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: Nationalise railways – not banks
Inflated prices, extraordinary profits – that is the private utilities for you
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Mark Steel: The significance of a concrete hippo in Walsall
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
In a desire to retain their identities, towns are reaching for new symbols
So Karl Marx was right after all
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Mark Steel: Most papers have had articles about him in their business sections, commending his analysis of booms and slumps.
Mark Steel: The youth of today – they just don’t show no disrespect
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
What is striking is that university officials are now backing down
New Labour encouraged this avarice
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Mark Steel: Those people who couldn't see what was obvious are allowed to carry on
Mark Steel: Snowmen are costing Britain billions
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
It's fine to skip work to play in the snow. But strike, and you wreck the country
Mark Steel: You can't be impartial about aid
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
THE BBC is right. If they broadcast that appeal for aid to be sent to Gaza it would be taking sides. The Israeli Defence force could legitimately say "We've gone to enormous lengths to kill people, then you go and help keep them alive. How do you square that with your remit to be neutral?"
Mark Steel: Now we've all seen through the Israeli government's excuses
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
If the Hamas rockets are so lethal, why doesn't Israel swap an F-16 for some?
Mark Steel: There is one crisis we've ignored: the demise of snooker
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
Most of the early TV snooker stars were compellingly eccentric
What creationists hate is that we emerged by accident
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Mark Steel: If all species were designed, it was hardly by someone intelligent
Mark Steel: So what have the Palestinians got to complain about?
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
To portray this as a conflict between equals requires some imagination
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