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David Aaronovitch has a blisteringly good piece today on the fatuity of so much of what passes for the intelligentsia's political carping. I won't extract it. Every sentence is a gem.
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I respectfully disagree, Stephen, and have blogged on the article myself.
None of what Aaronovitch says tackles what Armando Iannucci was saying at all. He (Iannucci) wants to have a laugh at politicians because generally speaking they're feckless idiots who deserve derision. But he also wants a higher class of political debate, like there used to be when "serious" journos could (and would) stick it to the Government and everyone else with unerring accuracy. These days, he argues, comedians are better at hitting the targets than columnists. And by writing such a shoddy article and dismally failing to kebab anyone (apart from dear old Alan Bennett), Aaronovitch has kind of proved the wee man's point.
