What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel cover image

What The F*** Is Going On? with James O'Brien

What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel

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The Importance of Honesty

A hatred can help you rationalize the world, make sense of the world. And people cling to it. People derive identity from it. They derive confidence from it. When it's authentic, it can be sympathetic, as you say, because they mean it. So with that example, it would be 2000 years of Judeo-Christian doctrine. It's not exactly a miracle that someone's ended up betting their house on it or being true. You see the Fox News stuff this week, last week, where it turns out, I mean, surprise, surprise, they knew it was bollocks. The idiots who believe it are a million times worse for me than the idiots who believe

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