In his second round-up, EWAN CAMERON picks excellent solo shows that deal with Scottishness, Englishness and race as highlights
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The BBC’s new director-general Tim Davie's complaint about left-wing bias in comedy is disingenuous in the extreme, says CHRIS NINEHAM
JOHNSON’S VEHICLE: Have I Got News For You
Fiery words from the Bard in Blackpool and Edinburgh, and Evidence Based Punk Rock from The Protest Family
MATTHEW HAWKINS is mesmerised by a performance that dissolves the line between audience and performer
MATTHEW SHARPE recommends the essays of a Renaissance politician that instruct and unnerve after 400 years
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes the reissue of a seminal work of revolutionary theory that have genuine relevance in the current context
RON JACOBS rides shotgun with a member of Black Bloc on the wave of anti-capitalist protests of the 1990s and early 2000s
Tim Davie thinks one of the BBC’s big problems is that it employs too many left-wing comedians. He must be having a laugh.
First of all, there aren’t very many left-wing comedians at the BBC.
In fact, the BBC has a long record of promoting bigoted and right-wing comedians going back to the days of Jim Davidson, Kenny Everett and beyond.
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