What exactly do Ian Botham and John Cleese offer ‘global Britain’?

The ex-cricketer and lapsed comedian have found new work in politics and TV respectively, but they are trading off old successes and even older opinionsIt’s easy to find out when Ian Botham last played cricket, because there is Wisden, but it’s hard to find out when John Cleese was last funny. Some people think he had some moderately amusing lines in A Fish Called Wanda (1988). There was a period in the 2010s when he had an idiosyncratic vendetta and went around town saying “Mi