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Wordaholics Wordaholics is a comedy panel show hosted by Gyles Brandreth. It started airing on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. The third series was transmitted in September 2014.
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Gyles Brandreth Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (born 8 March 1948) is an English writer, broadcaster, actor, and former Conservative Member of Parliament.
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Nick Hawkins Nicholas John Hawkins (born 27 March 1957) is a barrister and politician from the United Kingdom. He was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament from 1992-2005.
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Richard Hornby Richard Phipps Hornby (20 June 1922 – 22 September 2007) was a British Conservative Party politician and businessman. He was Member of Parliament for Tonbridge for over 17½ years, from June 1956 to February 1974, holding a junior ministerial position for a year in the mid-1960s. He worked for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency before, during, and after his career in Parliament, and was Chairman the Halifax Building Society from 1983 to 1990.
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Siobhan Thompson Siobhan Thompson is a British-American sketch comedian and comedy writer. She first appeared in a CollegeHumor sketch in July 2015, and left the company at the end of 2016. She originally came from England to the United States to be an archaeologist, but soon found herself drawn to comedy. She began taking classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade in 2010, and is a member of their Maude team Alamo. She is also the former host of the BBC America web series "Anglophenia", the co-host of the sketch comedy podcast Left Handed Radio, and has appeared in multiple television shows.
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Jay Islaam Jay Islaam (born 1982) is an award-winning English stand-up comedian, broadcaster, podcaster and social commentator.
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Chris Moyles' Quiz Night Chris Moyles' Quiz Night is a British television comedy panel game show, presented by Chris Moyles.
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Federation of Conservative Students The Federation of Conservative Students (FCS) was the student organisation of the British Conservative Party from the late 1940s to 1986. It was created to act as a bridge between the student movement and the Conservative Party. In its final years it became known colloquially as "Maggie's Militant Tendency", in reference to then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and to Militant, an entryist group active in the Labour Party at the time. The FCS was then broken up by the Chairman of the Conservative Party, Norman Tebbit, after one of its members had accused previous former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of war crimes in extraditing Cossacks to the Soviet Union. The FCS was replaced by the Conservative Collegiate Forum.
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Nick Doody Nick Doody (born 1972 in Morley, West Yorkshire) is a British stand-up comedian. He features frequently as a guest on radio broadcasts such as "Political Animal" and vox-pop television shows, although he is known primarily as a live stand-up comic.
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Mark Clarke (politician) Mark Clarke, born in June 1977, is a former UK Conservative Party parliamentary candidate that has been referred to as the "Tatler Tory", who is also former Director of the Young Britons' Foundation, former Chairman of Conservative Future, and ex-Director of the since-disbanded "Road Trip" electioneering organisation that bussed Conservative Party activists to marginal seats during the 2015 general election. Clarke was suspended from the Party on 24 September 2015, following the suicide of Conservative activist Elliott Alston Raymond Johnson who had named Clarke as having bullied him. A series of serious accusations subsequently appeared in several national newspapers about Clarke’s alleged misconduct and in November 2015 he was finally expelled and banned for life from representing or joining the Conservative Party again. His alleged misconduct within the Conservative Party led to national newspaper coverage about the extent to which senior figures in the Party knew about complaints regarding his actions, coverage that subsequently led to the resignation of Grant Shapps, a government minister.
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Cornerstone Group The Cornerstone Group is a socially conservative or traditional conservative political organisation within the British Conservative Party. The Group espouses traditional values as exemplified by its motto: Faith, Flag, and Family. It comprises Members of Parliament with a traditionalist outlook and was founded in 2005. The Group's president is Edward Leigh and its chairman John Hayes. More than fifty Conservative Party Members of Parliament belong to the Cornerstone Group, including several members of HM Government.
