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Steel: You Can't Just Shut Us Up Now That Margaret Thatcher's Dead
Znet Article, April, 19 2013
Mark Steel
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If someone robs your house, you don’t say: “I disagreed with the burglar’s policy, of tying me to a chair. But I did admire his convictions”
Steel: Oh Good Lord What Has The SWP Gone And Done NOW?
Znet Article, March, 16 2013
Mark Steel
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We have to follow the same rules as anyone who wants to win the support of a wide layer of people, by creating an atmosphere that attracts rather than repels
Steel: Enough Arsing About, Let’s Sort Out The World
Znet Article, February, 21 2013
Mark Steel
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Right, that’s enough, now what are we going to do about it?
Steel: Eight Billion Years Should Do It
Znet Article, September, 24 2011
Mark Steel
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It's not the bankers' fault they're irresponsible--they need to be shown how to behave
Steel: Inflicting Pain on the Sick
Znet Article, August, 17 2011
Mark Steel
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Cuts have to be made somewhere so I suppose it's only fair that the brunt of them should fall on the terminally ill
Steel: The BBC's Partial Impartiality
Znet Article, February, 02 2009
Mark Steel
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The decision of the British Broadcasting Corporation to not air an appeal for aid to Gaza exposes which side the media are on.
Steel: Marie Antoinette, the Upspeak Version
Znet Article, October, 31 2006
Mark Steel
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Eventually, in our celebrity-driven culture--in which it doesn't matter what someone's done, or even if they've ever done anything as long as they're famous--it was inevitable someone would apply this outlook to history. The result is Sofia Coppol...
Steel: Has An Anti-war Campaign Ever Been So Mainstream?
Znet Article, December, 16 2005
Mark Steel
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Now even Doctor Who has come out against the war in Iraq. It turns out the Christmas edition contains a thinly veiled anti-war message. And this follows the recent release of an anti-war album by Burt Bacharach, which could create the most relaxed...
Steel: The Comical Lies We're Told
Znet Article, May, 12 2004
Mark Steel
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There's a charmingly off-key, surreal logic to the line coming from the British establishment, that any repercussions from torturing people are the Daily Mirror's fault for telling us it happened. For example, this Colonel Black says, "The decisio...
Steel: Looking For WMD? Come To London's Docklands
Znet Article, September, 03 2003
Mark Steel
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I found the weapons of mass destruction. Next week they'll be in London's Docklands, at a vast arms fair. Which sounds almost qua...
Steel: Truth, Lies and Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Znet Article, May, 29 2003
Mark Steel
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I think I've detected a new type of Gulf War Syndrome, a shocking disease that attacks the nervous system. It afflicts anyone defending the latest Gulf war, making them see piles of imaginary weapons. For example, one American soldier, interviewed...
Steel: Iraqis only count if they're dancing in the street
Znet Article, April, 17 2003
Mark Steel
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Maybe the reason some Iraqis were dancing after the fall of Saddam is the Americans got their translation wrong. When they made their announcements in Arabic, they thought they were saying "Good news, from now on you're all free." But they were ac...
Steel: The Minute It's Made Up You'll Hear About It.
Znet Article, April, 03 2003
Mark Steel
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You expect lies, but usually they're found out once a war is over. But in this war the lying is so inept that it gets rumbled the next day. So the news starts "Oh, apparently that uprising we yelled about all through yesterday didn't happen" or "A...
Steel: The First Casualty Of This War Is Common Sense
Znet Article, March, 22 2003
Mark Steel
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I suppose Clare Short thinks she can get across her point of view more effectively by staying in the Cabinet. When civilian deaths go over 10,000, she'll give that Tony Blair such a look. She seems to have convinced herself that she has to ...
Steel: We Shall Not Be Moved
Znet Article, February, 11 2003
Mark Steel
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Every veteran of protests and demonstrations agrees – nothing has ever been like this. The tradition is that you inform an average civilian that you're going on a march, and they look at you with a mixture of puzzlement and pity, as if you...
Steel: Playing Hide And Seek With Saddam
Znet Article, January, 23 2003
Mark Steel
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Has anything ever been such a complete waste of time as these weapons inspections? Does anyone believe that Bush might announce, "Well, we've looked absolutely everywhere and fair's fair, there's nothing there. I didn't think Saddam had it in h...
Steel: Hurry Now While Stocks Of Deadly Anthrax Last
Znet Article, January, 04 2003
Mark Steel
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Not everyone can have appreciated a break for Christmas. After a few days of singing about peace in honour of the baby Jesus, it must be a relief for Christians such as Blair and Bush to get back to planning how to obliterate the region the poor s...
Steel: Watch Out For Scuds On The London Underground
Znet Article, December, 12 2002
Mark Steel
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Could anyone have a more useless job than those weapons inspectors in Iraq? Does anyone honestly believe there is any vague chance that George Bush might say "Well, fair enough, we couldn't find anything so it's nice to know that he's mended his w...
