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Stewart Lee: Did you say ‘intifada’? The language police would like a word

Jan 2, 2026

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Stewart Lee: Did you say ‘intifada’? The language police would like a word

Some protests are forbidden. Others – such as flying an England flag outside an Asian person’s front door – are not. How’s a poor copper to know the difference?

Stewart Lee: Trump’s BBC lawsuit isn’t about money. It’s about destroying a news provider

Dec 19, 2025

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Stewart Lee: Trump’s BBC lawsuit isn’t about money. It’s about destroying a news provider

The White House’s dead-eyed shark has monetised his presidency so well that he can pay whatever it costs to discredit institutions that may threaten him

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

Dec 12, 2025

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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

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Stewart Lee: AI has worked out how to blackmail its human enemies. So why is it still so useless at shopping?

Dec 5, 2025

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Stewart Lee: AI has worked out how to blackmail its human enemies. So why is it still so useless at shopping?

If a leading scientist is right, we have five years until we’re being sextorted by smart kettles and facing the ‘ultimate risk’ to our existence – and yet AI can't recognise an album format. It almost makes you nostalgic for the 80s

Stewart Lee: Had youthful Farage’s youthful alleged racism story concerned a leftist figure, it would not have been disappeared

Nov 28, 2025

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Stewart Lee: Had youthful Farage’s youthful alleged racism story concerned a leftist figure, it would not have been disappeared

You would think the alleged indiscretions of the schoolboy Nigel Farage would have drawn outrage from a just, impartial British media. Strangely, it seems they have not

Stewart Lee: A pile of toxic filth has been dumped in the British countryside. It put me in mind of Nigel Farage

Nov 21, 2025

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Stewart Lee: A pile of toxic filth has been dumped in the British countryside. It put me in mind of Nigel Farage

The fly-tipping in Oxfordshire is threatening the health of the local river – just as 25 years of platforming the Reform leader in the media has polluted our national discourse

Stewart Lee: Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would

Nov 14, 2025

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Stewart Lee: Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would

I may seem like an unlikely candidate. But at least I understand that the first step to facing down the organisation’s malevolent opponents is to stop appeasing them

Stewart Lee: Using Grok is like believing what your farting uncle says at Christmas

Nov 7, 2025

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Stewart Lee: Using Grok is like believing what your farting uncle says at Christmas

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot is so drunkenly, transparently biased that it would be funny – if it weren’t a mortal threat to democracy

Stewart Lee: From Charlie Kirk to CCHQ, the right has realised they can lie and not be challenged. So let’s change that

Oct 31, 2025

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Stewart Lee: From Charlie Kirk to CCHQ, the right has realised they can lie and not be challenged. So let’s change that

Is the problem with modern politics that voters are stupid, or is it that no one pushes back against the populist acts that mislead them? And is it wrong to think the government should act?

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

Oct 24, 2025

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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

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Stewart Lee: Homosexuals and feminists face execution in Saudi. Now they’ve got the standups on to them as well

Oct 17, 2025

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Stewart Lee: Homosexuals and feminists face execution in Saudi. Now they’ve got the standups on to them as well

On the centenary of his birth, what would legendary satirist Lenny Bruce and a generation he inspired make of those on stage at the Riyadh comedy festival?

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

Oct 10, 2025

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Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

Stewart Lee: Here’s how Trump's 'Consequential Culture' works...

Sep 30, 2025

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Stewart Lee: Here’s how Trump's 'Consequential Culture' works...

For the very first of his weekly columns for the Nerve, the comedian unpicks how Orwell’s Doublethink is doing doubletime today.

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