If Tony Blair needed confirmation that things can only get worse, the imminent defection of Alan B'Stard to New Labour will surely suffice.

The original starred the late Rik Mayall as pompous politician Alan B’Stard, and ran on ITV from 1987-1992. A satire of the Conservative government, the show won the Best Comedy Series BAFTA in ...

ALAN B'stard is a character synonymous with the bleak years of the Thatcher era, so it's only fitting that Rik Mayall has brought him back now - as New Labour appears to achieving the same ignominy.

The New Statesman (1987) TV sitcom ITV1 1987 - 1994 28 episodes (4 series) Sitcom parody of 1980s Conservatism. Tory MP Alan B'Stard holds the largest majority in the House: his interests are money, ...

The B’Stard Legacy will center on Arron B’Stard, the long-lost son of politician Alan B’Stard (originally played by the late Rik Mayall).

Following both B'Stard and Mayall's deaths in 2014, The B'Stard Legacy will tell the tale of Sir Alan's long-lost son Arron Conway, who's the operations manager of a medium-sized IT company.

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.

This was actor Rik Mayall in character as slimy MP Alan B'Stard, doing a walkabout in Bradford city centre today on the day his show, The New Statesman, opened at the Alhambra.

Step forward scruple-free Alan B’Stard MP – the one-man weapon of mass derision. The suave but infamously corrupt political big-hitter from Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran ’s outrageous 1980s ...

If you’re at a loose end this evening, you could do worse than watch the last programme in ITV’s Comedy Classics series, which takes a look at Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran’s 1980s sitcom The New ...

The new series follows Alan B’Stard’s son Arron, adopted by two Green Party activists in Welwyn Garden City, who has built up an international business and media empire. The production is currently in ...

We were delighted when the protagonist of The New Statesman (the sitcom) granted the New Statesman (the magazine) an interview recently. Alan B’stard, who is no longer an MP, shared with us his ...