Boris Johnson on William Hogarth

Interest in the work of the artist William Hogarth seems to have undergone something of a renaissance recently, and rightly so. The follies of our own time call for the skills of the satirist as much as those of Hogarth's age.

Conservative MP, Boris Johnson, talking about "The Rake's Progress" this morning on the radio, expressed disappointment that contemporary British art has not brought forth a satiric artist of Hogarthian proportions (even if Boris himself fulfils some of these in his own person !).