Gilbert Ramsay News Today

by Gilbert Ramsay and Moutaz Alkheder (Hurst, £25) IT’S a funny one, humour. Where it comes from. What it releases. Is it cruel?   And it’s hard to nail down, too. A scientific study could be like analysing poetry or pulling a flower apart by its petals.   Yet in politics, satire and comedy are powerful tools, not just to cut through crap and hypocrisy but to mock and therefore render impotent — Mel Brookes ridiculed the Nazis in The Producers and Monty Python the crucifixion in The L...