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A special Twixtmas treat for you

The Snow Queen

On not getting your break

Stewart Lee and the need to update your act

On wanting to belong

Why does film get stand-up so wrong?

Shorts

It's all over

Stalwarts

On suicide

Not every script is trying to be perfect

Germans don't do it better

On pulling the lever

'Comedy in the woke world'

The Lambada

Hats

'Stiff Upper Quip': Season Two

'Dead Ends'

Lockdown and music

Men of the Night Shift

Free copy of 'Midlands'

Introduction to 'Midlands'

Thoughts on being a man

On personal failure

The one lesson I wish I’d learnt as a young man

The pleasures of horror

Memories of Freiburg

Reflections on being called bald

Keir Starmer has committed the ultimate crime

My one regret in life

Conservatism and the arts

Considering London

My night in a Berlin sex club

Maybe you have to accept that you’re boring

Depression: The first twenty years

We need a safe space for straight male sexuality

'The Combine'

Nostalgia for hipsters

Six months of 'Stiff Upper Quip'

We need to save some words for a crisis

Utopianism as a form of narcissism

What does doing comedy teach you?

How I quit stand-up comedy

Memories of 2005

White men are being discriminated against in the arts

The guilty secret of the covid pandemic

On turning 40

On leaving the left

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