Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. With Bez dancing round the podiums shaking his maracas? Channelling Edgerton, he explains: “Labour packaged it as the ‘people’s war’ which delivered the welfare state. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. Murray is following an honourable tradition of protest politics. “The glory of Brexit is its incredible lack of self-awareness. A Ukip spokesman tweeted “At last, serious competition in the constituency” – and Murray might actually garner a good number of votes. › Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson must choose between an election and breaking their promises, Andreas Malm: “The likely future is escalating catastrophe”, How the Covid-19 crisis has turned the UK into a “Frankenstate”. But does it all detract from the political process? I can’t wait. Murray doesn’t think his humour “enables” racists, sexists or homophobes – “The point is to show how stupid those ideas are” – but he accepts that “maybe there is some collateral risk of something being interpreted in the wrong way.”, The onus, he suggests, should be placed on the audience to separate “what is and isn’t OK [to say] outside of the show…It’s not something I’ve ever lost sleep over, because the character is so blatantly over the top. Al Murray. For more information, click here. 24:38 Next Slide … He takes a sip off his coffee and smiles. I expect if I was French, I’d give a similar answer.”, Unlike his alter-ego, Murray doesn’t “deal in absolutes”. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mattforde “I think all countries will struggle with aspects of their past. Only if we believe that politics is exclusively for politicians should we object to the Pub Landlord entering the fray, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. You can do your own joke here about comedians in Parliament. “Binary choices” like the one offered by the referendum, he says, have made modern politics weaker, by undermining the chance for compromise. The very concept of democracy involves broad churches; it’s about accommodating all the impulses and intentions that the law allows. He’s not even bald, for a start. Born in Stewkley, Buckinghamshire, Murray was the only son of a “British Rail technocrat” father who previously served in the army and a mother who “volunteered for the Citizens Advice Bureau". 27:07 The New Lib Dem Leader Aug 27, 2020. Memorial Day – A Reminder that Freedom is not Free! “The minute you take sides you are not doing that.” Since then he’s had a rethink – and a good thing, too. 26:19 The Power of Data Aug 24, 2020. Nationalism is this supposedly benign assertion… there is no way of proving it, but many people are taken in by it. Al Murray is on a national tour with his alter-ego The Pub Landlord. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more.

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