In our digital times, as we are inundated with YouTube videos, memes and social media, satire is everywhere, but it can be more damaging to people's reputations than direct criticism, according to ...

That's the definition of satire in the Oxford Dictionary. Charlie Hebdo used it to mock political figures, religion and celebrities. It may have cost 12 people their lives in an attack on the magazine ...

Satire is supposed to prick people's consciences and challenge the powerful - but is that possible in a society where no-one can agree the basis of right and wrong, asks Will Self. In the wake of the ...