London to Paris: Four Ways to Regret Your Life Choices So you want to travel from London to Paris? Congratulations on successfully deciding to throw money at the English Channel until it lets you through. The journey between these two cities is essentially a hostage negotiation with your own sanity, where you'll be offered four distinct methods of self-torture, each arriving at the same destination but via vastly different circles of hell. Eurostar Train: The £39 Lie That Costs £200 [caption id="attachment_7444" align="alignright" width="300"] Prat UK Images 20260205 024133 01 Satire[/caption] Eurostar advertises fares "from £39," which is technically true in the same way that luxury apartments start "from £500 a month" if you're willing to share a converted closet…
UK Plans in Shambles After Prince Harry Suggests Budgeting, Meghan Markle Suggests Champagne There are moments in history when great nations pivot on a single decision. The moon landing. The invention of tea breaks. And now, reportedly, a domestic disagreement involving a spreadsheet and a flute of something sparkling. According to palace-adjacent whisper networks and one overly enthusiastic barista in Montecito, a simple suggestion about "tracking expenses" has sent an entire transatlantic strategy into interpretive dance mode. The United Kingdom, already juggling inflation, politics, and the national debate over whether beans belong on everything, was not emotionally prepared for a budgeting conversation to go international. The Color-Coded Financial Showdown That Shook Montecito Sources say Harry unveiled a color-coded financial plan with…
London to Paris: Four Ways to Regret Your Life Choices So you want to travel from London to Paris? Congratulations…
AI's Apocalypse Now or Later: The City Trembles as Average Software Becomes Slightly Less Brilliant By General B.S. Slinger When…
Nation Relieved As Prince Andrew Relocated To Wolferton Village Where Everyone Thinks Andrew Can Fix Their Shed Roof WOLFERTON, NORFOLK —…
Prats vs. the Machine Why Human-Grade Folly Is the One Thing AI Still Cannot Fake 🤖🍌 You have spotted the…
Britain Contacts Elon: Please Stop Grok AI From Dressing Everyone Like It's Halloween Gone Wrong Britain has reached that familiar…
101 Reasons Google Readers Should Stop Having a Moan About Satirical Journalism What Is Satirical Journalism? A Guide for Confused Google Readers Satirical journalism uses humour, irony, and exaggeration to critique politics, society, and culture. Britain has a rich tradition…
UK Plans in Shambles After Prince Harry Suggests Budgeting, Meghan Markle Suggests Champagne There are moments in history when great nations pivot on a single decision. The moon landing. The invention of tea breaks. And now, reportedly, a domestic disagreement…
Here’s a playful take on Should Globalists Give Up?, riffing on the spirit and the controversy around globalism that’s swirling through the culture pages of The Economist and world commentary this week 🌍🎭. (This story is entirely a human collaboration…
London to Paris: Four Ways to Regret Your Life Choices So you want to travel from London to Paris? Congratulations on successfully deciding to throw money at the English Channel until it lets you through. The journey between these two…
AI’s Apocalypse Now or Later: The City Trembles as Average Software Becomes Slightly Less Brilliant By General B.S. Slinger When Investors See AI, They See Red (Charts and the Tube Map) The City woke up yesterday and saw AI wasn’t…
Global Inequality Falls, Local Labour Activist Still Furious Inequality Isn’t Worse The crisis began quietly, as many modern crises do, with a chart. Somewhere in a sunlit office in Islington filled with reusable coffee cups and framed Corbyn posters, a…
UK Strategy Goes Tits Up; Sussex Household Switches to Toe-Tapping Solve In a development political scientists are calling “inevitable once jazz hands entered the policy phase,” long-range planning connected to the United Kingdom has reportedly veered off the motorway and…
MI6’s River House: Where British Spies Go to Forget Their Passwords (And Everything Else) You ever notice how River House is basically the world’s most obvious secret? Like, if you’re trying to hide something, maybe don’t build it next to one of…
A Perfectly Sensible Trip to London and Ireland An article for travelers who enjoy culture, queues, and weather that apologizes without changing. This guide explores the realities of traveling to London and Ireland with humor, cultural commentary, and genuine observations…
London Versus Paris: A Rivalry Fueled by Coffee, Queues, and Deep Emotional Scars There are wars fought with tanks, wars fought with words, and then there is London versus Paris, a conflict waged entirely with sighs, side-eye, and the belief…
The Official London and Paris Itinerary for People Who Pretend This Is a Relaxing Trip Travel guides promise balance. This itinerary promises honesty. Welcome to the London and Paris itinerary, a carefully structured plan designed to make you tired, opinionated, and…
Who Types “London and London” Into Google, What Happened to You Somewhere out there, a human being woke up, opened a browser, stared into the void, and typed “london and london” into Google. Not by accident. Not mid-stroke. With intention. With…
London Discovers Jesse McCartney, Immediately Pretends It Always Knew Him London woke up this week, checked the weather, sighed at the drizzle, and then did what it always does when a millennial pop memory wanders into town: acted incredibly chill…
London Boroughs Finally Ranked by Confidence Despite Having Nothing to Be Confident About London has finally achieved what no imperial census, transport white paper, or mayoral task force could ever deliver: a comprehensive confidence ranking of its boroughs, measured not…
Right then — we’re about to fire up the satirical rocket 🚀 on this glorious spectacle of national ambition stumbling over financial reality like a camel on ice. Here’s the real scoop that is in the news today: Saudi Arabia’s…
George Orwell Tried to Warn Us, But We Clicked “Accept All Cookies” Instead Somewhere in the great British beyond, George Orwell is staring at today’s news cycle like a man who invented the fire alarm and then watched everyone replace the batteries…
Elon Musk Declares War on Ancient Greece, Hollywood Declares War on History, Popcorn Declares Neutrality 🍿 There are few things more powerful than a billionaire with WiFi and a grudge against a screenplay. When Elon Musk reportedly huffed about the…
Clintons to Testify in Epstein Investigation: America’s Political Circus Reaches New Heights Watching American politics from across the pond has never been more entertaining The Financial Times recently reported that Bill and Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify before the US…
The Secret Double Life of Queen Elizabeth II: Therapist, Horse Girl, and Supreme Commander of Corgis Historians say the late Queen had a hobby. Singular. Quaint. Relaxing. A pleasant diversion from ruling continents and waving at people who had been camping on…
Top Ten Reasons the Marxist Media Treat Elon Musk Like a Bond Villain With WiFi Somewhere in a softly lit newsroom, a columnist sips ethically conflicted coffee and whispers, “But what if the rocket has opinions?” Thus continues the long…
Elon Musk Buys More Sky, British Pundits Demand Ceiling Regulation Somewhere above your head, past the clouds, past the part of the atmosphere where airline peanuts go to retire, sits the latest reason certain commentators are stress eating digestive biscuits. Elon…
