Non-fiction •
The Thatcher Papers (1980) •
The Little Book of Complete Bollocks (1999) •
The Little Book of New Labour Bollocks (2000) •
The Little Book of Management Bollocks (2001) •
The Little Book of Brexit Bollocks (2019)
Fiction •
Don Juan on the Rocks (novel, 1994) •
Drop the Dead Donkey 2000 (novel,
1994) (co-authored with
Andy Hamilton, after the British sitcom
Drop the Dead Donkey) •
A Planet for the President (novel,
2004)
Stage plays • ''The Ratepayers' Iolanthe'' (co-written with
Ned Sherrin)
South Bank and
Phoenix Theatre West End (1984) •
The Metropolitan Mikado (co-written with
Ned Sherrin)
South Bank (1985) •
King the Musical (lyrics, co-written with
Maya Angelou)
Piccadilly Theatre West End (1985) •
Feelgood (a satire on
New Labour spin doctors)
Hampstead Theatre and
Garrick Theatre West End (2001) •
Follow My Leader (a musical about the
Iraq War, music by
Richard Blackford)
Birmingham Repertory Theatre and
Hampstead Theatre (2004) •
King of Hearts (a satire on the monarchy)
Hampstead Theatre (2007) •
Caledonia (a musical satire about the
Royal Bank of Scotland and the 17th century
Darien Scheme)
King's Theatre Edinburgh International Festival (2010) • ''Fracked: Or Please Don't Use The F Word'' (a climate change play)
Chichester Festival Theatre and National Tour (2016/2017) •
The Accidental Leader Arts Theatre West End (2016) •
Alone in Berlin Royal & Derngate and
York Theatre Royal (2020) •
Kardinalfehler / Cardinal Error, a satirical comedy about the Catholic Church, currently in rep (2023) at
Theater Trier, Germany. Nation-wide tour of Germany scheduled for 2025
Translations and adaptations •
Nikolai Gogol's
The Government Inspector (translated from the Russian) produced at the
Chichester Festival Theatre, starring
Alistair McGowan • Gogol's
The Nose (based on the Gogol short story of the same name) •
La Vie parisienne (operetta by
Jacques Offenbach, translated from French) •
Die Fledermaus (from the German) •
The Arsonists (a 2007 version of the 1953 play
Biedermann und die Brandstifter by
Max Frisch) •
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (a 2010 translation of the play of the same name by
Bertolt Brecht) •
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (a 2013 version of the
Bertolt Brecht play,
Chichester Festival Theatre and
Duchess Theatre, West End)
Television • ''
Not The Nine O'Clock News'' (1979–1982) • ''
It'll All Be Over in Half an Hour'' (1983) •
Spitting Image (1984–1996) •
Incident on the Line (from
Tickets for the Titanic, 1987) •
The Way, the Truth, the Video (from
Tickets for the Titanic, 1987) •
Downwardly Mobile (1994) • '''' (screenplay, 1998; based on a novel by ) •
A Very Social Secretary (2005) •
The Trial of Tony Blair (2007)
Radio •
Fourth Column, a
BBC Radio 4 show for writers and journalists •
Electric Ink,
BBC Radio 4 starring
Robert Lindsay (2009/2010) •
The Beaton Generation Miscellaneous • Consultant to
Columbia TriStar Pictures 1991-1995 • Additional lyrics for the song "
Small Titles And Orders" in the
Chichester Festival Theatre's production of
The Gondoliers in the summer of 2003. • Consultant to stage musical Himmel und Kölle, Volksbühne, Cologne 2020/2021 ==External links==