Have just come across this Rowan Atkinson video lampooning the Tories. This was made for Not The Nine O'Clock News soon after the Thatcher victory of 1979, but have a look and see whether you can't imagine a modern day Conservative making the same comments! Classic stuff (starts with the end of a Griff Rhys Jones sketch so give it time!)
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The retreat of liberalism goes on
As communism seemingly disappeared from view at the end of the 1980s, in a sudden and unexpected blow-out, there was plenty of triumphal...
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As communism seemingly disappeared from view at the end of the 1980s, in a sudden and unexpected blow-out, there was plenty of triumphal...
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Hubris, it seems, comes to everyone in time, even apparently invulnerable and all conquering media magnates. Or so it must seem to anyone o...
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#200218907-001 / gettyimages.com George Osborne doesn’t strike me as a particularly emotive or soft-headed politician, but ev...
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