How to Trick Your Way onto the Property Ladder review – living in a grave plot? We really are screwed

The brief

Why can no one of my generation find an affordable place to live? Andy Burnham, who makes a surprise cameo on the new Channel 4 satire How to Trick Your Way Onto the Property Ladder, has two words: “Margaret Thatcher.” The housing crisis is a policy issue, but the presenter Oobah Butler wants to trial wackier workarounds for millennials keen to game a rigged system. Butler’s tongue-in-cheek documentary explores some elaborate parodic ideas, using himself and two young, hopeful first-time buyers, Mohammed and Insaf, as guinea pigs. Have they tried the bank of Mum and Dad? Let’s try to hypnotise an estate agent into selling us a property for a…