spoof

If anything, the launch of Downing Street's own e-petition site in 2006 opened the famous black door of No 10 wider than ever to the public, which inevitably led to a flurry of spoof campaigns.

It survives in adaptations, spoofs, pop-culture references, and, apparently, the White House screening room.

The anonymous artist, known as 'A Sign of Humour', has placed his spoof signs close to Glaswegian landmarks such as the Finnieston crane and the Barrowland Ballroom.

That, anyway, is the story of a new spoof fairytale fantasy show by one of the writers of TV's Motherland, who says it's her homage to the Rooneys.

The spoof featured the society's imaginary president declaring: "True sycophancy is non-political."