Thursday, 29 October 2020

Has British politics gone beyond satire?

 Has British politics gone beyond satire? - Stephen Smith interviews Gerald Scarfe 

Has British politics gone beyond satire?. 2019. [video] Directed by S. Smith. BBC.

(Has British politics gone beyond satire?, 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yss8JHZpyDw

  • 'I stand in judgement of the people I criticise' - Scarfe
  • 'The current state of affairs in politics is almost beyond parody. It's more surreal' - Smith
  • 'Some people (like Boris), are cartoons of themselves' - Scarfe
  • 'Drawing politicians as animals is always good fun' - Scarfe 
  • Scarfe drew Churchill in The House of Commons in the 1960s; 'we the public had only known Churchill as the British bulldog on the cliffs of Dover'. Scarfe drew him as a 'Senile wreck'
  • 'The whole point of being an artist, hopefully, is to tell the truth'
  • 'A cartoonists image paints a thousand words that a writer would probably get sued for' - Smith

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