Veteran satirist Tom Lehrer said that the world of comedy changed in 1973 when the greatest living war criminal, Henry Kissinger, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. ‘At that moment, satire died. There was nothing more to say after that’.
If, during Bono’s cosying up to the G8 last summer, I’d done a sketch about him [...]

Sick Hospitals Haemorrhage Cash
Three times over budget, seven years behind schedule… and finally abandoned

Last Wednesday the Attorney-General, Lord Goldsmith, gave a speech on “UK Terrorism Legislation in an International Context”. At the outset he said ‘You have asked me particularly to talk about the UK legislative response to the threat of terrorism and that is what I shall focus on.’
That hasn’t, however, been the headline-grabbing part of the [...]