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# You can't write this stuff
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/you-cant-write-this-stuff/
- Published: 2007-06-26T10:06:18.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:36:33.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:23

**Guy Aitchison (London,** [**OK**](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** Tom Lehrer was only partly right when he said that satire died the day Henry Kissinger won the Noble Peace Prize. It is in fact Blair's [appointment](http://www.epolitix.com/EN/News/200706/4b6d0f54-f461-4006-9b27-a98610bbcfed.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net) as international peace envoy to the Middle East that has dealt it the fatal blow! Satirists across the country should hang up their microphones, store away their instruments and put down their pens, for as Tom put in 1973, "there's nothing more to say..."