FROM THE STALINIST WOKE DIKTATORSHAFT GULAG OF Stewart Lee MARCH 2023.1 - March 2023 March 6th, 2023

1. TV SNOWFLAKE TORNADO Snowflake and Tornado are both on the BBC iplayer now. Snowflake is here. & Tornado is here. 2. BASIC LEE The new stand-up show, BASIC LEE hits the road and the Royal Festival Hall. March 2023 Monday 6th March 2023 – Rose Theatre, Kingston – TICKETS Tuesday 7th March 2023 –…

Brexit has reversed the brains of Sunak and Starmer - March 2023 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - March 5th, 2023

The contradictions of the Brexit era confound comedy. Having publicly extolled the virtues of Northern Ireland’s access to the single market on Tuesday, Rishi Sunak was momentarily so engorged by exciting economics he forgot the ideological implications of what he was saying, while Tory advisers chewed off their feet backstage. The Tory Brexiter Sunak is…

The ghosts of rotten Tories haunt my routine - February 2023 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - February 19th, 2023

It’s half term and I am rewriting the opening topical 20 minutes of my touring standup show. Again. Damn Rishi’s rollercoaster ride. The current Conservative cabinet has had more lineup changes than the Fall, but will not leave as significant a cultural legacy, bar a similarly large succession of weighty books trying to make subsequent…

FROM THE STALINIST WOKE DIKTATORSHAFT GULAG OF Stewart Lee FEB 2023.1 - February 2023 February 1st, 2023

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Thanks to Nadhim Zahawi, the Tories’ bar of shame has reached new depths - January 2023 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - January 22nd, 2023

I was extremely surprised last week to learn that the Tory chair, Nadhim Zahawi, who famously used public money to warm the stables of his chilly horses, had finally tasted the fist of justice. Last year, Zahawi said: “I’ve always declared my financial interests and paid my taxes in the UK.” In fact, it seems,…

Prince Harry’s frostbite has taken the heat off the Tories - January 2023 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - January 15th, 2023

I have tried to avoid knowing anything about the revelations in Prince Harry’s book, so that I could use the privilege of these column-inch opportunities to ridicule something more significant. But the Harry headlines snigger from the newsagent shelves, elegant sirens shouting about sex and drugs but in the gruff tones of high-street newspaper vendors.…