Stewart Lee

Yeah.

Even Andrew Neil, who has had some difficulty understanding many aspects of where the media and culture and news is going, has seen through it.

Yeah, well, he was a platter, so he was used to legitimise it.

So plurality of views means contradicting yourself.

Yeah.

Well, great.

Well, we can all be doing that.

That's it.

You do kind of get Laura Koonsberg making a funny face sometimes that suggests that politics lead in a particular direction.

During Brexit, those of us that opposed it were often accused of being part of a liberal Islington consensus by people that actually lived in Islington.

in streets which would be beyond the financial reach of even Britain's most consistently critically acclaimed stand-up comedian.

So it's kind of a weird thing where you kind of... It's become this mythical area, hasn't it?

It's like an Islington of the mind, you know, which is sort of stands for all these things that it's really... Walk zero.

It's the Greenwich.

Yeah, the Greenwich meantime of wokeness.

Of wokeness, yeah.

But I'll tell you what did hit home in the second episode of that BBC documentary about Brexit, which I thought was really good because it...

it didn't have commentary, it just presents these contrasting clips, was when Bob Geldof, who lives in Notting Hill Gate, admittedly, but he would be part of the Islington of the mind, when he was at sea on the Thames arguing with ordinary fishermen from the east coast of England, that played badly.

You know, that boat was Islington on the Thames.

It was the mythical Islington on the Thames, yeah.