Mark Steel

  • There must be millions who managed to forget about Tony Blair for the last two years, and now this dreadful man might be ruling us again? November 2, 2009

  • For some reason, it seems like the idea of "shared sacrifice" only applies to one side in society's divide between rich and poor. October 21, 2009

  • Britain's Gordon Brown could learn from the Iranian government that there's a simple way to ensure the U.S. will never ignore him again. October 7, 2009

  • The best opposition to racism comes when communities refuse to be intimidated--like when 2,000 people turned out to block the far right from marching on a mosque. September 21, 2009

  • The number of Polish immigrants in Britain is falling, but that hasn't made a dent in prejudice against Poles. September 11, 2009

  • With the British Open Golf Championship starting, the question is: Why is a splendid game allowed to be ruined by stuck-up, suburban snobs? July 16, 2009

  • After six years and a million dead, Iraq is finally back to the level of violence that existed before the invasion happened. June 23, 2009

  • Britain's Labour Party is in its worst state in a century, and all it took for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to save himself was promising he would "learn to listen." June 15, 2009

  • The Labour Party is coming out worst in the scandal over MP's expenses because they've pushed the idea that class is no longer an issue. June 1, 2009

  • Can there ever have been a time when so many people were so furious with the members of Britain's parliament? May 26, 2009

  • A scandal over the expense claims of British politicians exposes just how hypocritical the ruling class really is. May 20, 2009

  • Conservatives in Britain are up in arms over a proposed tax increase, complaining it will drive the wealthy out the country and hurt the poor. May 13, 2009

  • It's not the violence of the police that gives away their true nature, but their compulsive Bart Simpson-style lying. May 4, 2009

  • People like Bernie Madoff don't seem to realize the rules have changed and now their arrogance and greed attracts contempt. April 7, 2009

  • A British opinion poll asked if services privatized over the last 25 years should be returned to public ownership. Two-thirds of people said yes. March 31, 2009

  • Even Marx himself is in vogue, his analysis of booms and slumps the subject of stories in the business section of newspapers. March 9, 2009

  • Some middle-aged radicals lament that today's students "don't demonstrate like we did"--but they're being proven wrong by a new wave of protests. February 24, 2009

  • New Labour urged and encouraged every one of the practices that caused the financial crisis--and now they want a review to see how it happened. February 16, 2009

  • By refusing to broadcast an appeal for Gaza, the BBC decided to be biased not toward the impoverished, but toward the impoverishers. January 30, 2009

  • Will the UN ceasefire in Gaza stop the flow of arms to the terrorists? Because Israel is getting its planes and tanks and missiles from somewhere. January 23, 2009

  • Two hundred years after Darwin’s birth, furious Christians still despise his theories and try to prove the Bible is more reliable. January 14, 2009

  • U.S. and Israeli officials have twisted and distorted the facts beyond all recognition to justify the war on Gaza. January 5, 2009

  • He thought he'd be welcomed as a liberator, but Bush is despised to the point where a man throwing shoes at him is an instant national hero. December 19, 2008

  • No matter how far society moves from the "traditional" family, some people still seem determined to impose it on all history. November 20, 2008

  • Now that Barack Obama has won, Republican leaders claim to be reveling in "this great and truly memorable moment." November 14, 2008