Humanity's Last Hope
Kate Smurthwaite proposes her last gasp plan to save us all from this infectious late stage capitalist environmental death spiral. It’s a long shot, but nobody else is going to do it and what have we got to lose?
The award winning comedian, television writer, columnist and activist arises from the ashes of the pandemic as fierce, cynical and uncompromising as ever. As seen on Question Time, Newsnight and your local police barricade. Onwards.
Presented by: Kate Smurthwaite
Kate Smurthwaite is a British comedian and activist who often tours internationally and has appeared on over 2000 TV and radio shows from serious political debate shows like Question Time to comedy panel shows like Breaking The News. She has written humorous columns for The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Mirror, New Internationalist, New Statesman, Cosmopolitan and Stylist. She has also written for television including Have I Got News For You and the BAFTA-winning The Revolution Will Be Televised.
Kate is well known online internationally for her incisive political views and comedy videos as well as her political campaigning work. In 2013 she won a Three Weeks Editors’ Choice award declaring her one of the ten best things about the Edinburgh Fringe!
