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Znet Article 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”

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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?

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Steel: Saddam Seems To Won Over His Floating Voters

Znet Article, October, 17 2002 Mark Steel
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I wonder how the leader of the "no" campaign tried to inspire his supporters after Saddam got a 100 per cent "yes" vote in his election. I suppose he said: "Obviously we're disappointed, but we fought a good campaign and I enjoyed every minute. I'...

Znet Article Steel: The Tortured Logic That Leads Iraq To This Memorial

Znet Article, September, 13 2002 Mark Steel
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After all that business yesterday, there must be dozens of celebrities devastated that no one asked them where they were when they heard the news. And they'd have a point, as most of them managed to get a piece in somewhere along the lines of "I'd...

Znet Article Steel: Don't Look Now: Saddam Is Drowning Kittens

Znet Article, September, 07 2002 Mark Steel
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So, they've got the evidence, about the weapons of mass destruction, but we can't see it just yet. Is it still at the printers? Is it being held up by a row about how you spell "aflatoxin"? Perhaps there's a problem with the plot, and the scriptwr...

Znet Article Steel: When Bart Simpson Goes To War, Take Cover

Znet Article, July, 06 2002 Mark Steel
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The American military must take tips from Bart Simpson. As survivors gaze in bewilderment at the four bombarded Afghan villages and 40 people at a wedding killed by American missiles fired from American planes, the Pentagon thinks for a moment and...

Znet Article Steel: Take me to the Promised Land (the long way)

Znet Article, April, 18 2002 Mark Steel
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At a time when many people complain that politicians are obsessed with spin, it's so refreshing to hear Israeli spokesmen, who refuse to make the slightest concession to PR whatsoever. Asked for their attitude towards the shooting of a baby by an ...

Znet Article Steel: Don't Ask For Evidence, Just Nuke Baghdad

Znet Article, March, 14 2002 Mark Steel
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The American military has become like one of these couples that always goes on holiday to the same resort. They're sat in the Pentagon muttering: "We always bomb the same place, every year. This year we looked through the brochures and thought of ...

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