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Mark Thomas

Has been a performer since 1985, he has toured the UK and abroad, has made seven series of his own show for Channel 4, worked as a comic an activist and a writer. He still just about has a regular column in the New Statesman magazine. In April 2006 Channel 4 broadcast “After School Arms Club”, a documentary on arms brokerage laws where two schools form arms companies to show loopholes in UK and European arms control laws. The Irish government have pledged to introduce new brokerage laws by the end of the year. He will be publishing his first book, an expose of the international arms trade, in July of this year.