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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

Alone, but en masse

  • 11 September 2006

Observations on protest

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

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

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

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

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

Mark Thomas - plays "let's start an arms company"

  • 03 April 2006
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I can think of no finer act of citizenship than students exposing the government's failure to control the arms trade

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

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

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