Guardian's Marina Hyde on: political satire, Michael Gove, and being a cinephile - BBC Newsnight

The Guardian's Marina Hyde's columns have satirically slashed some of our most well-known public figures from politicians to celebrities.
She sat down with Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark to talk about going to university with Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and how politicians seem to live in a 'Marvel Multiverse' where they keep coming back.
They also discussed how satire is used in Hyde's columns and the associations she employs to link politics to popular culture.
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[@jokermaan1]

Love Marina Hyde and always look forward to her twice weekly opinion pieces in the Guardian. Very bright and very funny.

[@timcomley5948]

And a fruitcake to boot

[@reallynotpc]

Me too!

[@ysgol3]

Nobody combines brilliant analysis with hilarity like Marina - NOBODY. She's incredibly brilliant - outstanding.

[@14nst3w4rt]

She's right. The boys at Eton aren't any smarter. They are very confident in selling themselves and they have all the connections to guide them there.

[@nm3260]

Hyde is fast becoming a national treasure

[@niallfoody97]

Which hyde?

[@housinauthority5258]

The Guardian has very low readership numbers so, no, not a national treasure.

[@ben.1202]

@@housinauthority5258 Their website receives 3.5 million viewers per day, making it the 3rd most read news site in the UK. I wouldn't call that 'very low readership' by any stretch.

[@johnmackenzie3030]

Ha Ha

[@TheRmr23]

@@housinauthority5258 Drivel. It's one of the most widely read news sites in the world, let alone the UK.

[@kylesmith8128]

Satire has totally changed reality materially. It is just hard to quantify or track because it affects individuals with the mind (and orientation) to appreciate it and let it affect their future judgments.

[@willyjourney]

A brilliant, brilliant writer. The Guardian column is hilarious, yet terrifying. Essential reading.

[@Gutenmorgenside]

Her column in the Guardian is excellent.

[@johnmackenzie3030]

Is it?

[@philtomlinson8220]

I would say Marina is being nowhere near cynical enough. As she said at the start of the interview, Kwasi Kwarteng was known for his intelligence. I'm afraid I don't buy this idea that he made a mistake, he knows the markets, he knows economics, I'm sure he knew exactly what he was doing.

[@m.a.b.4104]

If only we could go back to a time when the phrase 'politics is boring' rang true. Have seen over the last 6+ years the UK leader become progressively more incompetent, to the point where they have become hopeless at their main strong suit, managing the economy.

[@chilledtorsion]

super clever probably meant 'good at exams'. And therein is the problem we face.

[@denniswinters3096]

I think the decline of quality in our politicians has probably got something to do with the general decline in respect for politics as a profession. It seemed to start in the early Sixties, with That Was The Week That Was and the Profumo Affair. People like Robin Day and David Frost started talking to politicians and public figures in a much less deferential way, which wasn't exactly a bad thing, but it led eventually to an almost complete distrust of anyone in public office. People have become very cynical about the motives of politicians, with the end result being that only the worst possible people end up doing it.

[@ChrisMegsonUK]

The Lionel Hutz reference!!! Oh yessss!

[@soton5teve]

She reminds me of "murder in successville's clara delevingne"

[@soton5teve]

01:27 - 01:28

[@rexmundi1812]

Beautiful, intelligent and funny! Pretty perfect.

[@yamz3713]

Yes she seems very interesting and quite charming

[@markrad1001]

What's with the faces on the screen?

[@susananderson5029]

balm not bomb (cc). I agree about Theresa May.

[@julieproud4305]

BBC NOT REPORTING on the ENOUGH IS ENOUGH CAMPAIGN

[@ofsoundmind3990]

Does Kirsty Wark always interrupt and change the subject so often? Marina Hyde in the middle of answering the last question then she pipes up again.

[@2wheelsgood.]

Truss and definitely Kwarteng, to be fair to them, are probably on a spectrum of something. Emotional intelligence, rather than where one got one’s degree, matters more.

[@llanelli311]

Marina Yah

[@boldnessofsouls3502]

The”old age” of Charles not of Elizabeth.

[@auro1986]

bbc, why blue studio used rarely?

[@codewalters]

Justice for Bilkis Bano and her family

[@charlespirate1]

Former Sun journalist.

[@slyasleep]

The best columnist in the UK.

[@monkeytrousers6180]

Oxbridge mafia.

[@kpwand]

Irony is that her own husband is Oxbridge/Eton.

[@raspberrieswithcream]

Well, they certainly click. An opportunity for a Kirsty-Marina weekly show surely!

[@puglia5375]

Love this lady. Love her pieces in the guardian.

