The 1066 Committee and All That

So Far, So Good
by Ross Fitzgerald & Antony Funnell
Hybrid Publishers, 2018, 214 pages, $22.95
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I think it was Salman Rushdie who once opined that the Thatcher era was a great time for satire. The whiff of ideology is a godsend for the able pen—satire the means by which we create distance from our partisan hallucinations.

The same has not held true—or at least not true enough—in our own time. If satire works by stretching a social or political tendency to its (preposterous) logical conclusion, then much of the time our political players have beaten us to the punch. It’s hard to land winning blows on millennial identitarian nitwits or Donald Trump when the genuine article is already a parody.

Perhaps it is for this reason that So Far, So Good—Ross Fitzgerald and Antony Funnell’s new “entertainment” featuring Dr Professor Grafton Everest—is often funny but somehow not quite funny enough. It is the latest in a loosely connected series of…