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Mark Steel

Type: Person

Name: Mark Steel

Title: Deputy Secretary, Regulatory and Competition Policy Branch - Ministry of Economic Development (New Zealand)

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Mr Gove's alternative grammar test

Is correct grammar a necessity or an outdated relic? The debate goes on - and Mark Steel has chipped in brilliantly for Independent Voices this morning. Still, with so much confusion around, perhaps it's time to sort out some of these grammatical rules ... [Published The Independent - May 17 2013]

Entities: Mark Steel

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

Brilliant article on the Queen's speech and UK Government policy

Mark Steel wrote a great article in the Independent on Thursday showing up British government policy in their tackling, or lack of tackling, of the banking scandal and their recent policy moves regarding immigrants in the UK.Have you heard? The immigrants ... [Published Politics.ie - May 12 2013]

Entities: UK Government, Mark Steel, Immigration

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Mark Steel: Have you heard? The immigrants ruined UK

You know who mucked up the economy, don’t you? It’s obvious from the laws proposed in the Queen’s Speech. It’s immigrants who don’t have their papers in order, that’s who. It was Somali refugees, popping out from their hostel to the local council to say: ... [Published The Gulf Today - May 11 2013]

Entities: Immigration, Mark Steel, United Kingdom

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Tony Blair

Finally, A Serious Analysis of Tony Blair and the UK's Achievements in Afghanistan

In a May 2 article in the British Independent, columnist Mark Steel writes:"At last, amid all the bleak news that comes from Afghanistan, there's a success story to justify the British and American presence there. Because one of the main aims of Western ... [Published Lyndon LaRouche Public Action Committee - May 06 2013]

Entities: Tony Blair, Afghanistan, Heroin (Diacetylmorphine), Mark Steel, Taliban

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Gatecrashers keep police busy at Groovin the Moo

Drugs, drinking and up to 1000 people scaling security fences kept police busy at the Groovin the Moo music festival held at the University of Canberra on Sunday.ACT police arrested one man for drug-related offences and five more people will be summonsed ... [Published Sydney Morning Herald - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Mark Steel, Underage Drinking, Police

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

NRA National Rifle Association

Mark Steel: If every Boston marathon runner had a gun, they’d be safe, right?

The National Rifle Association in America will be preparing its statement. Each time a nutcase goes berserk with a gun, the NRA insists that this proves everyone should have a gun, so in a couple of days it’ll announce that the only way to respond to ... [Published The Independent - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Mark Steel, Boston Marathon, NRA National Rifle Association

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

Good to meet you … Jackie Schneider

A reader whose contact with a Guardian journalist led to a front-page story and her own occasional comment pieceI discovered the Guardian, along with Socialist Worker and Radio 4, when I went to university in the early 80s. After graduating, I got a job ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Mark Steel, Owen Jones, Twitter, Disability

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

Mark Steel: You Can't Just Shut Us Up

Maybe a more modern way of broadcasting the news would have been for Davina McCall to announce it, saying: “She’s gone, but let’s have a look at some of her best bits.” Then we could see her denouncing Nelson Mandela as a terrorist and befriending General ... [Published ZNet - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Mark Steel, Margaret Thatcher, Conviction, Davina McCall, Jehovah's Witnesses

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Mark Steel: Thatcher's funeral is over. Can we go back to normal now, please?

I’m still not entirely sure it’s over , if it’s safe to turn on a television without seeing Phillip Schofield saying: “Now we’re going to discuss Baroness Thatcher’s favourite biscuits. With me in the studio to share their Custard Cream memories of the ... [Published The Independent - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Mark Steel, Phillip Schofield, Henry Kissinger, Margaret Thatcher, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

If you ask me...I’m sorry, but I can no longer hide my admiration for Lady Thatcher

Iknow many readers of this newspaper will bristle at this – ding dong!, and so on – and I will never be able to ride the lift with Mark Steel again , which is a shame, as it is his greatest joy. (“I love riding the lift with you,” he once told me.) But ... [Published The Independent - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Margaret Thatcher, admiration, Mark Steel

First reported Apr 08 2013 - Updated Apr 09 2013 - 1 reports

The trendy, Left-wing gadflies celebrating Margaret Thatcher's death would probably be rotting in the Gulag if it wasn't for the Iron Lady

I can't say I'm surprised that so many on the Left are reacting with malicious glee to the death of Baroness Thatcher. "What a terrible shame – that it wasn't 87 years earlier," tweeted Mark Steel, a Radio 4 "comedian" and ex-member of the SWP. David ... [Published News » Politics - Apr 08 2013]

