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
11 October 2013 12:00 AM
Mind your back garden! The Communists are on the loose!
Help to Buy: Is another property bubble really a good idea?
03 October 2013 07:03 PM
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
26 September 2013 06:15 PM
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!
19 September 2013 07:13 PM
Some people object that we couldn’t have known that Assad would turn out like this
Take your time on Hillsborough. No, really
12 September 2013 07:28 PM
Don't worry about grammatical errors in a police statement. They’ll change it anyway
Numbers in a twist, Mr Duncan Smith?
05 September 2013 06:34 PM
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? Not an enemy in the world
29 August 2013 07:03 PM
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
Caroline Lucas standing in a field waving a placard? Outrageous!
22 August 2013 05:47 PM
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?
15 August 2013 06:51 PM
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?
08 August 2013 06:21 PM
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
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