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Andy Burnham Abandons Pledge to Return Parthenon Marbles

Isabel Navarro

Andy Burnham Abandons Pledge to Return Parthenon Marbles, Says His Principles Belong to Previous Administration Prime Minister Completes the First Major Restoration of His Political Flexibility While Greece Is Offered a Long-Term Loan of Burnham’s 2023 Parthenon Marbles Opinion LONDON — Prime Minister Andy Burnham has reversed his support for returning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece after government experts discovered that statements made before entering Downing Street are not legally classified…

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Keir Starmer Leaves Parliament

Oeko Angebot

Keir Starmer Leaves Parliament to Focus on International Affairs, Having Completed Domestic Affairs to Everyone’s Satisfaction Former prime minister performs one last change of direction and discovers Westminster has an exit LONDON, 2 September 2026. Former prime minister Keir Starmer is leaving Parliament only weeks after departing Downing Street, despite previously indicating that he intended to remain an MP until the next general election. His departure triggers a by-election in Holborn…

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America’s Perfect Chinese-American Candidate for 2028

Alan Nafzger

America’s Perfect Chinese-American Candidate for 2028: A Very British Guide to the Yanks’ Latest Constitutional Loophole Every four years our American cousins promise the electorate a candidate who is “finally different,” and every four years he turns out to be exactly the same fellow with a new haircut and a fresh grievance. This cycle, however, Washington has genuinely surpassed itself, and it falls to us here at The London Prat…

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Trump Declares War on His Own Spies

Cyndi Himmelstiere

Trump Declares War on His Own Spies After Discovering the CIA Gave His Briefing a “Deep Tissue,” Demands Full Refund By The London Prat’s Man in Washington — Filing From a Bar Near the White House With a Suspiciously Good View WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has accused his own intelligence services of “deliberately massaging” his daily briefing, which is either the gravest constitutional crisis America has faced in years or…

Social International

China’s Female Problems

Oeko Angebot

Beijing Forms All-Male Committee to Solve Its Woman Problem Communist Party Promises to Listen to Women Just as Soon as the Meeting Ends BEIJING –– After decades of carefully constructing a political hierarchy that resembles an exclusive gentlemen’s club with stricter admission standards than a royal golf course, China’s ruling elite has reportedly identified a startling new national challenge: women. The realization comes after officials noticed that half the country’s population…

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Parliament Immediately Opens Inquiry Into the Rules of Football

Caitlin Moran

England Loses Semi-Final, Parliament Immediately Opens Inquiry Into the Rules of Football MPs Demand Answers From a Sport That Has Existed, Unchanged, Since 1863 Following England’s exit from the semi-final on penalties — a phrase now legally required by tradition to appear in every national headline — Parliament has convened an emergency inquiry into the laws of football itself, on the grounds that a game England did not invent the…

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Milei’s Economic Reforms Win World Cup Match

Lowri Griffiths

Milei’s Economic Reforms Accidentally Create World’s Most Efficient Counterattack Argentina Cuts Government Spending, England Immediately Loses Possession BUENOS AIRES. Argentina’s government claimed Thursday that President Javier Milei’s economic reforms have now achieved what decades of football coaching could not, producing a national side so ruthlessly efficient, deficit-shy, spreadsheet-driven it scored twice in the closing minutes to eliminate England from the World Cup while barely increasing public expenditure. Officials described the victory as…

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Argentina Re-Invades the Falklands

Oeko Angebot

England Loses the Match, Argentina Re-Invades the Falklands With a Bedsheet By The London Prat Sports Desk In a stunning geopolitical own-goal that nobody at FIFA saw coming despite it being entirely predictable — a phrase that is doing some serious heavy lifting this week — Argentina’s players celebrated their World Cup semi-final win over England by unfurling a banner reading “Las Malvinas Son Argentinas,” reigniting a 200-year-old territorial dispute that England had, until…

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Internet Continues Producing the Worst Teen Terror Suspects

Harriet Collins

Teen Terror Suspect Reminds Britain the Internet Continues Producing the Worst Homework Projects Security Officials Note the Internet Remains Undefeated at Producing Bad Ideas Following the arrest of a teenager on terror-related charges, security officials have once again confirmed what parents, teachers, and anyone who has ever glanced at a school laptop’s browser history already knew: the internet remains a relentlessly efficient machine for turning bored fifteen-year-olds into national headlines,…

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Britain Demands FIFA Investigate Falklands War Banner

Judi Online

Britain Demands FIFA Investigate Banner, Hopes VAR Can Also Review the Falklands War FA Requests Formal Review, FIFA Requests Everyone Please Calm Down Britain has formally asked FIFA to investigate a controversial banner displayed during a recent match, while simultaneously floating — mostly in jest, though nobody in Whitehall will fully confirm this — whether the Video Assistant Referee system might also be repurposed to settle certain unresolved matters of…

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England Defeats France & REMATCH

