Britain burns while liberals check facts | Stewart Lee

Traditional news outlets flagellate themselves when inaccurate. But the rightwing instigators of last week's riots aren't restricted by concepts such as truth

Let's get ready to rhumble! As heroic locals and beleaguered police battle to stop cocaine-fuelled hard-right rioters burning people to death, the laughing faces of ITV's Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly hang suspended in the smoke shrouding buildings in Rotherham and Tamworth. Watch us wreck the mike!! Psyche!!!

The greatest trick Nigel Farage ever pulled, appearing in December's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, was looking normal to the ITV millions by eating a pizza covered with some penises. How Ant and Dec laughed as Nigel's EU views were left un-factchecked by current affairs titans such as Britney Spears's sister and a man from JLS. Psyche!

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