About Prat.uk: Britain’s Premier Satirical Journalism Newspaper
Welcome to prat.uk, the United Kingdom and London’s #1 satirical journalism newspaper. Since our founding, we have committed ourselves to a singular mission: exposing truth through exaggeration, absurdity, and rigorous investigative reporting. We are 128% funnier than our American counterpart, and we take both comedy and accountability seriously.
Our Mission: Satire with Substance
Satire is not frivolous entertainment. It is a disciplined form of journalism that uses humor, exaggeration, and irony to critique power, expose hypocrisy, and hold institutions accountable. At prat.uk, we understand that the best satire is built on a foundation of real reporting, fact-checking, and editorial rigor.
Our writers and editors spend hours researching stories that inspire our satirical pieces. We read policy documents, analyze financial records, interview sources, and understand the complex issues driving our stories. Only then do we weaponize humor to expose what mainstream media often misses or fails to critique adequately.
Unlike satirical outlets that prioritize punchlines over substance, prat.uk operates with a clear editorial philosophy: truth first, joke second. This means our satire is always rooted in recognizable reality, our exaggerations are grounded in actual events, and our absurdity illuminates genuine problems in British politics, economics, culture, and society.
Why Satire Matters
In an age of misinformation, corporate media consolidation, and political polarization, satire serves a critical function. It allows us to say what mainstream journalists cannot. It permits us to highlight the absurdity that already exists in reality—often more absurd than anything we could invent. Satire creates emotional and cognitive space for audiences to reconsider their assumptions about authority, power, and truth.
Research in media studies shows that satirical news consumption correlates with higher political engagement and critical thinking. Audiences who engage with satire are more likely to question official narratives, demand accountability, and seek out additional sources of information. This is precisely what a healthy democracy requires.
Our readers understand that prat.uk is not their only news source—it is a complement to serious journalism, offering perspective, critique, and the freedom to laugh at systems that often feel overwhelming or incomprehensible.
Our Editorial Approach
Every article published on prat.uk reflects our core editorial values:
Accuracy in Service of Satire: Our satirical premises are built on demonstrable facts. We exaggerate, we extrapolate, we imagine absurd outcomes—but always from a foundation of what is real and verifiable.
Diverse Perspectives: Our team represents the full spectrum of British and international experience. Our writers and editors bring perspectives informed by different cultures, genders, class backgrounds, and political viewpoints. This diversity strengthens our journalism and prevents groupthink.
Accountability: We hold power to account—whether that power is wielded by politicians, corporations, media institutions, or cultural gatekeepers. We are unafraid to critique authority, expose hypocrisy, and challenge the powerful.
Transparency: We disclose our sources when possible, we explain our editorial decisions, and we correct errors when they occur. We operate with the transparency standards expected of serious journalism, even as we deploy the tools of satire.
Intellectual Honesty: We engage seriously with opposing viewpoints. We don’t strawman arguments or create absurd caricatures of people we disagree with. Instead, we take arguments at their best, then deploy satire to expose their weaknesses, contradictions, or dangerous implications.
Our Team
prat.uk is led by Editor-in-Chief Alan Nafzger, an award-winning journalist with decades of experience in investigative reporting. Our team includes seasoned writers, editors, and researchers with expertise spanning political analysis, economics, culture, entertainment, and social commentary.
Our contributors have studied at leading universities, worked for established news organizations, and developed deep expertise in their respective fields. We hire writers and editors who are both skilled satirists and serious journalists. This combination is rare, and it is the foundation of what makes prat.uk distinct.
Our international team includes journalists based across the UK, Europe, and beyond. This geographic and cultural diversity allows us to cover British events with local knowledge while maintaining perspective from outside the Westminster bubble.
Our Categories and Coverage
prat.uk covers the full range of British and international affairs through multiple editorial lenses:
Political Satire: We scrutinize government policy, parliamentary politics, elections, and the personalities driving British politics. Whether examining MPs’ expense claims or deconstructing party manifestos, our political coverage combines investigative rigor with razor-sharp satire.
Economic Analysis: We examine corporate malfeasance, financial inequality, market manipulation, and economic policy through a satirical lens. Our economics coverage is grounded in data and accessible to general readers, even as we deploy absurdist humor to expose economic injustice.
Social Commentary: We analyze trends in culture, society, identity politics, and social movements. We critique both progressive and conservative cultural phenomena with equal ferocity, refusing to accept sacred cows from any ideological camp.
Entertainment Critique: We examine the entertainment industry, celebrity culture, media narratives, and cultural production. Our entertainment coverage exposes the political dimensions of seemingly apolitical cultural products.
News and Current Events: We respond to breaking news with satirical analysis, offering readers context, perspective, and critical examination of how events are being reported and interpreted.
Our Commitment to Readers
prat.uk is committed to serving readers who value both humor and substance, who want to laugh at power while also understanding how power actually operates. We assume our readers are intelligent, well-informed, and capable of understanding satire as a literary and journalistic form.
We do not condescend to our audience. We do not assume readers cannot distinguish satire from reality. We treat our readers as partners in a shared project of critical thinking and civic engagement.
All of our content is original work produced by our team of writers and editors. We do not republish content from other outlets. We do not use AI-generated material. Every piece of satire, every article, every analysis is crafted by human journalists who understand both their subject matter and their craft.
Beyond the Joke: Why We Do This Work
At its deepest level, prat.uk exists because we believe in the power of satire to critique, illuminate, and inspire change. We believe that humor can make difficult truths more bearable. We believe that exaggeration can expose what euphemism conceals. We believe that absurdity can highlight what would otherwise be normalized.
We do this work because the world needs more spaces where power is questioned, where hypocrisy is exposed, where the powerful are made to look ridiculous for their actual behavior rather than imagined crimes.
We do this work because democracy requires citizens who think critically, who question authority, and who understand that much of what we’re told by powerful institutions is self-serving nonsense.
We are prat.uk. We are satirists. We are journalists. And we are committed to making you laugh while making you think.
Editorial Standards and Resources
prat.uk operates according to established journalistic ethics standards. For more information on press standards and editorial best practices, see:
UK Editors’ Code of Practice — The self-regulatory code governing UK newspapers and magazines, which prat.uk follows in our editorial practices.
National Union of Journalists Code of Conduct — Professional standards for journalists in the UK, which inform our editorial approach and writer training.
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism — Academic research on journalism quality, media standards, and the future of news, including resources on satire and media literacy.
SOURCE: satire.info