Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The original Whitehall trio: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds as Jim Hacker, Sir Humphrey Appleby and Bernard ...

British politics is so absurd that sometimes only TV satire seems to capture it. Yes Minister, which originally ran in the early 1980s, is still quoted daily in Westminster. So too The Thick of It, ...