Satire & scandal: the printmakers who mocked Georgian society
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Did Being Satisfied Ever Work?
Politicians today, I've spoken to politicians about this a lot and asked, you know, what is it like to be satirized? And I actually spoke to George Osborne at this one event, which was unveiling the new gravestone of James Gil Ray. He basically said that people do like it as a mark of recognition. The example that I could think of really that rings about is about George Canning, who was a future prime minister. But when he was making his early steps into the world of politics, he really petitioned to try and set up this meeting so that he would kind of bump into Gil Ray.
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