Time may be up for the Tories, but their legacy of lies will live on - June 2024 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - June 16th, 2024

“It’s the lying I can’t stand.” That’s the close of the affair cliche isn’t it? We can forgive so much – incompetence, petulance, flatulence – but in the end dishonesty derails things. I suppose that’s why the nation’s 14-year abusive relationship with the Conservative party is finally finished. That’s all folks, bar an argument about…

Word In Your Ear Ep 644 - June 2024 June 15th, 2024

Stewart Lee – beloved writer, columnist and stand-up – was on the podcast in 2022 talking about the first records he bought, immensely funny and fascinating, and we’ve been praying for an excuse to get him back since. And it’s here! – he’s on tour again and his ‘Basic Lee’ show is on Sky/Now TV…

Through The Crack In The Wall: The Secret History Of Josef K. - June 2024 June 11th, 2024

Stew writes the foreword for Through The Crack In The Wall: The Secret History Of Josef K. Everything was just so intense. There was an alienation and awkwardness about Josef K, but that was actually very true to life for me. Listening today I find really difficult because it brings back so many memories, so…

From mayoral elections to Rwanda removals, Sunak won’t let the truth jeopardise his mission - May 2024 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - May 5th, 2024

In the psychedelic 60s stop-frame animation children’s television series Trumpton, all the characters have identifying proper names – the fireman Captain Flack, the state stormtrooper Police Constable Potter, and the mysterious dungeon-dwelling economist Gideon Pencils Osborne. The mayor of Trumpton, however, was known only as The Mayor, and neither his actual name nor his political…

Context is vital. That’s why I’m filming everything I say and do from now on - April 2024 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - April 28th, 2024

The terrible massacre of innocent Israelis by sadistic Hamas agents on 7 October last year has set in motion a dreadful chain of events, exploited by bad faith actors on all sides to sow division and hate. Last week the campaigner Gideon Falter tenaciously stage-managed a confrontation with the Metropolitan police by demanding to walk…

Andrew Neil needs to be more Vorderman, less Voldemort - April 2024 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - April 21st, 2024

The discredited television personality Andrew Neil, formerly the laughing launch-face of the seemingly Ofcom-untouchable, fun-packed, fact-averse, rightwing TV station GB News, floats contentedly in a foaming brown bathtub of bubbling human waste, his Weetabix hair matted with muck, and yet considers himself clean, the nutshell king of infinite filth. On 10 April, Neil told his…