I wrote this parody of Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear for NewsRevue around the time of the Newbury by-election in April 1993. Very little was known about Tony Blair back then; indeed I couldn’t even spell his name. I cannot quite remember what made me spot him as an up and coming politician; … Continue reading Beckett, Smith, Claire Short And Zany Tony Blair, NewsRevue Lyric, 23 April 1993