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 đđ. (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…
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…
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…
Elon Musk Declares War on Ancient Greece, Hollywood Declares War on History, Popcorn Declares Neutrality đż 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…
How Pope Alexander VI Turned Vatican Politics Into the Ultimate Family Business In Renaissance Rome, getting ahead in the Catholic Church didn’t require theological brilliance or spiritual devotionâyou just needed to sleep with the right cardinal. Pope Alexander VI, born…
AI Models Asked About American Revolution: All Agree Britain Was Obviously Right Large Language Models Reveal They’ll Tell Anyone AnythingâBut Admit Colonies Were Being Ungrateful Sods In what researchers are calling “the least surprising development in artificial intelligence history,” the…
Top 10 AIs Predict 2030: A Satirical Glimpse Into Our Algorithmic Overlords’ Crystal Balls We asked the world’s leading large language models to gaze into their training data and tell us what AI will look like in 2030. What we…
Royal Daughters Launch Desperate Mission To Stop Mom’s Tell-All MemoirâWhat Fergie Knows Will Shock You Princess Beatrice and Eugenie Deploy Every Weapon in Daughterly Arsenal to Prevent Literary Apocalypse According to multiple reports from The Express and The Telegraph, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess…
đ¨ Exclusive Investigation: Newly “Uncovered” Portrait Proves Anne Boleyn Was a Full-Blown Witch đ§ââď¸ (Obviously) In a revelation so shocking it will surely rewrite every children’s book, costume drama, and witchy themed sourdough label, a newly discovered portrait of Anne Boleyn has…
Hollywood Discovers Law and Order After Tom Cruise Loses a Watch There are turning points in history. The moon landing. The invention of pizza delivery tracking. And now, the moment Tom Cruise reportedly looked at his wrist in London and realized his…
Nation Relieved As Prince Andrew Relocated To Wolferton Village Where Everyone Thinks Andrew Can Fix Their Shed Roof WOLFERTON, NORFOLKÂ â In what royal aides are calling a “strategic deployment to a lower-expectations environment,” Prince Andrew has reportedly settled into the…
Xi Purges Generals, Accidentally Purges the Instructions Manual Too Beijing woke up this week to discover that the world’s largest military had been placed on a brief administrative hold whilst management “sorted a few things out.” President Xi Jinping, a…
