John Crace

The festival ends with a serving of satire, sarcasm and savage wit from The Guardian’s brilliant diarist and columnist. Across fourteen years of Tory rule, John Crace has seen it all: a bucket-load of sleaze and scandals, myriad questionable policy decisions, and an ever-revolving door of impressive* candidates trying to get themselves to the top of a sinking ship. But it doesn’t stop in July 2024: Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves and the Labour Party have had a distinctly bumpy start, whilst Kemi Badenoch and the Tories have slunk off to regroup in opposition. Has the United Kingdom's political landscape has changed once and for all? 

Selected from Crace's much-loved Guardian column, The Bonfire of the Insanities lights up the procession of governmental absurdities over recent years with his trademark mordant wit and caustic humour.

‘I lap up everything John Crace writes gratefully: I love his cleverness, his wit, and his heart.’  Nigella Lawson