![]() But nobody wants to read about a bumbling, incompetent kakistocracy so the New Management is also terrifyingly competent (in a way that nobody could accuse Boris Johnson of being). ![]() I introduced the New Management at the end of The Delirium Brief as a horrible parodic burlesque of the Conservative and Unionist Party: yes they're evil and they want to steal everything that isn't nailed down and grind your proletarian face beneath their boot for all eternity. Why write a story about horrible merchant bankers bleeding their victims dry when you can turn them into vampires and literalize the metaphor? (That was The Rhesus Chart.) Why detract attention from the state's corporate panic to an invasion by having an actually-existing state as the attacker instead of, say, rampaging Elves?īut the events of 2016 broke political satire in the UK, possibly for good. The lifelike is made larger than life, so that it can be examined closely. I wrote The Delirium Brief in 2015-16, then had to re-write it right after the Brexit referendum because satire had died and gone to hell.Ī word about satire, which the Laundry Files most certainly is: satire seeks to draw attention to that which is already in the frame but blurred and indistinct by exaggerating and focussing the reader's attention on it.
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