Stewart Lee

Articles by Stewart Lee

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The big art sell-off

  • 02 August 2010
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The effect of David Cameron’s “big society” will be to drive artists and performers into the arms of corporate sponsors interested only in big names and easy publicity pickings.

When a knob joke is better than Brecht

  • 22 August 2005

Comedy has ruined Edinburgh. The Fringe, formerly a venue for alternative theatre, is now merely a showcase for gagsters who wannabe on telly. Or so goes the criticism. Stewart Lee, writer/director of Jerry Springer: the opera, doesn't think much of it

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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