Mark Steel: How to get efficient or die trying
08 February 2012 12:00 AM
If hospitals were converted into flats, we could enjoy an efficient health service
Mark Steel: Still relaxed about the filthy rich?
01 February 2012 12:00 AM
I'm not sure I've read it right, but is the Labour Party AGAINST bankers getting million-pound bonuses now? Maybe we all misunderstood their policy for 15 years. When Peter Mandelson said he was "intensely relaxed about people becoming filthy rich", he didn't mean it was all right for bankers like Stephen Hester to be offered a bonus of £963,000. He must have drawn the line at £962,000. That would be filthy rich, which is fine and relaxing, but £963,000 is taking the piss.
Mark Steel: Palace life is all about losing on penalties
26 January 2012 12:00 AM
So began the sickening pain that compels you to stare into the middle distance for two days
Mark Steel: All aboard the London Eye, claimants!
25 January 2012 12:00 AM
You might as well say that some people are exploiting the NHS by being in intensive care
Mark Steel: A new yacht is the least she deserves
18 January 2012 12:00 AM
I expect Daily Mail readers in Haiti are busy sending off their cheques
Mark Steel: Let's hand out gold medals to big business
11 January 2012 12:00 AM
If we're trying to attract global companies, we don't want to let on we've got poor areas
Mark Steel: Do the elderly need a £14m bonus as well as pudding?
04 January 2012 12:00 AM
Almost everyone connected to the elderly or care homes has insisted the Government addresses the issue of the lack of care homes. So the Government has agreed to look into it. One possible cause they might find, if they investigate thoroughly and consult enough people, analysing everything with great care, is that they've cut the number of care homes.
Mark Steel: Just because you're an atheist doesn't make you rational
29 December 2011 12:00 AM
Once you make it your primary aim to refute the existence of God, you miss what's really fundamental
Mark Steel: I'd like to be taken for lunch by the taxman
21 December 2011 12:00 AM
You have to congratulate these companies for managing to pull this trick off
Mark Steel: Hands off our greedy bankers
14 December 2011 12:00 AM
It's the right of every Englishman to have his country robbed blind by the banks
Mark Steel: Let's ask florists for a credit rating
07 December 2011 12:00 AM
Governments should be made to recite their policies in front of a panel on TV every Saturday
Mark Steel: Unions just want the mums to pay
30 November 2011 12:00 AM
Michael Gove believes the strikers want 'mothers to give up a day's work or pay for childcare'
Mark Steel: Don't let's forget the rich are different
23 November 2011 12:00 AM
You almost have to admire the front when people can't stop swiping billions
Mark Steel: Oh, no! How can I pay the school fees?
16 November 2011 12:00 AM
Ignoring your children is really the only loving thing a good parent can do
Mark Steel: How to be a giant and still second best
09 November 2011 12:00 AM
Joe Frazier's problem was that his most celebrated opponent was much more than a boxer
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