Episode 56 - A Shit-Eating Unanswerability (ft. Juliet Jacques & Huw Lemmey) by Reel Politik

Writers Juliet Jacques and Huw Lemmey are back in the saddle to conclude our lengthy discussion of Juliet's time in the mainstream liberal press and the structural barriers that make it a difficult medium through which to convey left-wing ideas. We read from two superb pieces by Joe Kennedy (see bottom of description for links), discuss the dynamics and power relations between public figures and their "trolls", how the social media wars of the early 2010s dovetailed into those of the Corbyn era, and which prominent nerd's stapler narrowly avoided a jelly-related fate.

Read Joe Kennedy's piece on The Stuplime Object of Ideology on newsocialist.org.uk: https://newsocialist.org.uk/the-stuplime-object-of-ideology/ and his piece on Non-Linear Borefare here: http://adrawingsympathy.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/non-linear-borefare.html

Buy Juliet's autobiographical work, Trans: A Memoir, here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2158-trans and listen to her Resonance FM radio show on Souncloud @Suite-212

And buy Huw's seminally titled novel, Chubz: the Demonisation of My Working Arse, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chubz-Demonization-My-Working-Arse/dp/3945247101