George Osborne

Decline And Fall review

Imagine such a bygone world where someone would get a job they are ill-suited for, simply because they are posh. How foolish! Still, it will be interesting to see how George Osborne's London Evening Standard reviews the new BBC One adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's stinging social satire Decline And Fall.

Sue Johnson interview

Acting royalty Sue Johnston on working for Brian Epstein, her local MP George Osborne - and why Liverpool FC need her!

Russell Brand attacks David Cameron on Chatty Man

Russell Brand has dubbed David Cameron and George Osborne 'posh w***ers' as he continued to wage his war and 'revolution' against the government.

The Thick of It? George Osborne is beyond satire

When I think of what the Treasury has been up to, the daily unravelling at DoSAC looks like an exercise in political mastery.

You may remember a story about a couple of scamps presenting George Osborne with a GCSE maths book. Well, this is their show, and it's more inventive and interesting than that prank might suggest. There's as much silliness as there is chutzpah, whether they're infiltrating the Lib Dem conference to show up the coalition (and persuade Vince Cable to fetch them a latte) or chucking a question about the Irish bailout into a red-carpet puff interview. But there's also a subversive edge to many of the stunts, proving that political points can be made in a number of ways: hosting a rave outside what they describe as 'torture club' MI6, or discovering which political slogans can be worn into the Olympic Park. If Private Eye did a live-action version for kids, it might resemble this.

There are shades of Chris Morris, Mark Thomas and Dom Joly in this new series, a politically skewed news and sketch-based satire. The programme-makers have already hit the headlines in a stunt when the Chancellor George Osborne was handed a GCSE book to help with his maths skills at a speech to bankers. Now seeking out corruption, greed and hypocrisy, Heydon Prowse and Jolyon Rubinstein aim to humiliate and expose everyone from bankers and celebrities to Olympic organisers and tax-avoiding diplomats. Funny up to a point, even if you get the impression it's been done more artfully before.

The pranksters who gave George Osborne GCSE maths book

The chancellor is just one victim of two comedians dedicated to cutting celebrities down to size for their new TV show, The Revolution Will Be Televised.