Mark Steel is a British socialist and comedian. He has been a member of the Socialist Workers Party since his late teens. He has written and performed several radio and television series for the BBC.
He wrote a column for The Guardian between 1996 and 1999. He was sacked by that newspaper (according to him because The Guardian wanted to "realign towards Tony Blair". The Guardian deny this.) In 2000 he started writing a weekly column for The Independent which appears every Thursday.
He is the author of several books.
In 2000 he took part in the London Assembly elections on behalf of the London Socialist Alliance (a pre-cursor to the Socialist Alliance) in the Croydon & Sutton constituency, he received 1,823 votes (1.5 per cent of the vote).
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2 Television programmes Mark Steel has contributed to or appeard on 3 Books Mark Steel has written 4 External links |
Radio programmes Mark Steel has contributed to or appeared on
There are plans for a new BBC Radio 4 series called Dedicated Troublemaker.
Television programmes Mark Steel has contributed to or appeard on
Books Mark Steel has written
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