2.2. Satire: Woke Politics and Political Tribalism

In episode 1 of season 2, anonymous Twitter account DM Reporter commented that you can’t be a satirist if you write for the Daily Mail. In this episode Adam and Jo talk to Andrew Doyle about that argument, and about Andrew’s own satirical Twitter account, “Titania McGrath.” Who are his targets, and how does he hope to change their minds? Is there any hope for the future? And exactly what was wrong with Frankie Boyle’s “joke” about Katie Price and her son?

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In this episode Adam, Jo, and Andrew talk about:

  • Aaron Banks
  • Alexander Pope
  • Boris Johnson
  • Codes of Conduct
  • Countryfile
  • Cultural Appropriation
  • Daily Express
  • Daily Mail/ Scottish Daily Mail 
  • DM Reporter
  • Dear Joan and Jericha
  • The Eighteenth Century
  • Feminism
  • Frank Skinner
  • Frankie Boyle
  • Georges I, II, III, and IV
  • Gender Pay Gap
  • Grammarly
  • Greta Thunberg
  • The Hanoverian Period
  • Horrible Histories
  • Identity Politics
  • Impact Agenda
  • It’s A Wonderful Life
  • Jonathan Pie
  • Jordan (Katie Price)
  • Joseph Addison
  • Just Eat
  • Laurie Penny
  • Mail on Sunday
  • Mail Online
  • Martin Luther King
  • My Dad Wrote A Porno
  • No-Platforming
  • The One Show
  • Owen Jones 
  • Pepsi
  • Podcast Sponsorship
  • Political Tribalism
  • Richard Steele
  • Rosamund Irwin
  • Safe Spaces
  • The Scourge
  • Shropshire Farm Foods
  • Snowflakes
  • Sodexxo 
  • Square Space
  • Titania McGrath
  • Tories
  • Twitter
  • Virginia Blackburn
  • W.H. Auden
  • Whigs and Whig Ministries
  • Woke (Andrew Doyle writing as Titania McGrath)
  • Wokeness and Woke People
  • World War II (bomb shelters and dogfights)
  • Zip Recruiter