Irish Examiner view: New UN human rights council members too bizarre

These countries, nearly all shameless, serial human rights offenders, have records that are an affront to the very idea.

Sadly, the UN seems more than capable of shooting itself in the foot through concessions to the most powerful and questionable regimes. 

The return of Spitting Image, the benchmark in TV political satire after 24 years, may be one of the strongest arguments for the re-election of Donald Trump. 

His behaviour, veering between the toxic and the unhinged, would swamp the programme with opportunity.