Adam Macqueen is a senior journalist on Private Eye and co-presents its podcast, Page 94. He is the author of three counterfactual political thrillers featuring his ex-rent boy hero Tommy Wildeblood. His non-fiction books include the bestselling history of the magazine, and political miscellanies The Prime Minister’s Ironing Board and The Lies of the Land: An Honest History of Political Deceit. He has also been on the editorial team of Popbitch and The Big Issue. He lives on the South Coast with his husband, artist Michael Tierney.

‘Adam Macqueen confidently combines a might-have-been version of history in which Section 28 brings down Thatcher, rather than the later poll tax, with an It’s a Sin-style evocation of the era’

Adam Macqueen is a senior journalist on Private Eye and co-presents its podcast, Page 94. He is the author of three counterfactual political thrillers featuring his ex-rent boy hero Tommy Wildeblood. His non-fiction books include the bestselling history of the magazine, and political miscellanies The Prime Minister’s Ironing Board and The Lies of the Land: An Honest History of Political Deceit. He has also been on the editorial team of Popbitch and The Big Issue. He lives on the South Coast with his husband, artist Michael Tierney.

‘Adam Macqueen confidently combines a might-have-been version of history in which Section 28 brings down Thatcher, rather than the later poll tax, with an It’s a Sin-style evocation of the era’