Mark Thomas
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Theatre
Comedy: Sand in the underpants of power
- 16 October 2006
A remarkable show which combines activism, journalism and good gags
Mark Thomas: as used on the famous Nelson Mandela
Farnham Maltings and touring
What did I do to deserve this?
- 21 August 2006
Being publicly praised by MPs is like being outed. I wanted to tell my parents that I've been experimenting with reformism, but now the whole world knows
Politics
Mark Thomas does his strangest gig ever
- 05 June 2006
Speaking for 50 minutes in front of a hundred arms dealers, on a boat in the Thames, has to be among my strangest gigs
Society
Mark Thomas has a bidet called Prescott
- 15 May 2006
My friend's loo is "Hezza". For some years now I have called our bidet "Prescott", because I don't know what that's for either
World Affairs
Mark Thomas tracks some dangerous widgets
- 01 May 2006
The CIA uses unmanned drone planes to kill people. The computer "brains" for these drones are made in Towcester
Politics
Mark Thomas refuses to ignore the problem of Turkey
- 24 April 2006
There is one EU problem that is resolutely not going away and will only get worse: that is, Turkey's membership
Politics
Mark Thomas - plays "let's start an arms company"
- 03 April 2006
- 2 comments
I can think of no finer act of citizenship than students exposing the government's failure to control the arms trade
Life & Society
Mark Thomas - won't give the world a Coke
- 13 March 2006
As Jamie Oliver whizzes around on his Vespa of health and schools knock the sale of fizzy drinks on the head, Coke is in a bind
Society
Mark Thomas flushes out a fatwa
- 27 February 2006
A fatwa committee has sentenced the Kurdish writer Marywan Halabjaye to death, while Kurd leaders just stand by
