Is there any point to political satire? The great thing about the glory years of this genre in, say, the early 1960s was that the jokes punctured people's deepest held beliefs in a deferential society, or that, as in say the 1980s, they had a target that was an unbearable person, Maggie Thatcher. But today, when cynicism about politics is widespread and nobody trusts any authority, reality often seems to be more craz…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:06PM on May 25, 2016