It was sometimes described as a pantomime horse: its back half, over which she presided, was required reading even for many who disliked the paper's politics.
But far from the threadbare cowboy costumes, tin foil knights and lonely rear ends of a pantomime horse there is the colourful, dramatic and detailed world of cosplay.
In a previous stage adaptation, a version of a pantomime horse was used, where two actors filled one costume, providing three arms and two heads between them.
