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: The anti-union brigade are just a bunch of hypocrites
The rage against the unions takes some spledidly imaginative forms
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Mark Steel: My advice to Obama – throw away the kid gloves
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
One result of the American system is that a third of health employees are in marketing
I think it's time we put Lord Ashcroft's money to better use
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Mark Steel: Who amongst us hasn't been forced to slip a billion quid across to Central America to avoid tax?
Mark Steel: You can teach birth control but you'll end in hell if you do it
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
There's no other subject schools can teach with their version of the truth
Mark Steel: No escape from the curse of 'easy-listening' radio
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Someone has decided that this rot is popular, but it isn't
Mark Steel: They believed what suited them, and ignored what didn't
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Iraq evidence was collected only to back a decision already made
Mark Steel: Just who do you vote for given this appalling choice?
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
The moment you think of voting Labour, up pops the unregretful Blair
Mark Steel: The viewers' right to Andy Murray
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
An NBC stunt showed me what getting rid of the BBC could mean
Mark Steel: Consider the risks before you send your cash to Haiti
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
All of us must wonder if we'll ever get our 50 quid back
Here is the news: a snowflake has fallen in High Wycombe...
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Mark Steel: Even the financial news has been about the weather's impact.
Here's one soldier who told the truth about this war
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Mark Steel: L/Cpl Glenton's crime was to say we were making matters worse.
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