Giuliano da Empoli

Iannucci—showed political life as it actually is: a perpetual comedy of errors in which the characters, almost always unsuited to the positions they occupy, do their best to muddle along, extricating themselves from a series of unexpected, often absurd and sometimes utterly ridiculous situations.

In the last five years, global military spending has increased by 34 per cent.

was not simply an accelerator of power; it was a new form of power