In Tuesday’s Daily Telegraph Eric Idle said that television is now full of people “trying to bonk each other on islands.” He ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking ...

If any direct debits have been set up, they should be immediately cancelled.” Between them, Sultana and Corbyn managed to ...

In recent opinion polls, Corbyn is the third-best-known current “party leader” after Starmer and Farage. “Oh Jeremy Corbyn” undoubtedly has popular, personal appeal. He was elected for the 11th time ...

Scotland’s political elite seems interested only in their own obsessions or narrow party political objectives, says Susan Dalgety ...

Are you the Judean People’s Front?” asks the eponymous character in Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Big mistake, as Reg, the leader of the People’s Front of Judea, explains: “Listen, the only people we ...

COMMENT: Never in the history of fringe left politics has such a great opportunity been so comprehensively messed up by so ...

Many disenfranchised Brits were initially excited to hear that Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana had joined forces earlier this ...

Missoula's community cinema is screening "Waltzing with Brando," as well as one of the late icon Redford's most celebrated movies.

Michael Palin in Venezuela is available on Channel 5 at 9pm on 16 September.

“I’m 81! I shouldn’t be here. I should be in bed!” yells Michael Palin (now 82), soaked to the skin, as he stands beside ...