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British Couple Try Daily ‘Bedroom Science Experiment’

British Couple Try Daily ‘Bedroom Science Experiment’ for a Year and Somehow Survive In what relationship experts are fondly calling “the controlled study of affection where all variables are cuddling,” a husband and wife undertook a bold experiment: attempting to have sex every single day for a year to see what might happen. That’s right—365 numbered slots on their calendar, each one a tiny battlefield of logistics, parental duties, telly…

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Trump Wins AGAIN… Labour is Furious

Britain woke up this morning to a development so alien to our national character that several newsrooms had to lie down in a darkened room: something went right. Trump wins AGAIN… Labour is furious! In a twist that has left professional outrage merchants clutching their reusable hemp tote bags in speechless confusion, U.S. forces successfully rescued both crew members of a downed F-15E Strike Eagle inside Iran — the pilot…

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BBC Spends Six Hours Explaining Caracas Strike

BBC Spends Six Hours Explaining Why Trump’s Caracas Strike Proves He’s Literally Hitler When Breaking News Breaks the Narrative The BBC’s live blog opened with the sort of breathless urgency typically reserved for Royal funerals or England losing on penalties: “Explosions have been reported in Caracas.” Within seconds, the corporation’s entire editorial staff appeared to have simultaneously remembered they hadn’t called Trump a fascist in nearly forty-eight hours and set about correcting…

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London: World Pizza Capital

London Declares Itself World Pizza Capital Moments After Discovering Food With Flavour Londoners spent 400 years boiling meat into emotional punishment, then suddenly discovered mozzarella and now behave like Renaissance philosophers every time dough rises correctly. Britain declaring itself the world capital of pizza feels a bit like a labrador announcing it now makes better espresso than Rome because it once sniffed a truffle in Surrey. The average London pizza…

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London’s Top 10 Job Sites

London’s Hiring Process Is Now Officially Longer Than Some Medieval Wars — And The Websites Are Making It Worse candacy.uk — London’s Top 10 Job Online Site LONDON — Economists, recruiters, exhausted graduates, career coaches who charge £400 a session to explain the word “resilience,” and one emotionally broken man from Hounslow all confirmed this week that applying for a job in London now requires approximately the same psychological endurance…

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LIVE: Britain Watches Venezuela Get Bombed

Britain Watches Venezuela Get Bombed, Refreshes Live Blogs, Argues About It Anyway A Completely Serious, Deeply British, Absolutely Calm Response to Explosions Abroad Britain woke up to news that Venezuela was being bombed, which in UK terms meant three immediate national reactions occurred simultaneously. First, everyone checked whether it affected petrol prices. Second, everyone refreshed The Guardian live blog until their thumbs cramped. Third, everyone confidently explained Latin American geopolitics to strangers online…

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Britain Asks For Self-Care

Self-Care Arrives Forty Years Late and Britain Asks to Speak to the Manager Nation’s Most Emotionally Waterproof Adults Now Googling “How to Feel Feelings Without Putting Your Back Out” A generation raised on three sacred commandments — finish your plate, never ring in sick, and if you’re crying, do it quietly in the shed — is being told, apparently without irony, that it must now “prioritise self-care.” This is the…

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MI6’s New River Location Raises Questions

From Safe House to Glass House: MI6’s New River Location Raises Questions About Operational Security At what point does a “safe house” become just… a house? River House is the answer to that question, and the answer is disappointing. The building sits on one of London’s busiest river embankments, next to a major bridge, in a neighborhood with hundreds of windows overlooking it. If you were designing a building specifically to be…