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Stewart Lee

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The Donald and Elon Show is an unholy mess

The Donald and Elon Show is an unholy mess
26.01.2025 10

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Stewart Lee

If 2025 is anything like 2024, I’ll be back on the Baileys

Christ was born in a barn. This proves that he came for all humankind, as well as reducing his parents’ options for witty off-the-peg verbal...

05.01.2025 30

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Stewart Lee

Farage, Musk and Candy say ‘cheese’ – now British democracy’s toast

There’s a new photo of Nigel Farage and the Reform treasurer, Nick Candy, who partied through the pandemic at Lord Shaun “Bum and Boobs” Bailey of...

22.12.2024 80

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Stewart Lee

Flat-cap Clarkson only wants his nose in the trough

I read Andrew Michael Hurley’s new novel, Barrowbeck , in preparation for co-hosting Tales of the Weird, a timely event on the folk horror genre at...

24.11.2024 100

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Stewart Lee

If I were Captain America, I’d quit

The presidency of Donald Trump contaminates everything that touches it, like dogshit on the end of a pointed stick. Be careful, politicians of the...

10.11.2024 40

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Stewart Lee

Sick of overpriced gig tickets? Here’s the Cure

The first time I saw the Cure was on 29 April 1984. The Birmingham Odeon show opened with a set from rural Worcestershire’s pre-Raphaelite goths...

27.10.2024 50

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Stewart Lee

Starmer’s tiny gaffe has made him a sausage to fortune

Addressing the subject of Gaza on Tuesday, Sir Keir Starmer called for the “return of the sausages”, which was a surprise to those of us who didn’t...

29.09.2024 40

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Stewart Lee

The Tories have left the stage but their toxic cultural legacy is doing an encore

Hey-ho! It’s that time of year again when the opaquely funded Tufton Street-linked pressure group Restore Trust expends expensive effort seeding...

15.09.2024 20

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Stewart Lee

Oasis: a guilty pleasure without fringe benefits

“In Russia, nostalgia is regarded as an illness,” declared the mighty comedian Simon Munnery once, “or at least it used to be, in the good old...

01.09.2024 50

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Stewart Lee

It’s mating season on X, as Musk courts Trump

The dorsal fin of the tiny remora fish conceals a suction mechanism, enabling it to cling to sharks, which are full of urea and can live for many...

18.08.2024 10

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Stewart Lee

Britain burns while liberals check facts

Let’s get ready to rhumble! As heroic locals and beleaguered police battle to stop cocaine-fuelled hard-right rioters burning people to death, the...

11.08.2024 60

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Republicans beware: weaponising pets is a political minefield

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...

04.08.2024 10

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Stewart Lee

The end is nigh. For insects, bats, protest, the planet…

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...

28.07.2024 100

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Stewart Lee

Which Home Alone child star should everyone blame if Trump is re-elected?

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...

21.07.2024 20

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Stewart Lee

The Tory gravy train’s left town – but it’s got all my best gags on board

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...

14.07.2024 10

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Stewart Lee