‘Every one’s a Van Cough’
If true satire is tragedy + time, then what passes for satire nowadays is mostly tame name-calling or easy reference humour.

But in that endless March when reality overtook satire, The Daily Star – aka Private Eye for truckers – hit it bang on the (big red) nose with their front-page coverage of the pandemic.

‘We feel your pain, but we don’t want to help you relieve it’

Bafflingly useless, a congress of clowns, the main tool of governance was to lie and deflect. They acted quick. Quick to profit from it. And the Daily Star had their number all the way.

You know you’re in trouble when the government can no longer lie convincingly.
In this exclusive one-night exhibition, can you help us figure out if this was satire or the truth?