So once an issue has platform status, the platform acquires final authority and all you can talk about is the platform. There used to be a place called satire where you could go when politics got really bad. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Thick of It: a world where people are monstrously human, complicated, foul and furious. Photograph: Mike Hogan/BBCYou didn’t watch Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It in order to think about Alastair Campbell. “I think politics should be held in higher esteem,” O’Farrell says, and not just because, without it, satire has “sort of died, really.

Source: The Guardian October 18, 2016 18:11 UTC