Jeremy Corbyn and I are the new Christs - September 2015 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - September 6th, 2015

Apparently, the Labour party leadership contest frontrunner, Jeremy Corbyn, wants to dredge the decomposing corpse of Osama bin Laden from the seabed and then marry it. And he wants to live with the dead body of Bin Laden in Islington, as if it were his gay-zombie husband, in a sick leftwing pantomime of the heterosexual…

Time to embrace the horrors of your Spotify playlist data - August 2015 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - August 30th, 2015

As Observer-reading ABC1 cultural consumers, our carefully cultivated tastes in film, in literature and in oak-aged cheeses are the exquisite hand-crafted carnival masks that we wear as armour in the awkward middle-class dinner party of life. But the tragic consequences of last week’s Spotify data hack continue to unravel. And we wonder privately what could…

Can we be absolutely certain Iain Duncan Smith is real? - August 2015 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - August 23rd, 2015

Hair, teeth and ears all present and correct: is Iain Duncan Smith too good to be true? Photograph: ITV/REX Shutterstock Last week, the Department for Work and Pensions tsar, Iain Duncan Smith, was revealed to have fabricated a pamphlet featuring two entirely fictitious former benefit claimants, using Conservative party stationery cupboard scissors and an adhesive…

The government’s witch-hunters are ready to reform the BBC to death - July 2015 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - July 19th, 2015

Due to its legendary nose for news, last week’s Sunday Times was first to reveal the “eight experts” chosen by culture secretary John Whittingdale to “help decide the BBC’s future”, the Murdoch empire barely able to wait to share its horror at the venerable institution’s latest humiliation. And what a golden shower of talent Whittingdale…

It’s too late to save our world, so enjoy the spectacle of doom - July 2015 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - July 5th, 2015

In the middle of a week of record temperatures, as if unaware of the irony, the business community celebrated the consolidation of its attempts to force the government’s hand to agree to a third filth-generating runway at Heathrow, tipping all species on Earth towards extinction. Everything will die soon, except for cockroaches, and Glastonbury favourite…

A passport to my lovely garden? Dream on, you wretched souls - June 2015 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - June 28th, 2015

Late in my life I have become the owner of a house with a garden. But there are very few gardens in the area of the inner city where I live and naturally my garden has become a focus of envy from the deserving poor. Last Sunday I was in my garden, drinking fine champagne…