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Tony Robinson Sir Anthony "Tony" Robinson (born 15 August 1946) is an English actor, comedian, author, presenter, historian and political activist. He is known for playing Baldrick in the BBC television series "Blackadder" and for hosting the Channel 4 programmes "Time Team" and "The Worst Jobs in History". Robinson is a member of the Labour Party and has served on its National Executive Committee. He has also written sixteen children's books.
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Wilf Proudfoot George Wilfred Proudfoot (19 December 1921 – 19 July 2013) was a British Conservative Party politician and former Member of Parliament (MP). He was also a prominent North Yorkshire businessman, well known for his ownership of the Proudfoot supermarket chain and Radio 270. In later life he embarked on a new career as a hypnotist and hypnotherapist. He died in 2013.
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Young Liberals (United Kingdom) Young Liberals is the youth and student group of the Liberal Democrats, a political party in the United Kingdom. Its predecessors include the National League of Young Liberals (NLYL), founded in 1903 and the Union of Liberal Students (ULS), founded in 1920. The organisation was previously called Liberal Youth but went through a process of renaming at the end of 2016.
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Tory Shepherd Tory Shepherd is an opinion writer and journalist best known for her contributions to Australian News Limited media publications and websites, including "The Advertiser" and "The Punch". She has also served as Acting Editor for the latter. She has worked as Political Editor at "The Advertiser," as a senior reporter at news.com.au and as a panelist on the ABC TV discussion program, "Insiders". She joined News Limited in 2006, starting with a cadetship at "The Advertiser". She also appeared in Episode 6 of The Chaser's Media Circus, which aired in 2014. Shepherd has been a panelist at a number of events in the "Behind the Headlines" series of public forums, hosted by Paul Willis at RiAus, and is a member of the Mindframe media advisory group. She has described her main interests as "social justice, religion, and dodgy health treatments."
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Charlie Higson Charles Murray "Charlie" Higson (born 3 July 1958) is an English actor, comedian, author, and former singer. He has also written and produced for television.
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Paul Merton Paul James Martin, known professionally as Paul Merton (born 9 July 1957) is an English writer, actor, comedian, radio and television presenter.
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Glyn Mathias Jonathan Glyn Mathias, OBE (born 19 February 1945) is a British print and broadcasting journalist of over thirty years' standing. He was a lobby correspondent at Westminster for thirteen years, and is the former Political Editor of Independent Television News (1981–1986) and BBC Wales (1994–1999). He was the Electoral Commission's Commissioner for Wales (2001–2008), and as of 2013 is a member of OFCOM's Content Board and Chair of OFCOM's Advisory Committee for Wales.
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Iain Lee Iain Lee (born Iain Lee Rougvie; 9 June 1973) is an English comedian and broadcaster. His career began when he performed stand-up comedy gigs across venues in London. He subsequently became co-presenter of the comedy current affairs show "The 11 O'Clock Show" on Channel 4 and "". After three years at London talk radio station LBC 97.3, Lee resigned and, after two years presenting a Sunday night slot, hosted "Iain Lee's 2 Hour Long Late Night Radio Show" on Absolute Radio until leaving the company on 17 October 2011.
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Sarah Teather Sarah Louise Teather (born 1 June 1974) is a former British Member of Parliament and Minister. As a Liberal Democrat politician, she founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guantanamo Bay and was Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees. On stepping down as an MP, she joined the Jesuit Refugee Service as an advocacy adviser and was appointed as Country Director of JRS UK in December 2015.
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Public Opinion (TV series) Public Opinion was a television entertainment programme hosted by Gyles Brandreth, and produced by BBC Scotland.
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Compatriots Club The Compatriots Club was an unofficial grouping of British Conservatives between 1904 and 1914. According to E. H. H. Green, the Club "was made up of a membership of Conservative MPs, academics, journalists, and writers, functioned as a form of ‘think tank’ to generate Conservative ideas on the economy, imperial relations, defence, and other issues". Members included William Cunningham, William Hewins, William Ashley, Lord Milner, Leo Amery, John Waller Hills and Arthur Steel-Maitland.