[@thesunshinehome]

I don't understand why all the politicians are complete slimeballs

[@chriscocks3670]

One of the best

[@johnmackenzie3030]

Er ..no...

[@AntGeezer]

Such a weak interview but Kirsty is clearly having a whale of a time…🙄

[@ianwalker3950]

Big Foot? Probably not the best mythical beast to have used there....

[@lookalike23]

Nice to know what the ex-Oxford Uni crowd think , Ta Beeb.

[@amosjulien2539]

Marina gets my vote again.

[@amosjulien2539]

Marina's a fantastic woman ... totally on the money.

[@psnaris]

Marina Snyde.

[@markosthomadakis9256]

I can’t say I understand what’s she’s about. She has a big shaped peculiar nose and is the only thing I can say about her

[@nickowen5310]

Went to school with him. Went to university with him. Can you really write satire about the ruling class when you are the ruling class?

[@nigelfelton9824]

Marina can.

[@seandoyle2983]

She's the ruling class? Millions go to university.

[@celestialteapot309]

l cannot see the point of this person, sorry.

[@tt-ew7rx]

One day Marina Hyde will look back at the Truss regime fondly when faced with the PM of the day. You ain't seen nothing yet.

[@edmundironside9435]

Marina Hyde seems to have an over-inflated ego

[@mehcol]

If she doesn't suffer from Imposter Syndrome, she should. But again, she works at the Guardian.

[@mangs9940]

I love her. She is hilarious and clever. Would love to meet her

[@mitchmomlc]

i think it is also true that because generations after the war, have not seen as much poverty or destruction. the mind does not focus on the basics of life.

[@gareth449]

don`t forget to mention on a news interview the book you wrote

[@Gavin48]

I like her nose

[@yorkshireirish8038]

🤥

[@Gavin48]

@@yorkshireirish8038 I'm not trolling. I like it. It's very cute

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

Wonderful nose.

[@bbbl8910]

Too posh to push!

[@mehcol]

she's not funny at all.

[@deejay5860]

Guardian doesn’t do satire. Guardian does whining. The highest pitched whine being Owen Jones.

[@kylesmith8128]

Have you ever read a satire? Or, for that matter, a real book? Without pictures?

[@deejay5860]

Yes, yes and yes.

[@curiositycloset2359]

@joooooeeeeeee No it's not. It's been infiltrated by the security services and often runs hit pieces on anti imperialist activists. It's the worst possible news paper.

[@grahambuckerfield4640]

@@deejay5860 Not read any of Hyde’s excellent satire then? Jones? An occasional contributor who gets it from readers in the comments. From the other side of the political spectrum (unlike the swivel eyed Daily Mail other views are allowed), Simon Jenkins is like Jones, reliably wrong on many things. John Crace is funny too, not that the people and what they are doing is funny, just they are absurd. As is judging something you have never read?

[@rishispewcack5745]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. YET another Daily Fail reader crying again.

[@Roy-in-U.K.]

Here is the left patting the left on the back!😎

[@marknewbold2583]

No

[@pollyannakarina]

Kirsty Wark is left? Ha ha.

[@workman122]

Reminds me why I gave up reading the guardian..

[@peterdowney1492]

Marina Hyde started in The Sun. The Guardian is now rivalling said paper as the beacon of gutter press content. Nice correlation there, I think.

[@rossa23]

Marina Hyde just sounds like she was jealous about how much more intelligent Kwasi Kwarteng was and still can’t get over it…

[@matty6762]

Good satire there haha 😄

[@rossa23]

@@matty6762 thanks Matty hahahahaha

[@pollyannakarina]

Oh, he's a true genius, everyone is saying it FFS.

[@lukekelly7371]

Hahahahaha… that’s a good one…. hahahahaha… very good…. no, really…. hahahahaha

[@rossa23]

@@lukekelly7371 HAHAHAHAGAFGAHShsgad thanks Luke. No really thanks. HSHSHSHSHHAAHAGAF

[@stevetheprogger1]

As long as the "satire" is not aimed at the precious left!

[@adam.f89]

If only the left were in power. If only...

[@marknewbold2583]

You didn't read The Guardian during 2019

[@ancud7958]

because God loved the world so much that he gave his only son Jesus Christ for all mankind so that any man who believes in Jesus Christ may inherit eternal life through him if we confess our sins Jesus Christ is faithful and just to forgive us and only through Jesus can we inherit eternal life

[@rishispewcack5745]

God loves the world so much that he allows over one million children to starve to death every year. Grow up FFS.

[@janeybundybird]

What a nose, by Toutatis!