Andrew Marr’s interview with Marine Le Pen was culpably ill-prepared. But instead of outrage we just keep watching
by Lucy Wadham / November 17, 2016 / Leave a comment
Two men protest Marine Le Pen’s appearance on “The Andrew Marr Show” ©NEWZULU/See LI/NEWZULU/PA Images
More than a week has passed since that most surreal of mornings when many of us woke to find that the world was entirely different to the one in which we had gone to sleep. My initial shock at Donald Trump’s election has been slowly replaced by a kind of frozen comic detachment at its continuing awfulness. As if with each successive news item featuring Trump I’m being made to watch Mel Brooks’ “Springtime for Hitler” over and over again.
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