Mark Steel
Commentator and stand-up comedian Mark Steel has presented several radio and television programmes, and appeared on Have I Got News for You and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. In 2006 he published 'Vive La Revolution: A Stand-up History of the French Revolution', and in 2000 stood as a candidate in the London Assembly elections.
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Legal Aid: Well, they are called the wheels of justice...
13 June 2013 07:10 PM
If a case revolves around an M6 bottleneck, who better to hire than Eddie Stobart?
Miliband makes his play: do everything the same
06 June 2013 07:10 PM
It’s daft enough that the Tories are scared of Labour; but Labour is scared of itself, too
Next we’ll be saying the poor don’t need to eat
30 May 2013 06:39 PM
Benefit cuts made Kenny depend on food banks. It’s just take take take with some people, isn’t it?
What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
23 May 2013 04:28 PM
This is the latest of a long line of things we can no longer enjoy because gays are allowed to do them as well. Why bother buying food when lesbian couples can too?
Gove’s lesson: spare the comma, spoil the child
16 May 2013 07:00 PM
Every parent cherishes those oh-so-fleeting times, when their child sits up eagerly in bed squealing “Please can you explain the uses of a colon again.PLEEEEASE.”
Have you heard? The immigrants ruined Britain
09 May 2013 06:20 PM
Of all those cockle-pickers who brought the banking system to its knees, not one has voluntarily given back their knighthood. At last the Government is taking action
Mark Steel: If every Boston marathon runner had a gun, they’d be safe, right?
26 April 2013 12:00 AM
This is the logic of the US gun lobby, although it might be tricky with sprint races, as every runner would instinctively fire on the poor sod who fired the starting gun
Mark Steel: Thatcher's funeral is over. Can we go back to normal now, please?
18 April 2013 06:07 PM
It’s essential for the nation that we quickly revert to our normal madness levels. Somehow we became so doolally last week we banned a song from The Wizard of Oz
Mark Steel: You can't just shut us up now that Margaret Thatcher's dead
11 April 2013 07:42 PM
If someone robs your house, you don’t say: “I disagreed with the burglar’s policy, of tying me to a chair. But I did admire his convictions.”
What did I learn from this class survey? Watch out for the postman if he's humming Mozart
04 April 2013 06:49 PM
For class to have any meaning, it must represent more than which music you listen to
- 1 Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
- 2 Mike Ashley wants blood after last season's trauma at Newcastle - and it won't stop with Derek Llambias
- 3 Richard Nieuwenhuizen death: Six teenagers and 50-year-old father convicted of manslaughter in shocking case of referee killed over a game of football
- 4 Exclusive: Newcastle's star talent-spotter on brink as Joe Kinnear sparks walkout
- 5 Vast methane 'plumes' seen in Arctic ocean as sea ice retreats
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