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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Mark Steel: It seems that it is being run by philosophers from the 13th century
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Come rain or revolution, it's money they all want
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Mark Steel: In 1989 capitalism bought all communism's best players
Brown can't even stick to his own Afghanistan nonsense
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Mark Steel: As with Iraq, the reasons for staying are sliding slowly into gibberish
Mark Steel: You almost have to feel sorry for Gordon Brown
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
If she isn't careful the 'Sun' will tie Mrs Janes in a deal like a record company
Mark Steel: Why should I be pressured into wearing a poppy?
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
The plan must be to honour the dead of past wars by starting new ones
Mark Steel: Just when you thought it was safe to come out again
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
This is what Blair does: he wrecks a place, then gets the job of uniting it
Royal Mail is to blame for broken society (obviously)
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Mark Steel: We can already see the 'modernisation' the Government wants from posties.
Mark Steel: We're all in this together (except when times are good)
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
The idea of shared responsibility only seems to apply during a recession
Learning lessons of 1352
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Mark Steel: Will you ever be able to opt out of paying for war you don't like?
Mark Steel: Iranian missiles and a PR triumph
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Ahmadinejad uses these tests to look powerful to his own population
Mark Steel: Cut this nonsense about whose cuts are most 'savage'
Thursday, 24 September 2009
Suddenly, no party thinks it can be serious unless it pledges to cut
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