In Stephens work to date he has never relented in his attacks His satirical work of which there is a fair representation in Either Side The Horizon lampoons not so much political figures as their methods and the institutional hypocrisy they have inherited His favourite targets are those who say one thing while doing another be they oil lords controlling the happiness and destinies of millions of families or those appointed by an elite to govern the standards of passionless culture Either Side The Horizon is a fine example of Olivers nerve his critical eye and his occasionally combative stance