The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.

Blackadder starring Rowan Atkinson was a worldwide hit winning four BAFTAs and an Emmy. Elton is married to Sophia Gare (an Australian saxophonist) and has three children twins Lottie and Bert and youngest son Fred. He toured Australia and New Zealand with the same show in 2006.

Since then he has publiBen Eltond thirteen novels and more lately become known for writing the musical We Will Rock You (2002) and Love Never Dies (2010) the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. He was the leader of the British alternative comedy movement of the 1980s as a writer on such cult series as The Young Ones and Blackadder as well as also a successful stand-up comedian on stage and TV. He was a high-profile frontman of 1980s left-wing political satire.