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If we send the migrants back, who will cook my late-night steak? - April 2015 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - April 5th, 2015
In 1944 the London Evening Standard sent Betty Knox, of the popular music hall trio Wilson, Keppel and Betty, to cover the Normandy landings. Knox’s impromptu one-woman performance of their famous Sand Dance, a rip-roaring montage of ancient Egyptian imagery and racially insensitive soft-shoeing, was delivered under heavy bombardment on Gold Beach, and so bored…
If Grant Shapps was made by little green aliens, what’s left? - March 2015 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - March 22nd, 2015
Last week, I betrayed the homosexual parenting community. At Elton John’s insistence I tried to boycott Dolce & Gabbana, which was a great sacrifice for me, as other designer underwear makes my testicles look old. As I have been appearing at a theatre in Dundee it has been difficult to find any Dolce & Gabbana…
Privatising BBC3 would be as pernicious as Isis destroying Iraq’s historic sites - March 2015 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - March 15th, 2015
When so-called Islamic State destroyed historic sites in Iraq, I was wary of making judgments of other cultures, and gave these exuberant young men the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps shattering the statues was mere high spirits, like when Greeks trample wedding crockery? Or perhaps it was the fault of MI5? Of course, we also…
Who wants an effigy of a naked Vladimir Putin in their back yard? - March 2015 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - March 1st, 2015
‘Secondary ticketing’ might be legal, but that doesn’t make it morally right - February 2015 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - February 8th, 2015
Culture secretary Sajid Javid has said that ticket touts are “classic entrepreneurs” and their detractors are the “chattering middle classes and champagne socialists, who have no interest in helping the common working man earn a decent living by acting as a middleman”. Fill my flute with Dom Perignon, comrade, as we raise the red flag…