NO Edward Aczel show would be complete without a prediction of the forthcoming apocalypse and Foreign Policy is no different, as can be gleaned at The Burning Duck Comedy Club in The Basement, City Screen, York, on Sunday night.

Have you ever thought that maybe your relationship with your next-door neighbour is in fact a foreign policy? No? Well, that will be lesson number one from the deadpan Aczel.

If we all practised good manners, what a lovely world we would live in, he suggests, before going on to ask: "When will China get a Blue Water Navy? And who cares? Can Russia ever get a warm water port and why Ukraine? What about North Korea then? And what can I really do for Britain if it can't do anything for me?"

"Join Ed to see how this relates to the current global maelstrom, whatever that is," says Burning Duck promoter Al Greaves. "The show is a proper chance for Ed to run through the major foreign policy conundrums of our age, in a strictly, linear and geographical way, while also gunning for a light, big laugh comedy atmosphere. Expect him also to seek out a bit of personal foreign policy, which everyone can relate to."

Branded “Britain’s greatest living anti-comedian” by the Guardian, Aczel is undertaking his third nationwide stand-up tour after joining the circuit in 2005 at the comparatively old age of 38. Performing comedy in his spare time as an antidote to his day job as a project manager for a marketing company in Aylesbury, he has since become a regular headliner around the country, as well as taking six solo shows to the Edinburgh Fringe.

Tickets for Sunday's 7.30pm performance of Ed Aczel's Foreign Policy are on sale at wegottickets.com