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Britain Reforms Pensions

Aishwarya Rao

Britain Reforms Pensions by Moving Retirement Somewhere Beyond the Natural Lifespan Government promises bigger pension pots, better investment and a state pension available shortly after workers complete their final archaeological layer LONDON — Britain has begun another historic programme of pension reform after ministers discovered that retirement costs money, old people remain stubbornly alive and the national economy cannot be financed indefinitely by selling one another increasingly expensive two-bedroom flats.…

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Avengers: Doomsday

Asha Mwangi

Avengers: Doomsday Assembles Every Living Actor After Marvel Discovers New Characters Require Introductions Robert Downey Jr. returns as Doctor Doom, Chris Evans returns as Captain America and audiences return carrying flowcharts, medication and proof they watched 19 streaming series HOLLYWOOD — Marvel Studios has released the first full trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, confirming that Robert Downey Jr. will return as Doctor Doom, Chris Evans will return as Steve Rogers and…

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Celtexit Planned for Britain

Morag Sinclair

Celtexit: Britain Planned Its Breakup Before Anyone Even Voted The constitutional panic is magnificent: Reform has not won the next election, yet several politicians are already measuring Britain for four separate removal vans. Officials have not agreed on a single policy for the imaginary government they are furious about, but they have already agreed on a name for the imaginary divorce: Celtexit. It is Brexit’s damper, sadder cousin, conceived not in…

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Britain’s Economic Decline

Vivienne Pratfall

How Britain’s Economic Decline Left It as Poor as Mississippi Britain combined European socialism, American debt, record immigration and Victorian infrastructure, then expressed surprise when GDP per person disappeared behind a wheelie bin. Britain has finally achieved the economic equality politicians promised. Unfortunately, the equality is with Mississippi. According to The Atlantic’s examination of Britain’s productivity collapse, British output per person now sits barely above that of America’s poorest state after nearly…

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Guardian CEO Pay

Yasmina Khan

Guardian CEO Pay Hits £5 Million, and Somehow That’s Everyone Else’s Fault By Freja Lindholm | London The Guardian has confirmed that their corporate bosses now earn 130 times the salary of the average worker, a statistic so alarming that Guardian executives reportedly required a full afternoon, a chauffeured car and a modest £5.06 million to properly recover from it. According to the newspaper’s own investigation, the median pay package for…

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Andy Burnham’s Trump Tribute Act

Violet Woolf

Andy Burnham Trump Tribute Act: 15 Ways Britain’s New PM Is Rewiring Populism By the Prat.uk Political Desk Andy Burnham has denied, repeatedly and with the wounded dignity of a man accused of enjoying golf, that his premiership bears any resemblance whatsoever to Donald Trump’s. This is a reasonable position. Trump built towers. Burnham is building a second Downing Street out of a former Greggs. The two men have almost…

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Harry Allowed to Meet King

Astrid Holgersson

Harry Allowed to Meet King After Agreeing Not to Turn Conversation Into Six-Part Documentary Palace officials confiscate one memoir manuscript, three lapel microphones and a producer disguised as a ceremonial footman LONDON — Prince Harry has reportedly been permitted to meet King Charles after passing an unusually thorough palace security inspection and signing a legally binding promise not to transform the private conversation into a six-part documentary, a twelve-episode podcast or a…

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Spain’s Economic Miracle: A Sports Trophy

Emily Cartwright

Spain World Cup Win Exposes a Debt-Fuelled Economic Miracle When a Heavily Indebted Nation Wins the World Cup, Economists Must Ask Whether Bankruptcy Is the Ultimate Performance-Enhancing Drug Spain won the 2026 World Cup after defeating Argentina 1–0, leaving international football facing its deepest philosophical crisis since FIFA discovered that a hydration break could also contain six advertisements, a tactical lecture, and a sponsored reminder to gamble responsibly. The tournament…

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America’s World Cup

Judi Online

America Gets Hold of the World Cup Final and Immediately Invents a £9,500 Members’ Bar NEW JERSEY — There is a very old and very British tradition of standing on a cold terrace, eating a pie of uncertain provenance, and paying a perfectly reasonable sum to watch football. Naturally, the moment the World Cup Final landed on American soil, this tradition was taken out back and shot. According to Britannica Money’s…

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Celtexit Theatened by UK Marxists

Morag Sinclair

Celtexit: Democracy Is Sacred Until It Produces a Government That Actually Works The constitutional panic is magnificent: Reform has not won the next election, yet several politicians are already measuring Britain for four separate removal vans. Marxists Threaten to Dissolve United Kingdom Unless Failed Policies Receive Another 100 Years to Begin Working — Welcome to Celtexit Celtic progressives announce they will take their ball, their bureaucracy and several billion pounds…

