The union jack thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs. - October 2025 The Nerve - By Stewart Lee - October 10th, 2025

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DOUBLETHINK DOES DOUBLETIME - September 2025 The Nerve - By Stewart Lee - September 30th, 2025

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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…