Stewart Lee
Rabble-rouser in chief
Our increasingly polarised and angry age wants not entertainment, but preachers
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party