Time for a British version of Andy Borowitz's 'Profiles in Ignorance'?

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Faced with Kamikwasi Kwarteng and Librium Liz, respectively chancellor and prime minister of Britain for barely three weeks, but naturally thoughts turn to the apparent deterioration of intellect among Anglo-American leaders in the past half-century.

Andy Borowitz, famously christened “one of the funniest people in America” by CBS Sunday Morning, published ‘Profiles in Ignorance’ earlier this month.

If you haven’t read the ‘The Borowitz Report’ in the ‘New Yorker’, do so at your earliest opportunity. It’s a news column, sort of, in which Mr Borowitz expands on topical issues in signature fashion — skewering politicians, suggesting storylines that are just on the right side of nutty but simultaneously almost the other end of plausible.

‘The Borowitz Report’ is funny because it’s both so ludicrous and, so believable. In an alternate universe, or perhaps this one.

‘Profiles in Ignorance — How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber’ is about the reality of…