Entities: Margaret Thatcher, Putrefaction, Left Wing

First reported Mar 26 2013 - Updated Mar 26 2013 - 1 reports

Anti-austerity march hopes to break Iraq rally record

The new "People’s Assembly Against Austerity" will march through London on 22 June, and, with the help of the Stop The War Coalition, intends to break that group’s record for the largest public rally in the nation’s history. Backed with trade union cash, ... [Published The Independent - Mar 26 2013]

Entities: The Labour Party (United Kingdom), FRANCESCA MARTINEZ, Mark Steel, Iraq, Ken Loach

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Mr Gove's alternative grammar test [Published The Independent - May 17 2013]
Brilliant article on the Queen's speech and UK ... [Published Politics.ie - May 12 2013]
Mark Steel: Have you heard? The immigrants ruin... [Published The Gulf Today - May 11 2013]
Finally, A Serious Analysis of Tony Blair and t... [Published Lyndon LaRouche Public Action Committee - May 06 2013]
The vicious cycle of insecurity in Afghanistan [Published Afghanistan News Center - May 03 2013]
Gatecrashers keep police busy at Groovin the Moo [Published Sydney Morning Herald - Apr 29 2013]
Ben Elton: the ex-darling of the Left can do no... [Published Telegraph - Apr 28 2013]
Mark Steel: If every Boston marathon runner had... [Published The Independent - Apr 25 2013]
Unveiling a feast of top festive fun [Published Cheshire Independent - Apr 24 2013]
Good to meet you … Jackie Schneider [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 19 2013]
Mark Steel: You Can't Just Shut Us Up [Published ZNet - Apr 19 2013]
Mark Steel: Thatcher's funeral is over. Can we ... [Published The Independent - Apr 18 2013]
Bradford's London Marathon runners to take part... [Published Telegraph and Argus - Apr 18 2013]
If you ask me...I’m sorry, but I can no longer ... [Published The Independent - Apr 17 2013]
Thatcher funeral protesters urged to âWear Red ... [Published An Phoblacht - Apr 16 2013]
Thatcher: Across the divide [Published The Independent - Apr 12 2013]
Margaret Thatcher, hero of British comedy \| Ber... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Apr 10 2013]
Why is Maggie still so demonised? [Published Telegraph - Apr 09 2013]
The trendy, Left-wing gadflies celebrating Marg... [Published News » Politics - Apr 08 2013]
The Spirit of ‘45 [Published Harry's Place - Mar 27 2013]
Anti-austerity march hopes to break Iraq rally ... [Published The Independent - Mar 26 2013]
Owen Jones and the People’s Front Against... [Published Guy Fawkes' blog - Mar 26 2013]
i Editor's Letter: Here's to the hardest-workin... [Published The Independent - Mar 13 2013]
When will we finally lift the Queen out of pove... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Feb 21 2013]
Anti-racists celebrate past struggles and look ... [Published Socialist Worker - Sep 18 2012]
Love Music Hate Racism celebrates its tenth ann... [Published Socialist Worker - Aug 29 2012]

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Margaret Thatcher, hero of British comedy \| Ber... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Apr 10 2013] Thatcher inspired the 'alternative comedy' movement in the 80s through rage at her policies. So why isn't this happening now? Debate continues on whether Margaret Thatcher saved or destroyed British industry, but there is one industry that she practically ...
The trendy, Left-wing gadflies celebrating Marg... [Published News » Politics - Apr 08 2013] I can't say I'm surprised that so many on the Left are reacting with malicious glee to the death of Baroness Thatcher. "What a terrible shame – that it wasn't 87 years earlier," tweeted Mark Steel, a Radio 4 "comedian" and ex-member of the SWP. David ...
The Spirit of ‘45 [Published Harry's Place - Mar 27 2013] THIS IS A GUEST POST BY SACKCLOTH AND ASHES. Ken Loach doesn’t often make me laugh – and never intentionally – but his latest appeal for a ‘new party of the left’ (issued alongside Kate Hudson, not the one who got the Oscar for her role in ‘Almost ...
Owen Jones and the People’s Front Against... [Published Guy Fawkes' blog - Mar 26 2013] Rejoice, comrades! This lunchtime Guido infiltrated the Unite headquarters to run the rule over the People’s Assembly, Owen Jones’ new sinister sounding union-funded anti-cuts campaign. Under the watchful eye of Keir Hardie in a rather austere room, ...