16-07-2017 11:00 via theguardian.com

Political turmoil has left me with nothing to aim at | Stewart Lee

Satirists are supposed to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, but all I see everywhere are victims and losersLast summer I wrote a comedy drama script, currently “in development with a major broadcaster”, concerning a charming, confident, clever and machiavellian politician. Named Horace Thompson, he manipulates popular culture to consolidate support for a controversial referendum he narrowly won, intending to further his own self-interest. And he was in the Bullingdon
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