Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.

Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.

Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself, Associate Editor Toby Young,

and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay.

You can support our podcast by visiting Patreon. Young and you'll also receive our weekly newsletter. I'm Toby Young, welcome to the Quilett

podcast. In April 2018 a new parody account appeared on Twitter with the name

Titania McGrath. Describing herself as a radical

intersectionist poet committed to feminism, social justice and armed peaceful protest

Titania embodied a particular type that many people on Twitter

will be familiar with, a privileged white woman, usually a graduate of an elite university

with a successful media career, who is constantly complaining about white supremacy and

oppression. Last week Titania published her first book, Woke, a guide to social justice,

and a newspaper revealed the identity of her creator. a in Renaissance poetry. I sat down with Andrew to ask him about his brilliant creation.

Andrew, we learned recently that you are the genius behind Titania McGrath.

That's very kind of you.

How were you exposed?

I was exposed by a website called Chautel, which is the comedy industry website run by

Steve Bennett.

It's a really good website which gives

all the information about the industry and what's going on. But he found out and I'm not

sure how he found out but there was a catalog at a book festival in Frankfurt circulating

which goes back to November actually and it

...