Hari Kunzru

Twice Upon a Time: listening to New York

Machine were mice and men were lions

Once upon a time

But now that it’s the opposite

A few days ago the Youth BNP’s charmless Billy Brit appeared in my Facebook feed. There was something both bizarre and inept about the clip: a pale cream sub-Sesame Street puppet speaks in a castrato voice before a backdrop that looks like it’s been set-dressed by the guy who does beheading videos.