FROM STEWART LEE May 25 – As slippery as a greasy pig since 1968 - April 2025 April 29th, 2025

1. SAVE THE MOTH CLUB, HACKNEY, LONDON What with this and The Observer, why can’t we ever have nice things? Predictably this superb grass roots music and comedy venue, with real atmosphere and fantastic sound and sightlines where we shot much of King Rocker, is at risk of closure due to a dodgy housing development.…

Katy Perry got into space but I can’t get to Norwich - April 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - April 20th, 2025

A group of six women returned to Earth from space on Monday, including Katy Perry, the former wife of the Trump cheerleader Russell Brand; and the former Fox news presenter and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, fiancee of Donald Trump’s media lapdog Jeff Bezos, who bent Washington Post editorial policy to favour the New American Fascism ™…

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid just needed Trump - April 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - April 13th, 2025

I first saw the Danish Dogme 95 film Festen in 1998 when I was 30. You had to go to the cinema to see films in those days, when small boys ran barefoot on a conveyor belt to turn the reels, and it’s possible I watched its depiction of a family torn apart by violence,…

Orange Juice? Keir Starmer is on the Kool-Aid - April 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - April 6th, 2025

On 1 April, the TV comedian John Richardsons, who you will have seen on many panel shows, announced he was becoming a teacher, having already completed the training in secret. I was humbled by Richardsons’s decision to do something genuinely worthwhile and by his foolhardy bravery. How would he control a class of teenagers pre-armed…

I’ve got the message: security leaks are no laughing matter - March 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - March 30th, 2025

During the Brexit era, it became obvious many comments under these columns were being placed by Russian trolls, with slightly strange grasps of idiomatic English, cut-and-pasting blocks of approved pro-Putin and anti-EU texts to change the direction of the discourse. Their posts read like the computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but trained on 90s…

FROM STEWART LEE April ’25 – As slippery as a greasy pig since 1968 - March 2025 March 27th, 2025

1. SAVE THE TOMB OF THE EAGLES One of my favorite places in the world is the neolithic Tomb of The Eagles on Orkney. Instead of making it easy for themselves and just reburying it, the farming family that owned the land it occupied tried to run it for the benefit of visitors, with young…