"According to the producers, Liz's show confronts the issues that others tiptoe around. Wow. The lives, loves, and clinical explanations? Let's just say I'd watch that. Sadly, this doesn't seem to be the format. Instead, like all seasonal entertainment, The Liz Truss Show is based on a fairytale. The deep state and their allies in the media and politics tried to destroy me, madam explains in a statement, now I'm back. Are the gilt markets the deep state now? Honestly, I can't keep up."
"Anyhow, Liz says her new show, also available on other platforms such as Spotify, X and Substack, is for people who are tired of experts who get everything wrong, elites who refuse to listen, and weak leaders. Amazing. Liz famously ticked each of those three boxes, yet somehow regards herself as the antidote. It's a sort of political homeopathy, I guess, where a very small amount of the thing is also the cure for the thing."
Seasonal pantomime casts set a playful scene before attention shifts to The Liz Truss Show, a new punditry programme billed as confronting neglected issues. The show is promoted across multiple platforms and frames opponents as the deep state and misguided elites. The show's positioning clashes with recent history, as Truss previously championed free markets yet suffered a market-triggered downfall. The programme targets audiences tired of experts and weak leadership, even though Truss herself was widely criticized on those grounds. The premise reads as an ironic reversal and underscores a fragmented, performative contemporary political landscape.
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