Alan Nafzger

England Defeat France in Match So Entertaining FIFA May Accidentally Schedule It Again As the comedian Michael McIntyre once observed of English sporting hope, “We don’t get excited, we get cautiously optimistic in a way that’s indistinguishable from dread.” Nobody in Miami Gardens, Florida looked cautiously optimistic on Saturday night. They looked like people who had accidentally wandered into the wrong kind of theme park. Third-Place Playoff Turns Into Accidental Box Office…

Technology International

ByteDance Builds 10-Trillion-Parameter AI

Fiona MacLeod

ByteDance Builds 10-Trillion-Parameter AI After Discovering Artificial Intelligence Also Responds to Penis-Enlargement Logic TikTok owner discovers ancient technology principle: if eight trillion sounds powerful, ten trillion sounds powerful while leaning against a sports car BEIJING — ByteDance is reportedly training an artificial-intelligence model containing as many as 10 trillion parameters, apparently confirming that the global AI industry has entered the same intellectual phase previously occupied by pickup-truck tires, stereo speakers…

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Zendaya Weds Tom Holland at 400-Acre Estate

Chelsea Bloom

Zendaya Weds Tom Holland at 400-Acre Estate After Wedding Planner Concludes a Normal Hotel Might Make the Groom Too Easy to Find Secret Surrey do requires five-star manor, private cinema, golf course and enough countryside to ensure Spider-Man can attend without being spotted behind the floral arrangements SURREY — Zendaya and Tom Holland reportedly celebrated their marriage at Beaverbrook, the spectacular five-star Surrey country estate where privacy isn’t measured in curtains…

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Britain and France Promise to Defend Freedom of Navigation

Astrid Holgersson

Britain and France Promise to Defend Freedom of Navigation Just as Soon as Iran’s Pirates Promise Not to Shoot Back Royal Navy Prepared to Confront Iranian Pirates, Contingent on Pirates Providing Written Assurance Confrontation Won’t Occur LONDON | Britain and France have reaffirmed their unwavering commitment to freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, provided freedom can be defended somewhere quiet, preferably during office hours, and without anyone firing…

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Britain Converts RAF Base Into Asylum Housing

Charlotte Whitmore

Britain Converts RAF Base Into Asylum Housing, Locals Ask When Prime Minister Burnham Officially Surrendered Former military site outside Thetford prepares for new mission as government discovers defending borders was apparently only RAF Barnham’s first draft THETFORD, NORFOLK — Britain has begun the delicate process of converting a former military installation into proposed asylum accommodation, prompting residents around Thetford to ask whether Prime Minister Andy Burnham has formally surrendered the…

International Culture Social Technology

China Bans AI Boyfriends

Charlotte Whitmore

China Bans AI Boyfriends to Fix Birth Rate, Millions of Women Told to Return to Men Who Forget Anniversaries Beijing has officially decided that the fastest way to boost the birth rate is to delete everyone’s boyfriend. On July 15, the Cyberspace Administration of China’s Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services went into effect, and within hours ByteDance’s Doubao and Alibaba’s Qwen pulled the plug on the customizable…

Political International

Banks Finally Agree to Finance Marine Le Pen

Chelsea Bloom

French Banks Finally Agree to Finance Marine Le Pen After Discovering Taxpayers May Be Holding the Wallet France Solves the Difficult Problem of Political Banking With the Traditional Financial Innovation Known as “Make the Public Guarantee It” PARIS — French banks are warming to financing candidates in the 2027 presidential election if the government provides sufficient guarantees, a development that could help Marine Le Pen obtain domestic campaign financing after…

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DFW Cancels Islamic Washing Facility

Alan Nafzger

Governor Abbott Discovers Texas Airports Were Quietly Offering First-Class Boarding to the First Amendment DFW Cancels Islamic Washing Facility After Learning Religious Neutrality Still Applies Between the Starbucks and Gate D22 By the Texas Bureau AUSTIN, TEXAS — Governor Greg Abbott has threatened to reconsider state funding for Dallas–Fort Worth and Houston airports over facilities designed specifically for Islamic ritual washing, according to Newsweek’s report on the Texas airport controversy. Airport executives…

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Jerusalem Café Protest

Julie de Burgh

Jerusalem Café Protest Enters Seventh Week, Raising Suspicion Everyone Is Secretly Working for the Marketing Department Haredim demand that Basimta close on Shabbat, secular activists demand the sacred right to cappuccino, and one suspiciously useful vandal ensures television cameras arrive before the croissants. Seven Weeks, Two Camps and One Extremely Famous Door JERUSALEM — A modest café in central Jerusalem has become the latest battlefield in humanity’s long struggle to…

America International

US Carrier Survives Endless Marxist Media Attacks

Camden Rose

Carrier Survives Iran, Exhaustion and Endless Marxist Media Attacks—Then Encounters Moronic Democrats Who Believe Nothing Except Their Own Posts Left-wing media reports seven sailors dead; Navy responds with the dirty journalistic trick of checking ARABIAN SEA — The USS Abraham Lincoln has survived hostile waters, 260 days at sea, thousands of aircraft movements and the expenditure of 1.5 million pounds of ordnance. Then it encountered something for which no modern…

