On this week’s episode, we discuss how to stay sane in the age of Trump, whether Hull deserves the mantle of Britain’s City of Culture, and if Tatler were right to outlaw the word ‘ghastly’.
First, we sat down with Harry Mount, who writes a guide in this week’s magazine on how to keep your head in ‘Trumpworld’, when all about you are losing theirs. The key, Harry says, is to block out the noise:
“Don’t let Trump — or his usefully hysterical enemies — drive you crazy. Ignore the trolls and the virtue-Trumpeters; discard Trump’s anti-media hysteria as the cynically concocted ruse it is. Most people — including you — aren’t shouting, so why should the shouters have a monopoly on your attention? Neither the Trump-lovers nor the Trump-haters have a monopoly on the truth.”
He was joined on the podcast by Michael Segalov, a writer and activist, who defended the protests and urged people to get angry, saying:
“There is, of course, a time and a place for responding to people in a cool, calm and collected manner, but, at the same time, there are very real, very pertinent, very present consequences to things already happening under [Trump’s] administration.
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