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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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
The poor spend all the money. Isn’t it obvious?
28 March 2013 05:47 PM
It’s a tricky argument to pull off – the poor caused the debt so they should pay it back
Iraq: We can all change our opinion, can’t we?
21 March 2013 04:31 PM
MPs shouldn’t be so hard on themselves. They made a fully conscious decision to back the war on the scientific basis that it might upset their careers if they didn’t
Prince Charles is just what those Syrian refugees needed
14 March 2013 04:37 PM
The Saudi visit’s theme is ‘military collaboration’. Because it’s only polite to stick to small talk
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