The final years of Macmillan's premiership were difficult ones, coinciding with the satire boom of the early 1960s, in which the revue Beyond the Fringe, the magazine Private Eye and the BBC television series That Was the Week That Was all tended to portray Macmillan as an aristocratic and rather doddery figure of fun (journalist Bernard Levin dubbed him "the walrus" after the character in Alice in Wonderland). The "Supermac" image tended to be replaced in the public mind by that of the grouse-moor: in other words, the sense of many that both Macmillan and the Conservative Party, which had been in power since 1951, were out of touch.
Macmillan's final years were marked by a period of satire that coincided with his premiership, during which he was often portrayed as an aristocratic figure who was perceived as somewhat doddery (journalist Bernard Levin referred to him as "the walrus" after the character from Alice in Wonderland). This perception shifted public opinion away from the earlier image of "Supermac," and led many to believe that both Macmillan and the Conservative Party were disconnected from ordinary people.