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Rubberly jubbly: Roger Law with Margaret Thatcher. Joe Giddens/PA Wire/PA Images

November 23, 2018

Spitting Image: the puppet satire that captured Thatcher’s Britain

Martin Farr, Newcastle University

Royals, politicians and pop stars were all fair game for this smash hit show of the 1980s and 1990s.

Jonathan Pie/YouTube

June 5, 2017

Broadcasting rules are killing political satire – thank heavens for the internet

Allaina Kilby, University of Nottingham

The UK needs more US-style political news satire. Sadly broadcast rules are making that difficult.

Read all about it … or not, under Section 40. PA

January 6, 2017

Why Fleet Street is right to fight government-backed regulation of the press

Tim Crook, Goldsmiths, University of London

Beware the death of investigative journalism in UK newspapers.

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