Mark Steel
Mark Steel: I'm sorry, but we're not going to win the World Cup
Published: 07 June 2006
We should be able to have a brilliant time, regardless of how far England get
Mark Steel: And now for something completely different...
Published: 31 May 2006
Ken Loach's working-class characters are flawed, but usually exude a deep and genuine warmth
Mark Steel: You can't blame celebrities for what they've become
Published: 24 May 2006
The Beckhams must have had friends in their pre-celebrity days and know people who aren't on TV
Mark Steel: So which British values should we teach our kids?
Published: 17 May 2006
The idea of a constant Britishness is nonsense, which is why it has to be fabricated
Mark Steel: The real significance of Freud
Published: 10 May 2006
God must have felt like John Prescott when all his departments were taken away
Mark Steel: Prescott shouldn't have to quit over this
Published: 03 May 2006
It would be like jailing Fred West for failing to pay the VAT on the cement
Mark Steel: So which side is Algeria on in this war?
Published: 26 April 2006
It would help if we published a table showing how much torture you can get away with for how much trade
Mark Steel: Even school sports will be sponsored by business
Published: 19 April 2006
If your child falls behind in English, instead of being offered help, he'll be voted out by the shareholders
Mark Steel: Bush will soon be intervening in 'Pop Idol'
Published: 12 April 2006
America acts as if it is allowing the rest of the world to try out democracy as a privilege
Mark Steel: Here's a renewable energy idea: burn the poor
Published: 05 April 2006
It seems the more influence someone has over the environment, the less they give a toss about it
Mark Steel: The Government is trying to do a runner
Published: 29 March 2006
Maybe they will issue guidelines on registering rhubarb crumble in Jersey as an off-shore pudding
Mark Steel: The Gulam Noon curry paste Labour Party
Published: 22 March 2006
The tiny clique of postmen and teachers can no longer bully the ordinary billionaire
Mark Steel: A little plagiarism never did a student any harm
Published: 15 March 2006
All they have done is take copying one stage further, by swiping stuff without reading it
Mark Steel: They've lost all sense of how it looks in the street
Published: 08 March 2006
To them, this life of shifting around these vast sums is all so bloody normal
Mark Steel: Why do they keep on thinking Brown will be better?
Published: 01 March 2006
He backed the war, and everything else that Blair's ever done - except not resigning
Mark Steel: Playing philosophical with the truth
Published: 22 February 2006
Maybe you can't blame New Labour for having a dislike of philosophers
Mark Steel: The wonderful creativity of the British Army
Published: 15 February 2006
They're turning out these videos on resources that Pinewood couldn't have managed
Mark Steel: It's no joke if you're on the receiving end
Published: 08 February 2006
Nothing makes people cling tighter to their group than if they feel under attack
Mark Steel: Isn't hell punishment enough for blasphemers?
Published: 01 February 2006
Surely it's immoral not to ridicule a religion that refuses to allow anaesthetics
Mark Steel: New image, same old party
Published: 25 January 2006
The Shadow Cabinet should canvas for votes in the mosh pit at a Foo Fighters gig
Mark Steel: Vain and dreadful, but at least Galloway is original
Published: 18 January 2006
Next someone will say he's brainwashed Jodie Marsh to become a suicide bomber
Mark Steel: Bumper cars may be the future for the Tube
Published: 12 January 2006
The staff will be utterly flexible, so if they have a spare minute they can take over the busking or begging
Mark Steel: A corner of the Med that is forever English
Published: 05 January 2006
Is it legal to show 'Emmerdale' in a foreign country? Surely UN troops could stop it
Mark Steel: Has an anti-war campaign ever been so mainstream?
Published: 15 December 2005
The current vogue is disconcerting, like following an obscure band that suddenly has a hit single
Mark Steel: Heroes and monsters of history
Published: 08 December 2005
Most modern opinon insists everyone is labelled either a baddie or a goodie
