Republicans beware: weaponising pets is a political minefield - August 2024 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - August 4th, 2024

The Ohio senator JD Vance has attacked “childless cat ladies”, going so far as to suggest infertile cat owners, or cat owners choosing life without children, should enjoy reduced voting rights. Donald Trump has already alienated Elvis Presley fans (“Elvis didn’t have 50,000 people and he had a guitar… I don’t have a guitar”) and…

The end is nigh. For insects, bats, protest, the planet… - July 2024 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - July 28th, 2024

Signs and wonders. Omens of black portent. Part of an American looney’s ear has been shot off by another American looney. The proposed presidency of the earless looney had been endorsed by Atomic Kitten’s Kerry Katona. A computer went wrong and everything in the world stopped working everywhere. On Tuesday it was reported that Chris…

Which Home Alone child star should everyone blame if Trump is re-elected? - July 2024 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - July 21st, 2024

The assassination attempt on Donald Trump last weekend is a tragedy; a tragedy for democracy, a tragedy for America and, above all, a tragedy for the whole world, because it means Donald Trump will be re-elected. And it is a tragedy for Donald Trump, who, whatever one thinks of his politics or his personality, is…

The Tory gravy train’s left town – but it’s got all my best gags on board - July 2024 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - July 14th, 2024

A female black rod has declared the wokest parliament ever open! Allow yourselves the luxury of hope. But while you must remember the poor, and the polluted rivers and those marooned on massive hospital waiting lists, you must also, at this time, think of the satirists. For we are the real victims here. The gift…

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…

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…