13 Apr 2026 - 12:59am

How to defy dictatorship Anatoly Marienhof saw through Soviet communism

William T. Vollmann

28.10

Jonathan Swift’s lessons in irony He understood the bigotry of relativism

Terry Eagleton

02.09

Trump needs a Fool Satire deflates delusions of power

Terry Eagleton

13.08

Language is the last class marker Snobbery didn’t die with the Mitfords

Frances Wilson

11.07

Stop writing men as monsters It turns feminism into misogyny porn

Valerie Stivers

27.04

Why we need Joe Orton The murdered playwright would have skewered today's censors

Andrew Doyle

26.04

New Labour was beyond parody Untrammelled power is no laughing matter

Ian Martin

11.12

Why satire gave up on politics Power is no longer wielded by our hapless politicians

Dorian Lynskey

15.07

Some politicians deserve to be mocked Unfortunately, satirists are the crack troops of the New Puritanism

Giles Fraser

21.08

Let the Spitting Image rubber rot Will the new version really dare to be more outrageous than the original?

Gareth Roberts

18.08

Is snobbery as bad as racism? The British are so sensitive about it — but not the inequities of class that it's based on

Cosmo Landesman

10.07

How Private Eye lost its bite The magazine is too cosy with the new liberal Establishment

Robin Aitken