GUEST COLUMN
The last word
This month Star of Doctor Who and The Thick ofit Peter Capaldi
Iwas talking to someone recently who called my character in The Thick ofIt, Malcolm Tucker, a poet. That's a very loose interpretation of 'poetry', but, yes, Malcolm -the foul-mouthed government director of communications I played -did have something of a gift for language.
Even before I started work on the show, I was interested in politics, but you realise that there is now only a thin line between showbiz and governing the country. Without TV, politicians can't operate. They are celebrities in all but name.