When I agreed to be interviewed by Marcus Brigstocke of ‘Have I Got News For You’ fame in Ampthill Library, I was nervous. The thought "now, why did you go and agree to that"? did cross my mind a few hundred times between agreeing and the actual day.

Meeting him did endorse a personal viewpoint – that to be a good comedian takes a certain amount of searing intellect - he has obviously thought about politics very deeply.

He will probably rip me to bits in the programme which comes out on 1st of June, and the 8th; however if he does, so be it.

I can be nothing other than who I am. If I had tried to be someone I wasn’t then I would have fallen flat on my face.

I actually enjoyed the interview, his questions were probing but honest. Our one moment of disagreement came when I announced, that on the issue of abortion, I had found Sky to be much fairer and balanced in its reporting than the BBC.

He blew a mini Murdoch fuse at that one!

I will await, with baited breath and noose in hand, for the final programme.

I opened Elstow Village May Festival at the Abbey on Saturday. England at its very best.

Unbeknown to me before I arrived, Jeremy the Vicar had written to the Bedfordshire On Sunday to support the 20 weeks campaign. 



Given that the official representatives from the Church of England had told me only a week ago in a meeting that the Church “had no view on the Embryo”, and when I quoted a Psalm to the contrary said “that’s just words, mere poetry”, I was relieved to find a clergyman with a view. Thanks for your support Jeremy, excellent letter.

Day by day I become more disappointed with the established Church, and even more disappointed with the Bishops who sit in the Lords. What purpose do they serve when they don’t have a view on something as important as abortion?