Stewart Lee

I love Marvel Comics in the 70s.

And they were written by working class Jewish autodidact anti-fascists and LSD taking hippie dropouts.

And their agenda was very progressive.

And it's really weird to think now that they're owned by those massive corporations that play lip service to Trump.

I don't know, I think.

But either way, if the guys that wrote Marvel comics in the 70s were writing them now, Spider-Man would be in Queens fighting the ICE agents to protect the immigrant community.

Yeah.

And Captain America would have hung up his shield like he did when Nixon was in and gone undercover.

That's what would be happening if those people were writing them now, and they daren't do that.

But that it doesn't reflect how people really are, right?

The idea that there's a liberal establishment, it may have been true in some areas of society, but if we look at the whole of, say, Britain today, the majority of the press is owned by billionaires with offshore accounts who have a particular interest from maintaining a right-leaning status quo.

Television stations, why is GB News even on?

If Ofcom was doing its job, it wouldn't be on and it wouldn't have...

Farage being allowed to present a programme on it.

And the social media, which is where the majority of people are getting their ideas from, is skewed to the right and owned by people like Elon Musk.

So the idea that there's... Liberal values and liberal establishment are in massive retreat.

And if you take the States as the bellwether, as the canary in the mine, liberal arts establishments are being closed down, universities are being...

hassled about what they can and can't teach with the threat of the withdrawal of funding.

For them, freedom of speech is not being fact-checked.

Now, a broadcaster has to be, you know, the BBC has to be fact-checked.