Suzanne Harrington: Gen Z are temperamentally unsuited to dictatorship

"These academics who corrected the misinformation could just as easily have asked the parents of Gen Z about how they think their children would fare under dictatorship, and been deafened by the sonic boom of hollow laughter."

Suzanne Harrington at home in Brighton. Pic: Andrew Dunsmore.

We seem to be increasingly loving sensationalised misinformation as the old world order is replaced by no order, as stable structures and alliances collapse like wet cardboard, and previously senior sober political settings are reduced to Armando Iannucci levels of squirming farce as Trump asks his cabinet, “Is anyone unhappy with Elon?” 

Cue buttock clenching, nose scratching, eyeball swivelling, throat clearing, armpit prickling, as the non-elected non-Cabinet member hovers behind the table of suited old white men – and a handful of decorative women – like a Pound Shop Darth Vadar in his all-black and pathetic baseball cap. This is going to make a great comedy one day – just not right now.