‘Five-year-old on acid’: Liz Truss’s Ten Years to Save the West, digested by John Crace
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Sketchwriter’s take on memoir of PM who screwed up catastrophically and quickly but thinks there’s still work to doI was impatient to get going. Plans had been made. I picked up my phone. “ChatGPT. Write me a memoir in the style of an excitable five-year-old on acid.”“We’ve only got 10 years to save the west,” I declared solemnly. Continue reading

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