On tonight's episode of #ArtThatMadeUs, comedian Stewart Lee analyses one of the most brilliant and shocking satires ever written in English – Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. Masquerading as an attempt to end poverty in Ireland, Swift's pamphlet draws the reader into a scheme for economic and industrial horror - the butchering of children to feed wealthy English landlords. The title has come to symbolize any outrageous but effective proposition. Actor Jason Isaacs reads Swift's savagely humo