Vote no to the thinktank pod people trying to body-snatch the National Trust - September 2023 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - September 24th, 2023

I love British traditions. Whose heart soars not upon seeing some drunk men chasing a cheese down a fatally steep Gloucestershire hill, or some drunk men burning their faces off carrying flaming tar barrels on their heads in a Devonshire village, or some drunk men dropping an enormous effigy of David Jason into a giant…

FROM THE STALINIST WOKE DIKTATORSHAFT GULAG OF Stewart Lee LATE SEPT 2023 - September 2023 September 11th, 2023

1. T-SHIRT FRENZY – STEWART LEE “I DON’T THINK THAT’ T-SHIRTS WAX FACE return to the crowded official Stewart Lee t-shirt marketplace with their most self-consciously cool design yet, cynically targeted at the ageing indie-hipster audience that make up Stewart’s delusional following. “I don’t think that. I think the opposite of that.“, is Stewart’s philosophy…

The Tories watering down protections for polluted rivers? I smell a rat - September 2023 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - September 3rd, 2023

Last Monday, the Conservative government announced plans to scrap the water pollution rules that protect rivers from environmental damage caused by nearby housebuilding. Some people accuse Sunak’s government of being a zombie government, trapped by infighting and incompetence in legislative inertia, incapable of seeing any task through. This is unfair on zombies who, given enough…

As Britain drowns in filth, the Tories want more toilets - August 2023 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - August 20th, 2023

There are important questions to be asked about lavatories, and Kemi Badenoch is certainly the Tory best suited to answering them. A report in the government’s Daily Telegraph mouthpiece announced that a new government initiative would see the equalities minister, Kemi Badenoch, appoint a Tory lavatories tsar, a task that would doubtless make her flush…

Radio review: The Reunion - August 2023 Church Times - By Edward Wickham - August 18th, 2023

AMONG the customary luvvie banter, there came in The Reunion (Radio 4, Sunday) a significant revelation. Kirsty Wark was hosting the writers and cast of Jerry Springer: The opera, the show which, in the early 2000s, progressed rapidly from Battersea to Edinburgh to the National Theatre, found more than a million viewers on BBC2, and…

This dying, sweary Tory government wants to drag us down with it - August 2023 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - August 13th, 2023

A cat got hit in our road one night, expiring all too slowly, yowling in enormous pain. People stood on the pavement in their sitcom pyjamas, knowing the kindest thing to do would be to run into the traffic and whack it with a spade. In the end, as the north London wokerati procrastinated into…