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Spain Files for Bankruptcy

Alan Nafzger

Spain Files for Bankruptcy: Soccer Team Asking for Donations to Get Home Socialist Government Leaves Spanish Men’s Team Stranded in New Jersey EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY — Spain’s men’s national soccer team remained stranded Monday in a New Jersey hotel after the Spanish government filed for bankruptcy, cancelled the squad’s return flight and suggested the newly crowned champions “explore community-based transportation solutions.” The announcement came less than twenty-four hours after…

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Royal PDA Declared Acceptable

Vivienne Pratfall

Royal PDA Declared Acceptable After Experts Confirm It Costs Taxpayers Absolutely Nothing Prince and Princess of Wales Discover Affection May Be Displayed Without a Subscription Deal, Six-Part Documentary or Accompanying Memoir The Prince and Princess of Wales have caused a minor constitutional disturbance after sharing a kiss and holding hands at the Royal Charity Polo Cup, prompting experts to confirm that public affection between married people remains legal, privately funded and,…

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Bronze Comes Home

Alan Nafzger

Bronze Comes Home After Gold and Silver Make Other Arrangements As the comedian Jimmy Carr once put it about English optimism, “We don’t fear failure — we frame it.” Nowhere was that more visible than Miami Gardens, Florida, where England didn’t so much win football’s holy grail as return home clutching the runner-up’s consolation prize and insisting it was actually the good one. England Beat France 6-4 in the Most England…

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London’s Emergency Mediterranean Status

Emily Cartwright

London Reaches 29°C, Entire City Applies for Emergency Mediterranean Status Councils Scramble to Rebrand Roundabouts as “Piazzas” As temperatures in the capital nudged a blistering 29°C — roughly the internal temperature of a packed Central Line carriage on any ordinary February morning — Londoners have responded with the only reasonable course of action available to a nation with four working air conditioners: total societal collapse, followed immediately by ice cream.…

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London’s Six-Month “We’ll Definitely Do Drinks” Queue

Camden Rose

London Woman Discovers She Wasn’t Being Ghosted, She Was Merely Stuck in London’s Six-Month “We’ll Definitely Do Drinks” Queue LONDON — A London marketing executive has reportedly spent three months believing she was in the early stages of a promising romance before discovering she had, in fact, accidentally enrolled herself in Britain’s least efficient institution: the modern London dating scene. Friends say the confusion is understandable, since the early symptoms of…

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London Dating Now an Official Olympic Event

Alan Nafzger

London Dating Now an Official Olympic Event After Locals Complete 47 First Dates Without Requiring Therapy, a Solicitor, or a Will Capital’s Singles Discover Soulmates Are Nice, But a Zone 1 Postcode Is Practically a Marriage Licence LONDON — Officials have reportedly declared modern London dating an endurance sport after researchers discovered the average singleton now spends more time refreshing dating apps than sleeping, eating, or pretending to understand the Piccadilly…

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Divorced Women: Most Fought-Over Demographic

Caitlin Moran

London’s Divorced Women Now the Most Fought-Over Demographic in London, Property Agents Confirm They Saw It Coming First By our Marriage & Mortgage Correspondent, filing from a Zone 2 coffee shop where the oat milk costs more than some people’s first weddings London’s dating market has a new most-wanted list, and for once it isn’t the 6-foot, “loves to travel,” suspiciously well-lit man from Clapham. According to absolutely nobody with…

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A. A. Milne’s WWii Memories

Junglepussy

Winnie-the-Pooh Declared Too Cheerful for Wartime Britain: How A. A. Milne’s Hundred Acre Wood Accidentally Explains Our WWII Memories A.A. Milne meets WWII memories in this satirical dissection of Britain’s Blitz-era bureaucracy, starring Pooh, Eeyore, and one man in every pub who personally won the war. Every nation remembers its war differently. The Germans built museums. The French built cheese-based resistance mythology. The British, meanwhile, built an entire wartime psychology…

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American Assassination Drama

Isla Campbell

Suffolk Airbase Unexpectedly Central To American Assassination Drama, Locals Baffled It is a well-established rule of British life that nothing of consequence happens in Suffolk, and yet here we are, watching RAF Mildenhall play a supporting role in what may or may not be a genuine attempt on the life of the President of the United States. The facts: Israel has told America that Iran has drawn up a fresh…

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Marxists Blame Trump for USMNT Loss

Mei Lin Chen

Marxists Blame Trump for USMNT Loss, Quietly Ignore Coach Who Said Otherwise America’s World Cup Exit Becomes First Soccer Match Officially Decided by Cable-News Panel Seattle, Washington — The United States men’s national team lost 4-1 to Belgium in the World Cup Round of 16, but according to America’s emergency committee of politically exhausted online experts, the real score was Trump 4, Democracy 1. Coach Mauricio Pochettino said the team…

