When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.
— Rory Bremner
Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.
My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.
When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.
People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.
In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.
I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.
I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.
British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.
