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Stewart Lee: Move over, Nigel – it’s time for the Bin Supremacy

A comedy writer with a refuse receptacle on his head may be the only thing that stands between Britain and fascism. He’s just the man for the job

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Stewart Lee: Want to protect women and girls? I’d keep them away from Raise the Colours

A prominent flag-hanger has just been charged with making indecent images of children – as if the campaign’s relationship with the law wasn’t fraught enough already

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Stewart Lee: It’s not been a great week for denying climate change. But the global far-right tried anyway!

As London boiled in the record-breaking heat, the anti-net-zero ‘Alliance for Responsible Citizenship’ were in town. Let’s hope they remembered to hydrate

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Stewart Lee: Exit stage far-right – now Britain’s theatres are being urged to capitulate to Farage

A new strategy document is calling for the industry to ‘engage warmly’ with Reform. Why? So Robert Kenyon can remake ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore?

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Stewart Lee: Ireland is an island of fable and magic. It’s just a shame about the pogrom

On tour through glorious Irish towns, pubs and clubs, it was almost - but not quite - possible to tune out the race riots being stoked up in the North

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Stewart Lee: Quick - dangerous ideologies are storming the beaches. Has anyone reserved a sun-lounger?

At a Normandy D-Day commemoration, Pete Hegseth, the American Secretary of War, noted that beaches were stormed in 1944 and are being stormed by ideologies now. The two events share precisely one feature, and that is sand

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Stewart Lee: Who needs Barack Obama when you can vote for a Reform candidate who dreams of sniffing arseholes?

Revelations that would ruin most politicians seem not to touch Farage and his party. But if a crypto tycoon gives you £5m, maybe different rules apply?

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Stewart Lee: Streeting? Burnham? Who cares? Just get after Farage while he’s vulnerable

Labour has chosen the precise moment when the Reform leader is in trouble to ... have a massive navel-gazing spat about leadership. Still, it’s not like the stakes are high or anything

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Stewart Lee: Memo to the next Labour leader: for God’s sake don’t accept any Coldplay tickets

Nigel Farage has his £5m bung, and that’s apparently fine. But no leftwing politician can make the slightest mis-step with the press and GB News watching

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Stewart Lee: Did you see that story about the crypto tycoon and Farage? It bears repeating

Just in case you hadn’t come across it – and it wouldn’t be surprising if you hadn’t – here are the salient details

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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

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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?

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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

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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!

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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?

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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Stewart Lee: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse all work for Pimlico Plumbers

I heard the prophet of the AI-driven end times foretell our doom in chilling detail last week. It was Reform donor Charlie Mullins on LBC

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Stewart Lee: The rats are taking over Westminster - and there’s a rodent problem too

In Britain and around the world, the vermin seem to be becoming more visible. But then they recognise a sinking ship when they see one

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Stewart Lee: Neil Young is right – let’s keep on rockin’ while it’s still a free world

The great musician has donated his entire back catalogue to Greenland in an act of solidarity – though there may not be many takers for the 80s rockabilly album

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Stewart Lee: Entertainers can’t save truth. Or Greenland. But at least we can boycott the ‘Trump Kennedy Center’

Since the Washington venue was renamed, many veteran musicians have cancelled their gigs, and now Bruce Springsteen has dropped a new protest song. They’ve seen this America before

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Stewart Lee: Four hours is a long time in politics when the world is led by an emotionally disturbed gorilla

When I started writing this column, Trump was about to invade Greenland. By the time I’d finished, he wasn’t. Who knows what will be happening by the time you read it?

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Stewart Lee: It’s the Year of the Duck Rabbit - the two-faced mascot of political hypocrites everywhere

Wittgenstein’s famous animal optical illusion from the 1950s is nowhere near as disorienting as trying to understand modern current affairs

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