Author, comedian and dramatist Ben Elton found writing his autobiography therapeutic — but will the many famous friends he mentions agree?

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Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

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