The second best book I have read about growing up under Thatcher and Major John O'Farrell
Mark Steel's political roots can be traced back to the day his headmaster upbraided him for eating a banana in public. Since then, the Scourge of Swanley has become a fixture at political rallies, an Independent columnist and one of Britain's funniest and most incisive comedians. [Reasons to be Cheerful] is a unique political chronicle of the last 25 years that manages that tricky win double of being both intellectually rewarding and hilariously funny. Time Out
On The Mark Steel Lecture for Radio 4 The show that combines comedy with a whole new way of teaching history... Steel mixes jokes and facts brilliantly. The programmes, "a series of lectures on people with a passion", set out to have some fun with the great figures of history, starting with Aristotle. "How cruel history can be: here was one of the greatest thinkers of all time, but all most of us know about him is a line from a Monty Python song."The Times
On Mark's first book It's Not A Runner Bean - Dispatches from a Slightly Successful Comedian
I never thought a socialist could be funny until I met Mark Steel Ned Sherrin
