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Politics of Approval – The Age A GENERATION ago, Yes Minister conquered the earth. It was television that made you think that British comedy was still coming from the team that brought you Wilde, Sheridan and Shaw. Margaret Thatcher adored the show. Malcolm Fraser and Bob Hawke were Australian prime ministers when the show governed [...]

Jonathan Lynn tries to stay ahead of polly follies, writes Daniel Ziffer. POLITICALLY, we could barely live in more amazing times. The euro zone is in crisis, the US may elect a man who proposed an open marriage to the second of his three wives, and our Prime Minister knifed her predecessor and requires the [...]

A Review of The London Production, Friday 21 May 2010 WELCOME BACK, SIR HUMPHREY by CHARLES SPENCER How wonderful it is to have them back. More than twenty years on from the acclaimed television series, Jim Hacker, that most embattled and craven of prime ministers, and Sir Humphrey Appleby, the most devious and obscurantist of [...]

A Review of The London Production, Friday 21 May 2010 Yes, Prime Minister Festival Theatre, Chichester | by Michael Billington Shores of lunacy … Henry Goodman as Sir Humphrey Appleby and David Haig as Prime Minister Jim Hacker. This is not a simple replica of the popular 1980s TV series. Even if writers Antony Jay and [...]

An Article about The London Production – May 7, 2010 Yes, Prime Minister: The Greatest Comeback Since The Lib-Dems Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey have returned. Why? One of the writers who created them explains… Andrew Billen They say that whoever you vote for the Government always gets in. That was the running joke behind [...]