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.
Come rain or revolution, it's money they all want
Mark Steel: In 1989 capitalism bought all communism's best players
Recently by Mark Steel
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
So has anyone really been 'Islamified' against their will?
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Mark Steel: The most effective opposition comes when people refuse to be intimidated
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