Jack & Sinan Kose review Chris Clarke's 'The Dark Knight and the Puppet Master'

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This is the audio of a recent stream on our friend Sinan Kose's (@TheSinanKose on Twitter) Twitch channel - https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader. Jack & Sinan Kose review the recent book by Chris Clarke, the son of former New Labour minister Charles Clarke (the one with the ears), 'The Dark Knight and the Puppet Master'. Bitterly wounded by a lifetime of hard left trolls pointing out that his dad voted for the Iraq War and various anti-civil liberties legislation, Chris identifies closely on a personal level with what might be termed "the establishment", and so feels a visceral aversion to any politics that seeks to challenge what he views as an ultimately benevolent status quo. Drawing a distinction between those who agree with his right-wing views (the "pluralist left"), and the Milneite scum of Corbynism (the "populist left"), Clarke's dull reactionary tract seeks to lay the blame for most of society's problems squarely at the feet of those who don't conform to his platonic ideal of Sensible Politics: needless to say, the boys are delighted to sink their vampiric leftist fangs into such an irredeemable piece of crap.