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Nish Kumar on the BBC, 'cancel culture', rehabilitating monsters, comedy, and racism

The Owen Jones Podcast

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Sata i meng: I think it's kind of been overtaken by events, because it's a kind of whackiness and absurdity of the last few years. The film really holds up brilliantly as a satire of the lead up to the war in a ruck. And so you can just watch it as a work play, sick comedthink that it's so well written and so well executed. It was about a group of people who were so consumed by not making a mistake that they actually ended up not doing anything. Whereas now the idea of politics seems to be to make mistakes almost deliberately.

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