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.
I think it's time we put Lord Ashcroft's money to better use
Mark Steel: Who amongst us hasn't been forced to slip a billion quid across to Central America to avoid tax?
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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.
Mark Steel: The best way to enjoy your New Year's Eve is to scrap it
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
This festival of weirdness is made worse by being so close to Christmas
Mark Steel: Where next in the battle against the establishment?
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
The Christmas number one shows that the people are not powerless
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Columnist Comments
• Hamish McRae: BBC's turn to experience a dose of reality
The temptation is to pile pressure on the corporation. We must resist it.
• Mary Dejevsky: A vacuum where Germany should be
Coalition is a glaring example of the need to be careful what you wish for.
• Mark Steel: It's time we put Ashcroft's money to better use
And this from a Tory party whose slogan is 'We're all in it together.'
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3 Hamish McRae: Now it's the BBC's turn to experience a dose of reality
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5 Carola Long: Could we please keep our clothes on?
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9 Julian Spalding: More central control is the last thing our museums need
10 Leading article: This is not the revolution that the BBC needs
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