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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Mark Steel: Gallstones? NHS choice will cure you

You can see why they've announced this plan to change the health service, because it looks similar to the way they transformed the railways into competing units, and that's been such a success who wouldn't want to use a similar system to deal with triple by-passes and liver transplants?

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We owe it to bankers to feel their pain

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Mark Steel: Bob Diamond, chief executive of Barclays, who himself has to suffer the trauma of an �8m bonus, said yesterday that the bankers' "period of remorse and apology should be over".

Mark Steel: VAT: can't they lie any better than this?

Wednesday, 5 January 2011

This might sound smug, but I've done marvellously at sticking to my New Year's Resolution. I resolved to call George Osborne a string of rude sweary names every morning as soon as I get up and so far I've managed with hardly any trouble at all.

Through bleary eyes we see the fall of a cricketing empire

Wednesday, 29 December 2010

Mark Steel: The saddest thing about England’s success is that the Australians now seem bent on making the same mistakes we made in a previous era.

Mark Steel: Unseasonal apocalypse forecast

Wednesday, 22 December 2010

The moment a single flake drifts on to the Lake District, every news report tells us: "The police advise you not to go anywhere unless your journey is necessary", which is pointless because who makes journeys they don't think are necessary? Are there people who say: "Yesterday I drove from Coventry to Leeds, and when I arrived I realised there was no reason why I'd gone, so I drove back again, via Plymouth."

A clear case of attack by wheelchair

Wednesday, 15 December 2010

Mark Steel: The police like to set their PR department a special Christmas challenge, don't they?

Mark Steel: Next term, how to stage a sit-in

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

This is the age of 24-hour entertainment, so at night we can enjoy the sight of the Australian cricket team squirming helplessly, and in the daytime we can enjoy the Liberal Democrats doing exactly the same.

Mark Steel: Michael Gove's guide to social class

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Students are planning another protest today against the increase in fees, and you can tell they're making an impact because they're dismissed as "middle class". A typical headline about the demonstration that occupied the Tory offices was: "Rich rioting students." Because presumably, instead of advertising the march with posters the organisers sent out invitations, with curly gold writing saying: "You are cordially invited to smash up a Tory office. Dress code: scruffy but cool, carriages 6.30pm." Then waiters walked round with trays carrying little lumps of rubble.

Mark Steel: Ashes series are such an awful addiction my family have learnt coping methods

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

My Ashes: During that 1982 match that England won by three runs I was living in a filthy squat. We huddled around the radio amid the mould

Mark Steel: Being honest is no longer official policy

Wednesday, 17 November 2010

Now Phil Woolas has been banned from parliament for lying on his election leaflets, I suppose the Liberal Democrat MPs who vote for increasing university fees will all be chucked out as well.

Mark Steel: Do you have the strength for the 7.57 to Euston?

Wednesday, 10 November 2010

The spokespeople for train operators must enjoy themselves. Yesterday they merrily announced that overcrowding on trains is going to get "much worse" without a glimmer of remorse – the equivalent of the BBC announcing their autumn season by saying, "We've got a right lot of old rubbish on between now and Christmas. Still, there we are."

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