The comedy scene has long been subject to the same controlling factors as the music business. Both have been defanged and neutered, and only those artists deemed “safe” who tow the official line on everything are allowed to break through to mainstream prominence. Anyone not playing ball with Organised Society agendas, is censored, banned, de-platformed and banished into obscurity.

Here to shed some further light on this dynamic is ‘awake’ - and cancelled - stand-up comedian Alistair Williams.