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The trusty tarot has revealed the Tories’ future to me

At a time of unprecedented political turmoil in the UK, I have been asked to play Nostradamus…

The Guardian - UK

The Tories’ Santa tax has brought Christmas to its knees

What good is goodwill, say the Conservatives, if it can’t be monetised?

The Guardian - UK

From jungles to bras, Tory sleaze is lurking

As Matt Hancock and Michelle Mone are proving, the pandemic was just one big payday for the Conservatives

The Guardian - UK

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Armando Iannucci: ‘I have ADHD, which explains why I can only work to deadlines’

The satirist on who makes him laugh, Tory attacks on the BBC, and the physics behind his sci-fi sitcom

The Guardian - UK

Rise up, twitchers! The thinktanks are coming

Time is running out to protect the RSPB and National Trust from climate crisis-denying, neoliberal lobbyists and their nature-hating Tory cronies

The Guardian - UK

Stewart Lee review – underpowered show still stronger than most

Less richly structured than his best work, this looser-limbed evening has given the comic wing-spreading room to experiment

The Guardian - UK

Stewart Lee: Basic Lee at the Leicester Square Theatre review - classic Lee, sometimes too classic

Easy gags and brilliant ideas combine to make this a show for the faithful, if not necessarily one to win new converts

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‘We need an intervention’: five ways to fix the Edinburgh festival fringe

Too pricy, too elitist, just too big? After the criticisms of this year’s event, a panel of festival regulars consider the way forward for Edinburgh’s summer spectacular

The Guardian - UK

Bubble Rap: How the Queen’s departure really felt in London

We all know where we were when we heard the sad news. Susie Lau was at a comedy show… and in those first hours laughter seemed like the best medicine

Evening Standard

Ricky Gervais appears to respond after Stewart Lee trashes After Life

Lee had described the Netflix series as ‘one of the worst things that’s ever been made by a human’

The Independent UK

Ricky Gervais appears to respond after Stewart Lee trashes After Life

Lee had described the Netflix series as ‘one of the worst things that’s ever been made by a human’

The Independent UK

Pity poor Britons playing Liz Truss’s lottery

The new prime minister’s cabinet is comprised of people who were born to win, but for the rest of us, life is just a gamble

The Guardian - UK

Stewart Lee says Ricky Gervais’s ‘abysmal’ After Life is ‘one of the worst things ever made by a human’

‘The Office’ creator’s Netflix comedy concluded its third season earlier this year

The Independent UK

Tam Cowan: Barry Ferguson's Rangers prediction was more off than Rangers' aim

It was such a one-sided affair at Parkhead that supporters who returned to the stadium for the visit of Real Madrid must have experienced a real sense of deja vu…

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The Guardian - UK

‘My life would be very different without the Fall’: Stewart Lee’s honest playlist

The comedian is still inspired by Mark E Smith but has finally fallen out of love with Morrissey. But whose sandwiches did he once steal?

The Guardian - UK

At last, the Tories prove that Brexit has polluted the UK

Having raw sewage lapping around the UK is a fitting symbol of our freedom from the tyranny of EU red tape

The Guardian - UK

National Trust members: get ready to choke on your carrot cake

The creeping pushback against the ‘woke’ won’t stop until we’re neck-deep in deregulated dystopia

The Guardian - UK

Tall stories: performers on their wildest Edinburgh moments

Standup in a swimming pool, naked tractor driving, heart attacks, heckles, walkouts, rain and an onstage marriage proposal – as the fringe turns 75, this year’s performers on the memories that make the festival unique

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‘Standup was a weapon to him’: Ian Cognito, the comedian who died on stage – literally

Three years ago, the caustic comic had a fatal aortic dissection mid-show. Now a new documentary about the self-proclaimed ‘most banned act in Britain’ reveals a saga of booze and outrage

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh festival 2022: 50 shows to see

Phil Wang makes a heroic return, Ian McKellen stars in a balletic Hamlet and Sophie Duker is gleefully carefree. Here are our picks of the festival’s comedy, theatre and dance

The Independent UK

David Crosby responds to fan asking why Crosby, Stills & Nash music is back on Spotify

Young pulled his music from Spotify earlier this year over the platform’s association with Joe Rogan

The National (Scotland)

Warning: Stewart Lee's new show contains scenes of ‘woke’ humour

Stewart Lee is back. He’s somewhat portlier – as many of us are – than he was before the pandemic struck and on typically excellent,…

The Guardian - UK

The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks review – 1960s gem rescued from obscurity

This caustically comic tale of a disaffected wife, back in print for the first time in half a century with a new introduction by Stewart Lee, is a cause for celebration

The National (Scotland)

Stewart Lee's new show brings woke grenades to the culture wars

STEWART Lee seems pretty relaxed for a man who finds himself on the frontline of a war.

Wales Online

Comedian Stewart Lee 'withdraws material from Spotify' in Covid misinformation row

The row had already escalated on Tuesday when White House press secretary Jen Psaki said 'more can be done' by Spotify to tackle the spread of coronavirus misinformation

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