An oil monopoly, a hydration break, an authoritarian regime or two, a sweary walrus, a murder — where’s our football gone? I am old enough and quaint enough to remember…
On June 12, 2026, SpaceX landed on planet Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX, completing the largest IPO in history. The market response immediately pushed Elon Musk’s estimated net worth past…
FCA’s Palantir deal could expose UK financial data to Trump’s UK, critics fear, but masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts. Macron says French navy…
A snapshot—or screen grab—of the times we live in from today’s Guardian. On the left, a report on extreme heat events and deaths around the world caused by climate change…
Never mind the quality of the benevolent concern, just feel the width of the legislation! HMG is banning cigarettes for anyone born after 2008. Another stupid idea chugged out of…
Today at a surprise press conference, Melania Trump denied taking any cookies from the cookie jar. ‘I did not take any cookies from the cookie jar,’ she told assembled journalists.…
Keir Starmer is said to be incandescently green with fury today. He is also green with bile, and green with an overpowering nausea when he thinks about the future, the…
In one episode of the 80s comedy The Young Ones, the four housemates discover oil in the basement of their London student house. This leads Mike and Vyvyan to mount…
Please, sir, can we have our football back?
An oil monopoly, a hydration break, an authoritarian regime or two, a sweary walrus, a murder — where’s our football gone? I am old enough and quaint enough to remember…
That trillionaire in numbers
On June 12, 2026, SpaceX landed on planet Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX, completing the largest IPO in history. The market response immediately pushed Elon Musk’s estimated net worth past…
Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished
FCA’s Palantir deal could expose UK financial data to Trump’s UK, critics fear, but masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts. Macron says French navy…
Bollocks while the world burns
A snapshot—or screen grab—of the times we live in from today’s Guardian. On the left, a report on extreme heat events and deaths around the world caused by climate change…
From Nanny State to Ninny State
Never mind the quality of the benevolent concern, just feel the width of the legislation! HMG is banning cigarettes for anyone born after 2008. Another stupid idea chugged out of…
Melania Trump in surprise cookie denial
Today at a surprise press conference, Melania Trump denied taking any cookies from the cookie jar. ‘I did not take any cookies from the cookie jar,’ she told assembled journalists.…
The long arm of the absurd law
Oops! I’ve been criminalised in the UK while living in Japan Hi, my name’s Chris, and I am criminal. I am a British national, I live in Japan yet I…
The naked war
I’m old enough to remember when we had reasons for wars. No, really, it used to be a thing: having reasons for wars. There was even a legal term for…
As Gorton-Denton goes green, so does Starmer
Keir Starmer is said to be incandescently green with fury today. He is also green with bile, and green with an overpowering nausea when he thinks about the future, the…
When ‘fascist’ stops being a joke and why the word matters again
In one episode of the 80s comedy The Young Ones, the four housemates discover oil in the basement of their London student house. This leads Mike and Vyvyan to mount…