SHORTLY before I am due to interview actor, writer and director extraordinaire Johnny McKnight, I see the breaking news that comedian Joe Lycett has made the eye-catching announcement that, unless former England footballer David Beckham renounces his £10 million deal to be an ambassador for Qatar during the forthcoming World Cup, the comedy star will shred £10,000 of his own money.
Lycett’s beef with Beckham is that – despite having been a longstanding icon for, and a perceived ally of, the LGBTQ+ community – he has opted to take a massive payout from a regime that criminalises homosexuality.
