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)
