The comedian Robert Webb has a bold plan to reform politics: compulsory nudity in the Commons chamber. Robert Webb has a naked ambition Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock“Politicians need more humility, so nudity would help them to see each other as vulnerable fellow humans,” Webb tells Reader’s Digest. “I once spent some time with nudists and although it felt strange to be chatting about mortgages with no clothes on, a mutual acceptance of our wobbly, sticking-out bits was a good way to feel compassion for each other.”I can’t think of many MPs with the naked ambition to go for it, though; not even Bernard Jenkin, the most famous naturist in parliament. And as Webb, below, admits: “Broadcasts would go back to being radio-only.”A downside of being a famous animal expert, says Chris Packham…

Source: The Times October 17, 2017 23:01 UTC