Tag: satire

Brexit: a Martian sends a postcard home

March 7, 2016 4 Comments
Brexit: a Martian sends a postcard home

My dearest brothers and sisters, It is two years since you did me the honour of despatching me on a voyage across the solar seas to inspect what the Britons call their ‘mother of parliaments’. I must own that, reviewing my previous report to you, I cannot absolve myself of an embarrassing naïveté about this […]

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Death of a satirist

January 16, 2014 0 Comments
Death of a satirist

News of the death of Simon Hoggart a couple of weeks ago caused widespread dismay.  For so many years he skewered politicians with wit and ridicule in his parliamentary sketches and on the radio it seems hardly possible that it’s all come to an end so suddenly.  Who will we have in future to talk […]

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