Have I got News for You

In the misty hazes of this cool Summer morning, most of us in the UK were discussing our worries of the results of last night’s local elections. In such dark and troubled times when it seems we have forgotten ourselves and Politicians are left to run amok, I turn to the one TV program that I can rely on time and time again to realign my sense of humour. BBC television panel show, Have I got News for you (or HIGNFY if you live in the fusty domain of YouTube) has managed to keep my political hands ‘in the boat’ through the last 15 years or so. Providing many a belly chuckle along the journey.

With a rather worrying tilt towards a Tory Britain in the post today, I found my self blindly grasping for a reassuring wheeze to lighten the load a little. It was with a knowing nod and a generous finger of neat Laphroig, that I came across this week’s episode of Have I got News for You on the BBC iplayer. Full of the usual Merton buoyancy and Hislop eyebrow-knotting, this episode is one for the politically weary.

As Uncle Monty so sorrowfully declares in Withnail and I: “Shat on by the Tories and shoveled up by Labour”. Hmm… What a different and rather frustrating state of affairs we are in now. I’m worried either way.

Still, plenty more HIGNFY to watch.