School for scandal

There are many things that Eddie Izzard is known for. Doing stand-up tours in multiple languages. Doing month-long run-a-marathon-a-day efforts for charities, the latest of which was in January, involved 42km a day on a treadmill followed straight after by a streamed stand-up show.

Being the world’s highest-profile transgender comedian, a fact that still makes headlines even though Izzard first came out as a transvestite in the 1980s and now self-identifies as a trans woman (Izzard being in “girl mode” these days means arrangements for a brief Zoom interview come with a request that female pronouns be used).

One of Izzard’s