The Hour of the Predator

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

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

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.