Content provider: selected short prose pieces, 2011-2016

Over the last few years, often when David Mitchell has been on holiday, the comedian Stewart Lee has been attempting to understand modern Britain in a weekly newspaper column. Why are there so few right-wing stand-ups? Who was Grant Shapps? What does your Spotify playlist data say about you? Are Jeremy Corbyn and Stewart Lee really the new Christs? And so on.

Introduced, annotated and, where necessary, explained by the author, Content Provider is funny, grumpy and provocative.