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: Please stop jazzing up our history
Next we'll have a group of lesbians coming into Cromwell's tent
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Mark Steel: We look back to the Stone Age and think it embodied 'traditional' values
Mark Steel: The losers who hate to love Obama
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Now he has won, Republican spokesmen are saying it's great
Mark Steel: It's not about great men, but those who put them there
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Millions now believe that their actions can change the world
Mark Steel: I'm frozen with fear – could Obama still lose the election?
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
The Republicans have had the worst campaign possible. It should be all over
Mark Steel: It's all poor people's fault, isn't it?
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
All economists know that banking crashes are caused by Somalian fishermen
Mark Steel: Workers unite! And turn Balmoral into an allotment
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Someone should have been reading Marx...
Mark Steel: The curse of these demonic call centres
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Eventually, you slide into a trance, barely aware of your own existence
Mark Steel: Quick! These bankers need rescuing
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
The next move, presumably, will be to nationalise the country's gambling debts. To revive confidence amongst blokes in betting offices, the Government will hand over £300bn to cover the money they've lost. Then a leading gambler will be quoted as saying: "This package goes some way towards restoring calm. The last week has been horrendous. One of my friends lost a ton on an 8-1 shot he'd been assured was a banker by a minicab driver."
Mark Steel: At least the City doesn't go on strike
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
You almost want to shake their hands in admiration. The total amount of city bonuses for the last year, it turns out, is £12.6bn. Which is more, apparently, than the nation's entire budget for transport. And you can be certain some bankers will hear that and think: "That's outrageous – if the economy didn't waste all that money on buses we could be paid what we're really worth."
Mark Steel: Bankers should bail themselves out
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
Thirty years we've had, of unfathomably wealthy bankers and dealers being justified as part of the free market.
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