Caroline Frost: Twenty Twenty Six proves that satire is not dead

Caroline Frost: Twenty Twenty Six proves that satire is not dead

Add Twenty Twenty Six to your watchlistIt was the great Tom Lehrer who said, when Henry Kissinger was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, that “satire was dead”. This era’s professional wags were similarly minded to put down their pens after US President Donald Trump was given the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize ahead of this year’s World Cup. There is a lot that is wrong with this year’s tournament and the US’s co-hosting of it (I seem to remember w…