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Stewart Lee: Palantir’s predecessors were confronted on Cable Street. It’s harder to fight fascism now

Stewart Lee: Palantir’s predecessors were confronted on Cable Street. It’s harder to fight fascism now

Even in a country on high alert for intolerance, the totalitarian tech firm is still advancing silently into the heart of the British state

Stewart Lee

Stewart Lee: Epstein’s evil legacy destroys everything it touches. Everything except Palantir

Stewart Lee: Epstein’s evil legacy destroys everything it touches. Everything except Palantir

Mandelson, and by extension Starmer, are tainted by proximity to the abuse scandal. But the paedophile was a close associate of Peter Thiel too. Why don’t we talk about that?

Stewart Lee

Stewart Lee: A weak parent who couldn’t report their child to the police? Sounds like Queen Elizabeth II

Stewart Lee: A weak parent who couldn’t report their child to the police? Sounds like Queen Elizabeth II

A mood seems to be growing on the right of politics to deport the relatives of serious criminals. But of course they don’t mean in every case

Stewart Lee: Kanye West’s banned. Meanwhile certain people get away with antisemitism scot-free

Stewart Lee: Kanye West’s banned. Meanwhile certain people get away with antisemitism scot-free

Obviously, rap stars advertising swastika T-shirts during the Super Bowl is unacceptable. There seem to be different rules for another kind of racism in Britain

Stewart Lee

Stewart Lee: Farage already has his dog-whistle excuse prepared in case he loses - ‘family voting’

Stewart Lee: Farage already has his dog-whistle excuse prepared in case he loses - ‘family voting’

What do you do if you’ve been beaten hollow by a Green female plumber and people don’t like your links to Trump? Undermine faith in democracy!

Stewart Lee

Stewart Lee: No more Cameo videos, no more crypto... Nigel will have to launch Farage’s far-right sex shop

Stewart Lee: No more Cameo videos, no more crypto... Nigel will have to launch Farage’s far-right sex shop

What will Reform’s leader and party do for money now that their dubious income streams are being shut down?

Stewart Lee

Stewart Lee: Trump’s claims about misleading editing seem to have been misleadingly edited by the Telegraph

Stewart Lee: Trump’s claims about misleading editing seem to have been misleadingly edited by the Telegraph

The president undermined his BBC libel suit by falsely claiming the corporation used AI. Everyone spotted the story - except, strangely, the paper that stirred the row up in the first place

Stewart Lee

Stewart Lee: Blair. Hegseth. Disinformation. Hats. This post-truth news cycle is mutilizing our brains

Stewart Lee: Blair. Hegseth. Disinformation. Hats. This post-truth news cycle is mutilizing our brains

How are we supposed to cope with the tidal wave of lies, posturing and mangled English that is the byproduct of Trump at war?

Stewart Lee

Stewart Lee: They’re saying Trump has ‘lit the signal fire for Armageddon’. Still, could be worse!

Stewart Lee: They’re saying Trump has ‘lit the signal fire for Armageddon’. Still, could be worse!

If it’s true that the Iran war will mark ‘Jesus’s return to Earth’, as US forces have been told, at least that would suggest there was some kind of plan

Stewart Lee

Stewart Lee: Do you want to make a splash? Then use the right’s social media latrine

Stewart Lee: Do you want to make a splash? Then use the right’s social media latrine

Have you engineered a Gotcha! moment? Have you shorn it of context? Then all you need to do is drop it from a height and make a mess online

Stewart Lee

Stewart Lee: Remember when America used to destroy democracy in style? Those were the days

Stewart Lee: Remember when America used to destroy democracy in style? Those were the days

The CIA once promoted abstract expressionism as a tool of regime change. Now we have AI videos of Trump bombing people with faeces

Stewart Lee

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Stewart Lee: How do all these rightwing astroturfers get on the airwaves? Doesn’t anyone Google them first?

Stewart Lee: How do all these rightwing astroturfers get on the airwaves? Doesn’t anyone Google them first?

From Aston Villa to George Abaraonye, every time the culture wars flare up, there’s a ‘concerned citizen’ from a previously unheard-of pressure group popping up. A little scepticism is needed

Stewart Lee

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