Trump chose the wrong hill to DEI on - March 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - March 23rd, 2025

In the second world war, Navajo code talkers transmitted sensitive US military information in their own undocumented language. Which was nice of them, as their immediate ancestors had been dispossessed and destroyed by white settlers, and then had all their water poisoned with uranium. “Were it not for the Navajos,” concluded major Howard Connor, at…

If you’re reading this column, Elon Musk has messed up - March 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - March 16th, 2025

Wake up grandad and put your opinions in the pedal bin! If you even think you are well informed you are living a lie. What the world believes today depends on who is controlling legacy media’s last feeble news fronts, like the head-bobbing slaphead Jeff Bezos’s supine Washington Post, and on who programs digital social…

Trump has microwaved my Cornetto of hope - March 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - March 9th, 2025

I’d say writing comedy about the ever-shifting opinions of Donald Trump, the Speedy Gonzales of on-the-hoof policymaking, is like playing pin the tail on the donkey, but it’s unfair on donkeys. No donkey ever sexually assaulted someone in a department store changing cubicle. It’s 4.30pm on Wednesday and I’m done. Last week I filed this…

Trump has turbocharged the news cycle and I’m struggling to keep up - March 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - March 2nd, 2025

The smelly thoughts of Donald Trump bubble up like brown burps in the sort of bombsite pond Chopper bike-riding children were advised to avoid in 1970s public information films. Do they indicate concrete plans, are they designed to provoke, or do they have no meaning, like the gurgles and gasps that can inadvertently escape from…

Trump’s bullshit blitz has Europe on its knees - February 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - February 23rd, 2025

Was it really only a month ago that the pole-dancer patron, fridge explorer, Brexit get-doer, model bus maker, sofa-strainer, wall-spaffer, current Daily Mail columnist and former British prime minister Boris Johnson eulogised the inauguration of Donald Trump in the Mail, recounting how, as the “invisible pulse of power surged” from the battered bible into the…

A tale of two suckers: Donald Trump’s plastic straws and Keir Starmer - February 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - February 16th, 2025

It’s difficult to know whether to set any store by Donald Trump’s bleak and yet also often banal pronouncements, which read as if handfuls of offensive concepts have been tossed into the air by a monkey, read out in whatever order they landed and then made policy. Until it’s clear they can’t work. At which…