Rome can rest easy, after king of satire Armando Iannucci revealed he is not considering “having a go” at the Vatican.The creator of TV’s The Thick of It, (and its big-screen spin-off In the Loop) and Veep told the latest issue of Third Way magazine he had never “seen it as my mission to… ‘have a real good go’ at the Vatican”, and he said he had “never wanted to denigrate or belittle religious belief”. The idea that there was something better, “a higher set of values”, was a good thing and he believed it was no coincidence that every society had developed something like it, he said.Iannucci, who was raised in a family of Italian immigrants in Glasgow, said he had “a lot of respect” for the Jesuits who edu
01 April 2015, The Tablet
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