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London Landlords

Tinsel Vandergraph

London Landlords Renting News The Great London Rent Illusion: Wide-Angle Photos, Narrow Actual Rooms Why the fridge only opens once someone else leaves the flat. LONDON— London landlords this week celebrated another record-breaking year of turning architectural optimism into monthly direct debits after the National Association of Optimistic Estate Agents announced that the average renter is now expected to pay £2,400 per month for what brochures describe as an “intimate…

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Britain’s AI Cyber Shield

Tinsel Vandergraph

Britain’s AI Cyber Shield: Keep Calm, AI Already Knows London — Britain’s cyber security officials have unveiled an ambitious plan to create an autonomous, AI-powered “Cyber Shield” capable of scanning networks, identifying vulnerabilities and eventually fixing security problems without waiting for a sleep-deprived IT technician to return from lunch. The government’s official call to action invites AI companies to help build a defensive system that reacts at machine speed against increasingly automated…

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Norway Called Racist

Margaret Colley

Norway Called Racist For Not Hiring Africans To Play World Cup Norwegian Team Are Actually Norwegians — Nation Accused of Discriminatory Practice of Fielding Its Own Citizens Hard Rock Stadium — In a diplomatic incident that has left the entire continent of Europe clutching its pearls and its passports, the Norwegian national football federation stands accused this week of the gravest sporting crime of the 2026 World Cup: hiring actual…

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Icing on The Cake

Margaret Colley

Government Announces New Tax on Icing, Calls It the Icing on the Cake Britain Solves Every National Crisis by Decorating It, While Ministers Insist Buttercream Is Now Official Economic Policy LONDON –– The Government unveiled what officials described as “Britain’s sweetest fiscal reform in generations” after announcing a new National Icing Levy, assuring taxpayers that adding another tax was simply “the icing on the cake.” Ministers insisted the levy would transform…

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Moron’s Accuse Kate Middleton of Being an AI Hologram

Vivienne Pratfall

Kate Middleton Accused of Being an AI Hologram After Committing the Crime of Changing Her Trousers LONDON Discovers a New Conspiracy Theory: The Princess Has More Than One Pair of Trousers LONDON. Kate Middleton’s fans are rallying to her defense this week after a small but extremely confident corner of the MORONIC internet concluded that the Princess of Wales could not possibly have completed the National Three Peaks Challenge, because…

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Can Romelu Lukaku Actually Read?

Bethan Morgan

Romelu Lukaku Can’t Read, But He Can Absolutely DANCE: Lukaku Skips FIFA’s Paperwork and Goes Straight to the Dance Floor Belgium Smokes the U.S. 4-1, Then Files Its Appeal in Interpretive African Dance Belgium eliminated the United States 4-1 in the World Cup Round of 16 on Monday night in Seattle, and while nobody has confirmed whether Romelu Lukaku actually read FIFA’s 700-page disciplinary code on Folarin Balogun’s reinstated eligibility,…

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UEFA’s “Marxist” Press Release

Vivienne Pratfall

UEFA Discovers Politics Is Terrible… Right After Issuing a “Marxist” Press Release ⚽ Europe’s Football Bureaucrats Demand Games Stay Apolitical, Immediately Hold Three Emergency Political Meetings The marble corridors of UEFA echoed with self-congratulation this week after officials courageously declared that politics has absolutely no place in football… moments after publishing a press release that read like the minutes from a graduate seminar in political theory. The timing was, as…

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Getting Dressed Up in London

Carys Evans

Londoners Finally Discover ‘Getting Dressed Up’ Is a Revolutionary Lifestyle Choice After years of treating hoodies as formalwear, the capital cautiously experiments with buttons, collars, and trousers that haven’t been slept in. LONDON — Fashion experts claim a quiet rebellion is spreading across the capital as Londoners begin voluntarily dressing up simply to leave the house, a practice previously reserved for weddings, funerals, and pretending to be promoted on LinkedIn.…

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Thunderstorm Forums

Caitlin Moran

Man Writes 9,000-Word Reply Explaining Why Every Forecast Since 1998 Has Been Wrong Thunderstorm Forum declares lightning “too political,” renames it Sky Feedback, then spends six hours debating whether rain is wet. By Caitlin Moran and Clara Drizzlewick, Weather Correspondents, The London Prat Britain’s most respected online thunderstorm forum descended into full atmospheric civil war yesterday after a man named BarryNimbus1974 posted a 9,000-word reply explaining why every official weather…

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Iconic Radio

Alan Nafzger

Iconic Radio Declared Official Background Noise of British Civilization Scientists Confirm Britons Cannot Butter Toast Unless Iconic Radio Is Calmly Discussing Shipping Forecasts LONDON — Britain’s iconic radio stations have officially been declared “critical national infrastructure” after researchers discovered millions of Britons become disoriented if they spend more than twelve minutes without hearing someone politely introduce a song recorded in 1978. The report concludes that radio in Britain is no…