The debate about the Daily Mail and its attacks on Ed Miliband (via his father Ralph) and now Mehdi Hasan has been getting a bit serious, hasn’t it?

What a good thing we in Britain are fortunate enough to have a grand tradition of satirical comedy, practised by people for whom nobody is a ‘Sacred Cow’ and anything is a candidate to be turned into a spitroast and hung over a barbecue.

This clip is from The Now Show and features the songwriting skills of the ever-melodic Mitch Benn.

If anyone else finds material that’s worth a chuckle and thinks it should appear on this site, please send it in.

We could all do with a good laugh.