I’ve just learned that I’ll be debating with John O’Farrell on Woman’s Hour tomorrow (BBC Radio 4, 10:00 – 10:45). He’s the ‘comedian’ who made such a poor showing as the Labour candidate at the Eastleigh by-election recently. He wrote in one of his books that he’d wished Margaret Thatcher had been killed by the IRA bomb in Brighton:
He wanted Britain to lose the Falklands War:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2283026/Is-Eds-pal-sickest-man-politics.html