Fifty Years On

As Private Eye turn 50, and after last week's Frost/Nixon Night on BBC Two, consider that the satire boomers of the early 1960s were so anti-Establishment that they were able to establish themselves in the West End and on the BBC while still in their early twenties, and in some cases while still at university. Look at them now, and do not marvel that they have somehow sold out. They never bought in. Rather, they were born into.