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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A chicken reacts to seeing a man dressed in a chicken outfit

How dare anyone ask David Cameron to take part in TV debates – don't they know who he is?

The PM says he's done his best to ensure the debates take place, but all the other leaders keep getting in the way by agreeing to everything

The Ukip leader was speaking at a conference in London

All Nigel Farage did was construct a party against meddling foreigners, and for some reason it seems to have attracted racists

Who would've thought that blaming our problems on immigration had any downsides?

Sir Malcolm Rifkind leaves Parliament on February 23, 2015 in London,

Cameron is right — nothing keeps you in touch with the common person like being paid £5k a day

Without second jobs, will the Tories now try to raise the minimum wage to £67,000?

HSBC group chairman Stephen Green

If HSBC can help rich people avoid paying tax, why don't they help the poor avoid paying their fuel bills?

I’ve got just the idea for the bank’s next move

Bigger revenues will mean bigger wages for the Premier League's top players

Premier League deal: And still they don't have enough money to pay the living wage...

Soon these clubs will become countries of their own

Party time: Prime Minister's Questions featured in 'Inside the Commons'

The trouble with Parliament is it just doesn’t have enough privately educated MPs

Can’t these 17th-century traditions be a bit more, well, 11th century?

British Prime Minister Tony Blair (L) pictured shaking hands with Libyan leader Colonel Moamer Kadhafi on 25 March 2004.

There's nothing wrong with Labour’s modernisers except how outdated they look

With the return of Blairism, it's no wonder Labour has lost so much support to the Greens

Tony Blair meets troops during a visit to Basra in 2004

Give Chilcot a break – he’s probably still working on his inquiry into the Battle of Hastings

Or maybe the report’s taking so long because it’s being handwritten by Franciscan monks 

What a perfect tribute to satire the Paris march turned out to be

Perhaps "I don't agree with what you say, but defend your right to say it" gets lost in translation to Arabic

Dave Brown's illustrative take on the Paris attack for the Friday 9 edition of The Independent

Charlie Hebdo: Norway's Christians didn't have to apologise for Anders Breivik, and it's the same for Muslims now

It's as if no one in any Western country has ever gone berserk with a gun in a public place before

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New Yorkers raise a glass to Mad Men

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Housebuilders go back to basics - throwing mud at the wall until it sticks

Traditional materials are ticking all the construction boxes: they are cheap, green – and anyone can use them
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Daniel Brühl: 'Envy is very German'

He's got stick for his golden acting career and for his beloved restaurant - but Daniel Brühl is staying put in Berlin (where at least the grannies love him)
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