Confessions of a Diary Secretary – a comedy that exploited the then-Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott’s affair with a civil servant – was broadcast on ITV in February 2007. While … Read the rest
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Here we go again. Yet another ‘satire’ about Tony Blair. This time from the Comic Strip, those 1980s Alternative Comedians who did so much to stamp out Thatcherism and … Read the rest
During the Edinburgh Festival the Political Studies Association organised a Festival of Politics which included a public debate about the relationship between comedy and politics. I was there as someone … Read the rest