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I'm surprised you are saying you disagree with me, because I think my view mainly dovetails with yours. To clarify further, I am fully open to the fact that people who have identified themselves as 'the left' do not have a monopoly on anti-racism. Indeed, there was much racism from the labour...

Economically, there are often a lot of similarities between the parties usually considered of the Far Left and of the Far Right. The key difference is that class and race are seen as the respective basic units of society and dividing lines on which to build the similar looking economic policies.

Likewise. Very selective and self-serving article.

Far from going the other way, this view of workers is highly compatible with right-wing free market economics.

In the end, what matters is whether it is funny or not.

I loved Election Night Armistice when Armando Iannucci with Peter Baynham and David Schneider went on the comedy circuit and used the scripted jokes that politicians had used during the 1997 election campaign. They wished to see whether the political jokes were funny to ordinary punters outside...

Are HovaGirl and you the same person?

Thanks. What I'm saying has to be put in the context that when the Tories do leave office, it seems unlikely that a genuine left-wing government will take its place. The left have been out of office since 1979. The Blair and Brown governments weren't quintessentially left-wing administrations.

If you aren't dominant in the political sphere, there is a tendency to try to retreat to (or try extra hard to be dominant in) other domains, particularly in culture, almost as a form of compensation. If you feel downtrodden by the government of the day, a joke gives you brief respite when it's...

Given that political comedians thrive on being 'anti-establishment' in their point-scoring, a long period of right-wing government since 1979 has probably led to the decline of right-wing comedians. New Labour was not really a left-wing government so did not offer much respite. The period...

They're all in the Cabinet.