When Rachel Reeves became chancellor in 2024, she said it felt like “smashing one of the last glass ceilings in politics”. But the presence in her office toilet at the Treasury of a urinal, thought to have been used by Winston Churchill, proved that there are some obstacles that can’t be overturned. Reeves would just have to tolerate this symbol that puts the “pee” in patriarchy.
For Churchill’s Urinal, writer and actor Rosie Holt takes a frenzied approach to the problem. Her sustained mania, familiar from her viral pandemic videos as a Tory backbencher, suggests a one-person Thick of It, though there are occasional interjections from Michael Lambourne as the taunting Churchillian voice – and face – of the urinal: WC played by the WC. Talk about toilet humour.
