Given the global plague of Agent Orange, the bard channels his energy into community self-help

In which we accompany the Bard into Cymru to meet his musical accomplices, young and old

The bard ditches an unspecial relationship, encounters a new subdivision of metal, and discovers the cure for a stiff neck

The bard tunes into the message crooned by the newly self-appointed masters of the universe

The Bard pays homage to the sands of Morecambe, for the talent they have nourished, and in memory of the Chinese workers they engulfed

The Star’s itinerant troubadour pauses to take stock of the rise of the far-right in former East Germany

Staring proudly across the Channel, the Bard of East Worthing and Shoreham revels (with a few reservations) in the election of the constituency’s first Labour MP

Armed with helpful visual aids, the bard campaigns furiously against sewage both literal and metaphorical

Breaking news: Tories routed in Costa del Geriatrica! Bob Crow honoured in Wakefield! Anti-fascists promoted to the Bundesliga!

Heart-wrenchingly, the bard reveals the magic genie who inspired him as a Grade 6 violin dropout to stick a pick-up on it and go mad

The itinerant troubadour extols the virtues of grassroots campaigning and train travel as he makes, for the first time in his life, a pilgrimage to the Holy City

The doughty troubadour finds new lyrics attaching themselves to 1960s earworms, promotes lyrical cycling, and reveals his earliest inspirations