• The Times Diary: Light blue for Farage United — but not enough MPs for a five-a-side The star of The Pink Panther is probably best remembered these days for his portrayal of the bumbling, dim-witted French detective Inspector Clouseau but another character, the barking mad ex-Nazi Dr Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick’s movie, has recently been revived for the London stage by the most accomplished British satirist of our own time, Armando Iannucci. The King, a lifelong fan and an accomplished mimic, is said to be able to recite Sellers’s The Goon Show sketches from memory and apparently needs no...