Mark Steel on The Independent

Mark Steel: Let's hand out gold medals to big business

11 January 2012 12:00 AM

If we're trying to attract global companies, we don't want to let on we've got poor areas

Mark Steel: Do the elderly need a £14m bonus as well as pudding?

04 January 2012 12:00 AM

Almost everyone connected to the elderly or care homes has insisted the Government addresses the issue of the lack of care homes. So the Government has agreed to look into it. One possible cause they might find, if they investigate thoroughly and consult enough people, analysing everything with great care, is that they've cut the number of care homes.

Mark Steel: Just because you're an atheist doesn't make you rational

29 December 2011 12:00 AM

Once you make it your primary aim to refute the existence of God, you miss what's really fundamental

Mark Steel: I'd like to be taken for lunch by the taxman

21 December 2011 12:00 AM

You have to congratulate these companies for managing to pull this trick off

Mark Steel: Hands off our greedy bankers

14 December 2011 12:00 AM

It's the right of every Englishman to have his country robbed blind by the banks

Mark Steel: Let's ask florists for a credit rating

07 December 2011 12:00 AM

Governments should be made to recite their policies in front of a panel on TV every Saturday

Mark Steel: Unions just want the mums to pay

30 November 2011 12:00 AM

Michael Gove believes the strikers want 'mothers to give up a day's work or pay for childcare'

Mark Steel: Don't let's forget the rich are different

23 November 2011 12:00 AM

You almost have to admire the front when people can't stop swiping billions

Mark Steel: Oh, no! How can I pay the school fees?

16 November 2011 12:00 AM

Ignoring your children is really the only loving thing a good parent can do

Mark Steel: How to be a giant and still second best

09 November 2011 12:00 AM

Joe Frazier's problem was that his most celebrated opponent was much more than a boxer

Mark Steel: Seven billion? That's not a problem

02 November 2011 12:00 AM

The mistake that the pessimists make is in seeing each of us solely as consumers

Mark Steel: The price is always right (whatever it is)

26 October 2011 03:00 AM

If prices go up, demand goes down. But not with university courses apparently

Mark Steel: If only we'd shopped around more

19 October 2011 12:00 AM

Huhne will deal with electricity prices by saying he's hoping for a mild winter

Mark Steel: Stop the NHS prioritising parakeets

12 October 2011 12:00 AM

The Housing Minister will say a local council built a town hall out of Wedgwood china

Mark Steel: Will we ever be rid of Tony Blair?

28 September 2011 12:00 AM

Tony Blair keeps popping back to annoy us, doesn't he? Every few months, just as you think he's slid into history, he emerges getting paid a million pounds for something, like brokering an arms deal with Josef Fritzl and you realise we'll never be rid of him. At least in the past, leaders did their damage, then disappeared, but he'll never go. It's like finding out the next leader of the UN will be General Franco or that Emperor Hirohito is to be a judge on X Factor.