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Andy Burnham Messages Fake Trump Official

Isla Campbell

Andy Burnham Messages Fake Trump Official, Finally Establishes Diplomatic Relations at His Own Level Impostor Poses as Trump’s Chief of Staff, Burnham Responds Before Checking Whether America Has WhatsApp Downing Street confirms nothing important was disclosed, prompting an urgent inquiry into whether the prime minister possesses anything important to disclose The London Prat Political Desk LONDON — Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with an unknown individual impersonating Donald Trump’s…

International News

Andy Burnham FREE British Missile Blueprints

Vivienne Pratfall

Andy Burnham Gives Ukraine British Missile Blueprints, Royal Mail Promises Delivery Before the Next Russian Empire Moscow threatens retaliation after Britain discovers the one export industry still functioning is extremely long-range disagreement. KYIV — Britain will help Ukraine produce long-range missiles by permitting the release of classified information about British-made components, according to Reuters reporting on Andy Burnham’s first visit to Ukraine. Britain is therefore sharing missile blueprints with Kyiv, although officials…

Governance International News

Andy Burnham Promises Closer EU Ties

Violet Woolf

Andy Burnham Promises Closer EU Ties, Britain Checks Whether Brexit Came With a 30-Day Returns Policy New prime minister begins a “bold” European reset after discovering Brussels kept Britain’s old toothbrush and half the fishing arguments. LONDON — Prime Minister Andy Burnham says Britain must be “bolder” in pursuing closer relations with the European Union, according to Reuters reporting on Burnham’s proposed UK–EU reset. The announcement confirms that Brexit has entered its…

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Starmer’s Final EU Plan

Aishwarya Rao

Starmer’s Final EU Plan Offered 100,000 Young Europeans Home Fees, Britain Orders One More Sofa Bed Former government contemplated a sweeping youth-mobility bargain while the housing department responded with a fitted sheet and an encouraging leaflet LONDON — Keir Starmer’s government considered allowing as many as 100,000 young Europeans a year to come to Britain and giving EU students access to domestic university fees as part of a wider Brussels…

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Cyberattack Disables UK Generator

Harriet Collins

Cyberattack Disables UK Generator for Four Days, Government Changes Password to BRITAIN123! Officials insist the wider grid remained safe, largely because the hackers may not have found the underscore LONDON — Britain has briefed energy-company chiefs after reports that Iran-linked hackers disabled a small UK generator for four days in July. Officials stress that nobody lost power, the wider grid was never threatened and the generator was tiny. This is…

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Ukrainian Battlefield AI

Emily Cartwright

Britain Uses Ukrainian Battlefield AI to Protect Sensitive Sites, Ministry Starts With the Biscuit Tin Avengers AI Labs offers millions of real-world battlefield observations while Whitehall asks whether the AI can identify who stole the custard creams LONDON — Britain has become the first international partner granted access to Ukraine’s Avengers AI Labs, a formidable database built from battlefield cameras, infrared sensors and millions of observations of tanks, artillery, drones…

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LIFE IS BETTER IN FRANCE

Junglepussy

Britain Tackles Illegal Migration by Becoming France’s Tourist Board in 64 Languages Home Office assures prospective Channel passengers that France offers opportunity, romance and significantly fewer Home Office officials LONDON — The British Government has opened a bold new front in its struggle against illegal Channel crossings by advertising France as a land of happiness, opportunity and conveniently stationary residents. The campaign builds upon the Home Office’s use of multilingual digital advertisements…

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Iran’s Campaign Against One College Student

Lowri Griffiths

Operation Fully Monitored: The Complete Record of Iran’s Campaign Against One College Student A regime with satellites in its slogans and a bug zapper in its budget spent eleven months, $10 million of imaginary money and its entire remaining dignity trying to frighten a twenty-year-old with an Xbox TEHRAN — There are moments when a government tells you precisely what it has become, and the Islamic Republic of Iran has just…

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African Parks Removes Prince Harry From Board

Yasmina Khan

African Parks Removes Prince Harry From Board in Organisation’s Most Successful Royal Relocation Duke’s decade of committed service ends after organisation decides endangered species already face enough threats without a Sussex documentary crew JOHANNESBURG — Prince Harry is leaving the board of African Parks after the conservation organisation announced a “governance refresh”, the elegant charitable phrase for changing the locks while thanking the former keyholder for his distinguished interest in doors. Thinking About It……

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Americans Prefer Their British Royals Still Living in Britain

Yasmina Khan

Royal Foundation Raises £8.7 Million From Americans Who Apparently Prefer Their British Royals Still Living in Britain William and Kate win the transatlantic charity contest as Harry commissions a six-part documentary about how losing made him feel LONDON — The Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales received nearly £8.7 million from its American fundraising arm in 2025, according to Yahoo Entertainment’s report on William and Kate’s transatlantic fundraising…