Spitting Image 2025 is funny, filthy, forensic and, on YouTube, a force for good

Spitting Image 2025 is funny, filthy, forensic and, on YouTube, a force for good

This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine.Mary Whitehouse would have had only two words for it: Utter filth! Yes, Spitting Image has returned and, freed from the shackles of linear mainstream broadcasting, the gloves, the trousers and all bets, are off. YouTube is the new home of the show that brought us everything from surprising chart-topper The Chicken Song to the Queen Mother with a Brummie accent, via Douglas Hurd’s Mr Whippy hair…