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That's not a major social problem, but when you get to the amplification of outrage I think certainly the quoting of single tweets – or a hundred tweets – as if they represent a movement is worrying. And then you have the much more sinister situation, where clearly people with very different, very undemocratic agendas have spotted the opportunity to create false outrage, to take people's legitimate fears and double down on them over and over again until they become true horror." Elton collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber on The Beautiful Game in 2000, writing the book and lyrics (Lloyd Webber wrote the music). The Beautiful Game won the London Critics Circle Award for best new musical. I would like to preface this review by saying that generally speaking I like Ben Elton and I understand that this book is satire. The problem is, I just can't work out quite what it's trying to satirise, and therefore if I think the satirisation of that issue is something I can or cannot get behind. Elton has been criticised for writing a musical with Conservative Party supporter Andrew Lloyd Webber. In his defence, Elton said: "If I were to refuse to talk to Tories, I would narrow my social and professional scope considerably. If you judge all your relationships on a person's voting intentions, I think you miss out on the varieties of life." [64]

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I'm finally beginning to say something," says Elton, visibly upset. "I haven't said anything for 30 years. But it's been wearying. It just keeps coming around, every interview – 'So do you feel you've sold out?' Tell me what – apart from that Stewart Lee, whoever he is, thinks I have – might make you ask that?" Stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer. It's an acronym used to denote the wide range of human sexuality, and people who fall outside traditional male/female heterosexual binarism. Sherwin, Adam (24 April 2013). "Ben Elton mauled by critics after getting BBC sitcom The Wright Way badly wrong". The Independent . Retrieved 27 April 2013. Big shout out to Collin, who I buddy read this with. I had a blast! Make sure you read Collin's review too at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... ***Close (30 May 2000). "Ben Elton live on our talkboards". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 1 November 2009. Anne Robinson Fan club - Articles, Interviews, Facts". www.annerobinsonfanclub.co.uk . Retrieved 22 October 2022. Sometimes, however, it seems that it is a dizzying forest of hash tags driving the novel forward. If one moral or political position is acceptable this week, the death of another marginalised group member or the exposure of another predator changes the conversation next week. It’s all too easy to find oneself on the wrong side of history or to become toxic. And it’s not just the perpetrators (alleged or real) who suffer. There’s quite a touching story somewhere in the middle of the novel of Cassie Trinder, a hopeful actress who finally lands her dream position playing the young Princess Elizabeth in a movie, The Royal Closet. She even undergoes the humiliating casting couch charade of a final reading with Harvey Weinstein to land the role, just before Weinstein is exposed as a sexual predator and the whole project becomes too ‘toxic’ to proceed. Years later, with her career yet to take off, a new production of The Royal Closet is announced, except she’s now deemed too old to play the part. Cassie fights for a role in the production, yet her success is once again frustrated when Rodney Watson (a serial predator himself who has revived his career by playing the role of the ‘woke’ male) is exposed. Cassie ‘s career seems to be once more stalled when the production is cancelled a second time.

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Brothers divided for the most extreme reasons". This is Lincolnshire. 29 November 2012. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013 . Retrieved 2 February 2013.

Elton champions left-wing political positions. Prior to the 1987 UK general election, Elton supported Red Wedge by participating in a comedy tour organised by the campaign. [61] Relative Values: Ben Elton and his father". The Sunday Times. News UK. 15 March 2009. Archived from the original on 11 November 2014 . Retrieved 23 April 2015.