Four decades is a long time in political satire: Jonathan Lynn on the return of Yes Minister - INTERVIEW: The hapless Jim ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The original Whitehall trio: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds as Jim Hacker, Sir Humphrey Appleby and Bernard ...
I’m Sorry, Prime Minister, review – The Yes Minister universe has finally lost the plot - 2/5 Johnathan Lynn’s trilogy of ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. British politics is so absurd that sometimes only TV satire seems to capture it. Yes Minister, which originally ...
Our sitcom character Jim Hacker continues to cling on – as he takes to the West End stage, nothing has really changed When people praised Tony Jay and me for Yes Minister’s prescience, we accepted the ...
A sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, ran for 16 episodes from 1986 to 1988. A hugely successful stage play entitled Yes, Prime Minister was premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in May 2010. The ...
Stripped of the Westminster scaffolding, this Yes, Minister sequel unspools into endless trading of retorts and ripostes, going nowhere By Rachel Cunliffe What would Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey ...