEDY, Authentocrats (2018) - https://everydayanalysis.org/2019/04/15/to-save-multicultural-liberalism-build-the-wall-on-joe-kennedys-authentocrats/ London (dir. Patrick Keiller, 1994) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v84byeueCBI THOMAS MANN, Death in Venice (1912) Al Murray, the Pub Landlord - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/its-not-just-nigel-farage-al-murray-the-pub-landlord-loses-south-thanet-bid-despite-patriotic-10235430.html Herbert Muschamp - http://justinmcguirk.com/hearts-city-herbert-muschamp The Now Show (radio series, 1998-present) Streatham Rovers FC - https://twitter.com/streathamrovers?lang=en The Thick of It (TV series, 2006-12) - https://www.blubrry.com/wdtatw/42236688/episode-84-politics-stayed-the-same-its-us-that-changed Tim Peaks: Farron Walk with Me (radio play, 2018) - https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast/tim-peaks-farron-walk-with-me-a-reel-politik-original-radio-play Trashfuture (podcast) - https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/ The West Wing (TV series, 1999-2006)