Pat Kenny
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first heard May 2025
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So on the one hand, you've got a Labour Party saying, you know, we've got to make Brexit work.
And then you'll have people like Nigel Farage, who led the charge into Brexit, saying, well, you didn't do it properly.
If you'd only done Brexit fully, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in.
It's all your fault.
Do you think that his image has become a little bit tarnished by the revelations about his very dodgy finances?
To what extent do you think that the, I suppose, the public generally has become a bit politically illiterate because maybe they don't read in their newspapers any of the long articles anymore.
They're looking at those little tidbits on TikTok to inform them.
And that is not necessarily a comprehensive political education.
Now, you are a novelist and also a satirist, and among your influences, Flann O'Brien at Swim Two Birds.
You also quote Joseph Heller, the author of Catch-22, famously among your influences.
Is it possible in the age we now live in with Trump in the White House and Farage, I suppose, knocking at the door of number 10, is it possible to satirize the ridiculous now?
Now, the question of the absurd, I mean, that's where satire tends to go.
You take a reality and I suppose exaggerated and twisted somewhat.
But the reality of politics is sometimes so absurd that it might be beyond satire.
Now, the premiership of Liz Truss, mercifully brief, but the obvious sense of delusion that she has about herself is something that is inherently comedic.
The notion of the little Englander, is that still an aspiration?
Is it still alive and well?
Is there a sense that maybe the education system is letting people down and that a lot of the things that happen in Britain today are as a direct result of its colonial history?
I mean, the immigration into the island of Britain occurred in the, if you like, the dying days of colonialism, right?
People made their home.
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