A shocking modern creation, and a truly monstrous one as well,” wrote the journalist Simon Hoggart in the introduction to the ...

Their latest work is a dramatisation of A G Macdonell’s The Autobiography of a Cad, a satirical novel published in 1938 that ...

Now adapted for the stage by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman, and directed by the Watermill’s artistic director Paul Hart, the piece retains much of its humour, but the monstrous behaviour of Fox-Ingleby ...

Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s adaptation of a forgotten political satire is slick but dramatically frustrating Scottish author AG Macdonell is probably best known for his 1933 social satire ...

To Hoggart’s list we might add any number of present-day politicians. Yet Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s adaptation resists ramming home obvious parallels. You might detect the use of a ...

“Goebbels decided Cad was actual evidence that the Reich should take over Britain. Which is a pretty good review to get,” says Hislop. Born in Pune, India, in 1895, Macdonell, who went to Winchester ...

The Cad, despite claiming to be mortified and deeply upset by the failure of his marriage, has taken the precaution of putting a detective on his wife. Appalling people are often surprisingly charming ...

Scotland got their 2025 Guinness Six Nations off to the perfect start with a 31-19 victory over Italy at Scottish Gas Murrayfield on Saturday afternoon.  The Scots scored their first try of the ...