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Nigel Molesworth, ‘the curse of St. Custard's’, was a much-loved post-war fictional schoolboy character who featured in a series of books by Geoffrey Willans and illustrated by Ronald Searle. The books also featured the headmaster Grimes, Nigel’s annoying younger brother Molesworth 2, his best friend Peason, the head boy Grabber and the school wet Fotherington-Thomas. Nigel’s main characteristic was his cynicism and in Nigel Molesworth’s Cynical Tendency he has, through the success of his YouTube channel The Cynical Tendency, started a Cynical Tendency political party and his school friends have all become heads of the main political parties. The play starts with a Prologue for those unfamiliar with the characters, and the action is then set just after a general election in the near future, the result of which was chaotic and all the players could possibly become Prime Minister but only with Nigel’s support. Nigel on the other hand…

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'Ian Strathcarron's energetically sarcastic farce is part satire, part revue sketch, part critique of the amoral mess we find ourselves in today, above all a wonderful compendium of all the tropes and cliches which adorn our current, seriously knackered, political discourse. You may well laugh until you burst out crying.' Michael Coveney, Theatre Critic 'An absolute disgrace, whoever is behind this should be shot' The Old Saint Custardian

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Ian Strathcarron is Chairman of Unicorn Publishing Group, and when not publishing he is the author of the spy thrillers Invisibility and Black Beach, the historical travel biographies Joy Unconfined! Lord Byron’s Grand Tour Re-Toured, The Innocents Abroad: Mark Twain’s Holy Land Revisited and The Indian Equator: Mark Twain’s India Revisited. He has also written the philosophy guides Living with Life and Mysticism and Bliss, the Sir Francis Chichester biography Never Fear!, the Bertie Wooster biography Crikey! How Did That Happen? and a Sherlock Holmes novel A Case of Royal Blackmail. When not writing he is Vice-Chair of the Society of Mediators and a backbencher in the House of Lords.

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