at the financial times. and ryan shorthouse, founder and executive chair of bright blue, an independent think tank which he says is for promoting liberal conservatism. first, though, writer and satirist armando ianucci is here the man behind the day today, alan partridge and the thick of it. right now he has a play on in london called pandemonium, satirising the government s response to the pandemic. it s on at london 5 soho theatre, and obviously he is going to be watching political events closely this year. what reaction are you getting? fantastic, they say they find it funny but also quite emotional. it is reallyjust taking you through the events in a slightly heightened style and there is no grand argument or polemic, it isjust style and there is no grand argument or polemic, it is just a way at this time to have a sort of cathartic re expression of the events that happened. i5 re-expression of the events that ha ened. . re-expression of the events that happened- re-expression o