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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To call Labour 'Stalinists' for proposing regulation is beyond absurd

Mind your back garden! The Communists are on the loose!

Help to Buy: Is another property bubble really a good idea?

They must have worked out that creating no extra houses will result in there not being any more houses

Freeze energy prices and cause the Apocalypse

If energy companies are asked to get by on £6bn a year, they might as well not bother

Syria: Something must be done – I mean, anything!

Some people object that we couldn’t have known that Assad would turn out like this

Tributes at Anfield’s Shankly Gates following the publication of the Hillsborough report last year

Take your time on Hillsborough. No, really

Don't worry about grammatical errors in a police statement. They’ll change it anyway

Numbers in a twist, Mr Duncan Smith?

The next trial is in Harrogate, the spa town with the lowest number of unemployed in Yorkshire. It’s like testing a raincoat by taking it on holiday to Saudi Arabia

Martin Luther King Jr

Martin Luther King? Not an enemy in the world

Funny how the kind of people who would have been totally opposed to the civil rights leader 50 years ago now want to claim him as their hero

Green MP Caroline Lucas is arrested near Balcombe during the anti-fracking protests

Caroline Lucas standing in a field waving a placard? Outrageous!

The MP obviously took it too far by meeting a bloke with dreadlocks who lives up trees

Mark Steel: Is Ed Miliband's Labour Party prepared to do or say anything at all?

Maybe the shadow cabinet have converted to a branch of Buddhism? The only time they've tried to appear decisive, was when they got into an argument with Unite

Godfrey Bloom was repeatedly asked if his remarks were 'offensive' - but isn't that charge a bit weak?

His language wasn’t in any way insulting, he kept repeating, because “as far as I know there’s no such place as Bongo Bongo Land”. It may be that he’s missed the point

Day In a Page

Like two peas in a pod: Mark Hix and Jason Lowe on cooking and photographing some of Britain's finest food

Mark Hix and Jason Lowe: Two peas in a pod

Samuel Muston watches the entertaining and surprisingly stress-free 'marriage' in action in the kitchen
The long road back to El Dorado: Colombia is rediscovering its ancient trade in gold

Colombia's long road back to El Dorado

Can a resurgence of interest in Colombia's original lucrative export – gold – finally shake off the country's powdery reputation?
Behind closed doors: The secrets contained within the imposing walls of the Kremlin

Secrets of the Kremlin revealed

It's been a symbol of Russia for centuries, yet many of us know very little about the Kremlin
Locale hero: Meet the location manager who can find the perfect spot for a TV murder

Locale hero: Finding the perfect spot for a TV murder

It's one of the most vital jobs in TV, but you won't get a Bafta for it… Gerard Gilbert spends a day with Nick Marshall, the location manager behind a new British adaptation of The Bridge
Exclusive: Red Cross launches emergency food aid plan for UK’s hungry

Exclusive: Red Cross launches emergency food aid plan for UK’s hungry

Welfare cuts and the economic downturn send soaring numbers of people to soup kitchens and food banks across Europe
Norman Baker is happy to be the odd man out at the Home Office: Immigration, surveillance, drugs... the new minister differs with Theresa May on all of them

Norman Baker is happy to be the odd man out at the Home Office

Immigration, surveillance, drugs... the new minister differs with Theresa May on all of them
Mind the pay gap: Does new research spell the end for one nation government salaries?

Mind the pay gap

Does new research spell the end for one nation government salaries?
In a galaxy far, far away... a water world capable of supporting life

In a galaxy far, far away... a water world capable of supporting life

Astronomers find the first rocky planet with vast oceans beyond our Solar System
Taking no prisoners in the kidnap capital of the world: On the streets of Caracas with an elite police squad

Caracas: Taking no prisoners in the kidnap capital of the world

James Brabazon joins the hard-boiled police inspector fighting an abduction epidemic in Venezuela's capital
Oat cuisine: Half of us now start the day with a bowl of porridge

Oat cuisine: Half of us start the day with porridge

Whether it's created with salt and a  spurtle, topped up from the kettle or ready-made, there's a way that's just right for each of us
World's best restaurant is a family affair

The world's best restaurant is a family affair

The three Roca brothers compete - and sometimes fight - but the global success of El Celler de Can is a credit to all of them
The 10 Best chopping boards

The 10 Best chopping boards

Planning to make a warming casserole? These funky boards are ideal for getting to grips with all that meat and veg prep
Heineken Cup 2013: French fancied due to strength in depth

Heineken Cup 2013: French fancied due to strength in depth

While back-room rows rumble over this competition's future, Europe's top teams can start getting on with the rugby - but it's hard not to look across the Channel for a winner
Ancient Sidon: Sifting through the city's deadly history

Sifting through Sidon's deadly history

Among its ruins, Robert Fisk joins an archaeological dig that could transform our understanding of Lebanon’s bloody past
The thinking outside the box: The Amazing world of online retail giant Amazon

The Amazing world of online retail giant Amazon

Fifteen years after its UK launch, the shopping site employs tens of thousands of people in areas where traditional industries have gone under