Event 41

Friday 8th November 2025 | 12 noon

Event 41 | John Crace | Taking The Lead

£16.00

John Crace – Taking The Lead – A Dog at Number 10 

A quick witted satirical memoir from the eyes of John Crace’s beloved dog, Herbie, a Westminster veteran with an insider’s eye. A chance encounter with Sadiq Khan’s Labrador landed Herbie a job working as a special advisor to Ed Miliband in 2014. Then he was summoned by David Cameron to work on the Remain campaign. He experienced the pain of working with Theresa May; was sacked and then rehired by Boris Johnson; was at Balmoral when the Queen died; was fired by Rishi Sunak and taken on by Keir Starmer. This is the story the politicians didn’t want you to know. Herbert Hound, finally, tells all.

in conversation with Boris Starling

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When: Saturday 8th November 2025 @ 12 noon
Where: Electric Palace

Description

John Crace has been the Guardian’s much political sketch writer and satirist for the last ten years and is one of the paper’s most loved columnists. He has also written over twenty books on everything from cricket, football, literature, TV, politics, football, TV, literature, politics and himself. In 2024 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Bath Spa University in recognition of his literary satire.

Boris Starling

Boris Staring is an award-winning author, screenwriter and journalist. His books have reached the Sunday Times bestseller charts for both fiction and non-fiction, and he created the ‘Messiah’ crime series which ran for five seasons on BBC1. He is a regular contributor to national publications on culture, politics and sport.

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