An awkward encounter led me into a moral maze, with a holy trinity fighting over my Scotch dosh“The poor are always with us. So speaks the man who has not learned to use a whip correctly!” And also thus spake the unsung genius comedian Simon Munnery, i…
The Shaun Bailey photo really is a party exposé | Stewart Lee
The picture of the London Conservative mayoral candidate and friends sends a clear message to the electorate, but perhaps not the one they wanted to communicateSince the weekend, I have been running in my revived 2020 standup show in impressively Covid…
Touched by the hand of Ithell: my fascination with a forgotten surrealist | Stewart Lee
Ithell Colquhoun’s fecund, fleshy paintings were soaked in mysticism. But was she running my life from beyond the grave?I am a travelling entertainer. I spent decades in secondhand bookshops in shabby sidestreets, filling the sick-stomach void between …
You’ll be sorry when Gove puts the moves on No 10 | Stewart Lee
The Cabinet Office minister’s seemingly spontaneous gyrating could make him a natural successor to Funny Boris“Dance, dance, wherever you may be!I’m the Chancellor of the Duchyof Lancaster, and Surrey Heath’s MP,And that’s why I get into clubs for free…
Andrew Neil enters his broom cupboard years | Stewart Lee
Thanks to the arrival of Nigel Farage at GB News, the veteran newsman now finds himself among the mops and DomestosA woman I went on a blind date with in 1988 told me that witches she knew would consort with the devil at midnight, on the meadow by the …
If only Dominic Raab had watched Iron Man | Stewart Lee
The foreign secretary was in good company in woefully misjudging the Taliban threatMany of the excitable characters who impulsively phone talk radio stations without having thought through their contradictory positions are rightly horrified by footage …
Tory values? Urination, urination, urination | Stewart Lee
Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen knows the real reason for empty shelves is working-class people going to universityDid the Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen cultivate lagoons of urine in his rural Leicestershire constituency? In 2014, the Environment Agenc…
Boris Johnson’s crime strategy was another pile of mud | Stewart Lee
The PM’s talk of ‘fluorescent-jacketed chain gangs’ had a similar effect to that of a misfiring new Oxford Street attractionEarlier this week a pile of mud was dumped at the west end of Oxford Street. Then some squares of grass were stuck on the mud. T…