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Katy Perry got into space but I can’t get to Norwich | Stewart Lee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/20/katy-perry-got-into-space-but-i-cant-get-to-norwich
Published: April 20, 2025 09:01
The pop star is back on Earth, the tech bros are wrecking everything, and my tour isn’t visiting that fine city of the east. Surely doomsday is nighA group of six women returned to Earth from space on Monday, including Katy Perry, the former wife of the…
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid just needed Trump | Stewart Lee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/13/pat-garrett-and-billy-the-kid-just-needed-trump
Published: April 13, 2025 09:01
In the court of King Donald, Sam Peckinpah’s flawed 1973 western finally makes sense to meI 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…
Orange Juice? Keir Starmer is on the Kool-Aid | Stewart Lee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/06/orange-juice-keir-starmer-is-on-the-kool-aid
Published: April 6, 2025 09:00
Instead of standing up to Trump, the PM is encouraging people who want to destroy our values to come and do it in our country at reduced tax ratesOn 1 April, the TV comedian John Richardsons, who you will have seen on many panel shows, announced he was…
I’ve got the message: security leaks are no laughing matter | Stewart Lee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/30/ive-got-the-message-security-leaks-are-no-laughing-matter
Published: March 30, 2025 09:00
Is it worth me writing jokes about Trump’s US? It looks like they are targeting even their mildest visa-carrying criticsDuring the Brexit era, it became obvious many comments under these columns were being placed by Russian trolls, with slightly strange…
Trump chose the wrong hill to DEI on | Stewart Lee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/23/trump-chose-the-wrong-hill-to-dei-on
Published: March 23, 2025 10:00
Deleting stories of Iwo Jima and other diverse US military heroism backfired. For subtle discussion of diversity, equity and inclusion, talk to Lorraine KellyIn the second world war, Navajo code talkers transmitted sensitive US military information in…
If you’re reading this column, Elon Musk has messed up | Stewart Lee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/16/if-youre-reading-this-column-elon-musk-has-messed-up
Published: March 16, 2025 10:00
Social media is lurching to the right like a tapeworm scenting offal – and X’s algorithms make it hard to find opposing opinionWake up grandad and put your opinions in the pedal bin! If you even think you are well informed you are living a lie. What the…
Trump has microwaved my Cornetto of hope | Stewart Lee
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2025/mar/09/trump-has-microwaved-my-cornetto-of-hope-stewart-lee
Published: March 9, 2025 10:00
The gadfly-minded abuser has openly threatened Greenland, Ukraine and Europe. He, and America, are the enemy nowI’d say writing comedy about the ever-shifting opinions of Donald Trump, the Speedy Gonzales of on-the-hoof policymaking, is like playing pin…
Trump has turbocharged the news cycle and I’m struggling to keep up | Stewart Lee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/02/trump-has-turbocharged-the-news-cycle-and-im-struggling-to-keep-up
Published: March 2, 2025 10:00
Maintaining pace with the US president’s wild outbursts and the mind-boggling media reports about him is no laughing matterThe smelly thoughts of Donald Trump bubble up like brown burps in the sort of bombsite pond Chopper bike-riding children were advised…
Trump’s bullshit blitz has Europe on its knees | Stewart Lee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/23/donald-trump-bullshit-blitz-has-europe-on-its-knees
Published: February 23, 2025 10:00
For the US president’s cheerleaders, the whitewashing of the deaths of ten of thousands of Ukrainians is a small price to pay for sticking it to the wokeratiWas it really only a month ago that the pole-dancer patron, fridge explorer, Brexit get-doer, model…
A tale of two suckers: Donald Trump’s plastic straws and Keir Starmer | Stewart Lee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/16/a-tale-of-two-suckers-donald-trumps-plastic-straws-and-keir-starmer
Published: February 16, 2025 10:00
The US president has scrapped paper straws because they allegedly ‘explode’ – a bit like the PM’s reputation if he keeps refusing to confront him on the big issuesIt’s difficult to know whether to set any store by Donald Trump’s bleak and yet also often…