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.
Mark Steel: Why should I be pressured into wearing a poppy?
The plan must be to honour the dead of past wars by starting new ones
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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
Mark Steel: The Poles might be leaving but the prejudice remains
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
There is an almost artistic level of irrationality about immigration panics
Mark Steel: People would play golf if the sport wasn't so snobbish
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Dress codes ban denim and inist on jackets and ties in the bar
The macabre details of Michael Jackson's death
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Mark Steel: Within minutes of the first reports, it was clear the world was going mad. And it's still going on.
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