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Who needs S&M when you can write for the Telegraph?

Who needs S&M when you can write for the Telegraph?

Robert Webb on doing battle with the online green Biro brigade.

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The NS Interview: Josie Long

The NS Interview: Josie Long

“I love voting! I’d vote three times if I could”

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The NS Interview: Frank Skinner

The NS Interview: Frank Skinner

“People are more accepting of transvestism than Catholicism.”

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Holy Flying Circus (BBC 4)

A smug and cloying homage to Monty Python.

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"Twitter, at its worst, is a megaphone for lunatics"

Rob Brydon on Steve Coogan, Hackgate and the perils of celebrity.

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Comedy update

Comedy update

Private Eye at the V&A, the Onion's UK arrival and Atkinson hints at Blackadder 5.

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"My sympathies have always been with the bullied rather than the bully."

Graham Linehan on comedy writing, politics and Twitter.

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Cultural Capital podcast: Josie Long

Cultural Capital podcast: Josie Long

A conversation on UK Uncut, politics and activism with the award-winning comedian.

Laughing matters?

Laughing matters?

Attitudes towards trans people betray the wider failures of "alternative" comedy.

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