It’s been a rough 48 hours, Solid State. After a mad scramble on Monday morning to fix not one, not two but three f’ed-up spotlights in the music section, I’ve recently been made aware that this ...

Eric Idle has been funny for a very long time. He gained fame almost 50 years ago playing pompous TV hosts and leering idiots as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. While the original BBC TV ...

Monty Python on TV, The Life of Brian on film, Spamalot on stage and George Harrison as a pirate…Eric Idle has had the most astonishing career, and he will look back on it all with relish as he ...