A Statement From Our Proprietor
Following allegations about our-so-called sketchwriter and a man known as "Oiky Ben"
From the desk of Lord Kronsteen
It has come to my attention that there is once again a certain amount of interest in the activities of Critic sketchwriter Robert Hutton, who is under investigation by the Standards Committee of the Union of Sketchwriters, Satirists and Yahoos (SCUSSY) over completely legitimate gifts received in the course of his daily japing.
Readers will doubtless be aware that, following the “Cash-for-Quips” scandal of the 1990s, in which it emerged that a small number of humourists had managed to make a living out of writing jokes, political satire has been subject to a tight system of regulation, with gagmeisters required to declare all relevant gifts and donations. Over the weekend, the irresponsible gutter muckrakers of the Sunday Times published a deeply irresponsible report into Hutton’s relationship with a younger colleague known to all of us simply as “Oiky Ben”.
Elsewhere today, please enjoy my piece in The House on The Book Of Tasty And Healthy Food, official cookbook of the USSR.