Saturday 31 March, 7.30pm – TICKETS ON SALE NOW BRUTALLY honest political correspondent Jonathan Pie attempts to smash the system from within at St David’s Hall on Saturday 31 March 2018 – and tickets are on sale now! Following a sell-out 2017 UK tour ending at the London Palladium, the world’s most frustrated fictitious news reporter returns with his sharply observed and hilarious satire of current affairs entitled Back to the Studio. Since first appearing in September 2015, Jonathan Pie (created…

  Independent charity Crimestoppers and the Electoral Commission are calling on the public to be aware of the threat of electoral fraud, as the UK prepares for a General Election on Thursday 8 June. The three-week campaign, which launched on the 1 June, highlights the tell-tale signs of electoral fraud. This includes intimidating or bribing voters, stealing postal or proxy votes, voting as someone else, tampering with ballot papers or postal ballot packs, or asking someone to reveal their marked…

My Dear Chums, It’s Election Time again and I have a number of comments to make.  So let’s start with our recent Assembly Elections?  I should emphasise at this point that I have no particular political affiliation but I have a number of overseas clients and trying to explain to them the outcome of the Election made me look at what really happened in a more critical way. The turnout was 45% of those entitled to vote.  This meant that…

LOVABLE Londoner Lucy Porter shares her personal revelations and sharp cultural observations in her hilarious new show Consequences at St David’s Hall on Tuesday 8 November. Starting at 8pm in the L3 Lounge, Lucy will cover all manner of topics both serious and trivial including censorship, generational conflict, theological ethics, home-brewing, quizzing, Britpop, and falconry to name just a few. After earning a degree in English Literature from Manchester University, Lucy worked as journalist at The Big Issue. Yet, her…

Soaring rates of violence against women and girls are an indictment of the Conservative government and a stain on the UK, the Women’s Equality Party said on Monday, calling for immediate cross-party action to end this epidemic. The Crown Prosecution Service’s annual report  shows prosecutions for offences against women at an all-time high. Prosecutions for gender-based crimes including domestic abuse, rape and sexual assaults, have risen by almost 10% to 117,568 in 2015-6. “The last year has seen a record…

Four in ten people still don’t know that they can register to vote online, a new poll conducted by YouGov for the Electoral Commission has found. The Commission is calling for everyone to support National Voter Registration Day, encourage people to register and help raise awareness of the online registration website – www.gov.uk/register-to-vote . When people were asked ‘It is possible to register to vote online in England, Wales and Scotland – True / False’ 60% said true and 40%…