Seldom in recent memory has there been a bigger disconnect between voters and their elected politicians than the current contest to elect the next Prime Minister of Britain. Like the most uninspiring final of X-Factor ever, the Tory leadership race has been whittled down to just two contestants. I never thought this country would ever […]
In 1999, many people were sceptical about the effect the new Parliament would have on the everyday life of ordinary people in Scotland. Few would have predicted at the time that within fifteen years, we would vote in an independence referendum, with the distinct possibility of a second before 2021. I for one did not […]
I’m writing this from South Australia, where I’m performing for a month. Despite the country’s close cultural links to Britain, television news down under gives very little coverage to British politics. As a result, I am being drip-fed snippets of news via the internet and phone calls to home, and it seems like I am […]
Happy New Year. The start of January is always a relief to me, as it signals that the sheer living Hell of Christmas is out of the way for at least eleven months. The December party season is without doubt the worst time of year to earn one’s living as a stand-up comedian. Playing to […]
Vladimir McTavish’s A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS There has been no lack of hyperbole in the media over the past few months as Britain approaches the cliff edge of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit. The headlines have boomed out on the front pages and on the BBC. This is ‘The Most Important Constitutional Crisis since the Abdication’, […]
The start of September has traditionally signalled the end of the ‘Silly Season’. Nobody appears to have told Theresa May, Jeremy Hunt or Phillip Hammond about this though. May’s embarrassing trip to Africa is but the latest in a series of desperate moves to try to re-position the Britain on the world stage post-Brexit. The […]
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