Alan B'Stard, Rik Mayall's infamous character from The New Statesman is back. He's here to lend his support to the Alternative Vote. Sort of. Featuring: Rik Mayall (Alan B'Stard MP).

Following the attempt on his life, Alan puts himself at the forefront of a campaign to reinstate capital punishment. But Sarah and Piers know his secrets, and the idiocy of the latter results in Alan ...

New Statesman Special: Who Shot Alan B'stard? - After surviving a carefully staged assassination attempt, Alan B'Stard finds himself in real danger for a change.

The time has come: despite no longer holding a Westminster seat, Alan has Downing Street in his sights - and it all rests on a series of splits over Europe.

Writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran explain the premise in the format of a comic letter: Sir Alan B'Stard, as we're sure you remember, met his untimely end in 2014, in a skydiving orgy disaster ...

The purpose of Alan's USSR tour is to spread the gospel of Capitalism according to B'Stard, as well as to acquire several thousand roubles by selling off video cassettes of his free-market sermons.

Alan's wife, Sarah, inherits a million pounds worth of shares, which enables her to fulfill her deepest wish - to leave Alan. But Alan B'Stard MP knows a politician needs a wife.

In the House of Commons conniving Tory Alan B'Stard faces a barrage of hostility from an Opposition outraged by his proposal for an amendment to the Social Security Bill.

Rik Mayall appeared as Alan B'Stard in a referendum broadcast for the NO to AV campaign, first broadcast on BBC One at 18:55 on Monday 11th April 2011. Series 1 - 3 were produced in-house by Yorkshire ...

The New Statesman 27 episodes Always eager to help improve the minds of the young, especially the mind of a very attractive Girl Guide, Alan B'Stard MP forms the young ladies' Recreational ...

The New Statesman 27 episodes The Molotov cocktails may be raining down on refugee hostels in Germany, but Alan B'Stard is more concerned with a potentially explosive plan which he has up his sleeve.