“Even when the country feels like it is falling apart around him, in his universe he can reconfigure it into his own image as a roaring success”. So John Crace wrote in his sketch about Boris Johnson’s Tory Party Conference speech, which was “politics as light entertainment”.

In a new book, A Farewell to Calm: The New Normal Survival Guide, one of the Guardian’s best-loved writers presents a brilliantly acerbic collection of some of his funniest sketches. Join him in conversation with fellow columnist Zoe Williams as they reflect on 18 months of bluster and bedlam, riddled with unfathomable U-turns and Christmas Covid confusion, lockdown-lifting and and nonstop Brexit blithering.

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Running time: 60 minutes

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