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Gary Glitter Pleads Not Guilty

Harriet Collins

Gary Glitter Pleads Not Guilty as Britain Discovers the Seventies Have Filed Another Complaint Glam rock nostalgia suffers another catastrophic product recall as lawyers, tabloids, television executives and the British establishment gather around the nation’s least necessary revival Former pop star Gary Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, has pleaded not guilty to eight charges involving alleged historical sexual offences against a girl, thereby giving Britain another opportunity to…

Culture International Social

CHOSEN BRICK Spyware

Tinsel Vandergraph

CHOSEN BRICK Spyware: Iran’s Bricks Finally Went Digital Why CHOSEN BRICK Proves Tehran’s Secret Police Finally Discovered Remote Work Iranian intelligence has allegedly entered the exciting world of digital transformation, after Western intelligence agencies warned that state-linked cyber operators are using malware known as CHOSEN BRICK against dissidents, activists and journalists abroad. The warning was issued by cybersecurity and intelligence agencies in the United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Britain’s National…

Culture Relationships Social

Successful Marriage Requires Friendship

Mei Lin Chen

Philosopher Says Successful Marriage Requires Friendship, Husbands Relieved Expensive French Restaurants Apparently Optional Candle manufacturers and restaurants serving six asparagus tips for £38 demand immediate philosophical retraction Husbands around the world have welcomed philosophical claims that happy marriages depend heavily on friendship after initially misunderstanding the findings as proof they never have to make a restaurant reservation again. “Fantastic,” said one married man, immediately deleting OpenTable. His wife has reportedly…

International

New Russian Missile Can Travel 500 Miles and Weave

Carys Evans

New Russian Missile Can Travel 500 Miles and Weave Near Target, Apparently Trained on Moscow Taxi Drivers Moscow’s reported 500-mile weapon may swerve, merge and change lanes without signaling near its target, while Europe discovers that defending civilization has become largely a question of buying interceptors in bulk MOSCOW — Russia is reportedly preparing final tests of a new ballistic missile capable of traveling approximately 800 kilometers, or 500 miles,…

America Business Technology

Four-Hour Musk Documentary Discovers Hatred

Alan Nafzger

Four-Hour Musk Documentary Discovers Hatred Has Remarkable Battery Life Anti-Capitalist Audience Proves Human Attention Span Can Reach Four Hours Provided Somebody Rich Is Being Blamed Alex Gibney’s Musk, a nearly four-hour documentary examining Elon Musk, has provided social scientists with an unexpected breakthrough: human beings apparently do possess magnificent attention spans, provided the subject is somebody they already dislike. The documentary premiered on the festival circuit in 2026 and examines Musk’s businesses,…

Relationships Social

Happiest Couples Are Basically Best Friends

Dr. Ingrid Gustafsson, Ph.D.

Scientists Confirm Happiest Couples Are Basically Best Friends Who Also Argue About the Thermostat Decades of relationship research culminate in discovery that true love survives children, mortgages and one spouse quietly setting the house to 67 degrees Scientists studying successful marriages have reached a conclusion that threatens to destabilize both the wedding industry and the residential heating sector: the happiest husbands and wives increasingly resemble best friends who happen to…

Relationships

Romance Eventually Becomes “Two” Weird

Camden Rose

Marriage Experts Discover Romance Eventually Becomes Two Weird People Sending Each Other Memes From Different Rooms Telecommunications industry stunned to learn modern intimacy now involves texting a person located 23 feet away Relationship experts have announced that romantic love undergoes a remarkable transformation after prolonged exposure to marriage, eventually converting two passionate young lovers into middle-aged correspondents who send each other memes from opposite ends of the same building. The…

Business Technology

Elon Musk Moves Into an Airstream

Harper Thames

Elon Musk Moves Into an Airstream to Personally Babysit His Supercomputer The world’s richest man rediscovers the ancient business strategy known as living above the shop, one Airstream at a time There is a certain kind of American genius that spends thirty years building rockets, buying social networks and racing toward artificial superintelligence, only to solve its biggest logistics problem with a lawn chair and an extension cord. That genius…

Relationships

Secret to Happy Marriage

Cyndi Himmelstiere

Philosophy Expert Reveals Secret to Happy Marriage: Find Someone Whose Weirdness Doesn’t Require Police Intervention New research suggests lifelong romance may depend less on finding your soulmate than finding someone whose peculiarities can legally occupy the same property Philosophers have spent more than two thousand years investigating love, beauty, virtue and the meaning of existence, only to discover that successful marriage may ultimately come down to finding one person whose…

Culture Current Absurdities History Lifestyle Social

Fiat 126 Accelerates From 0 to 60 in Approximately One Government

Alan Nafzger

  Fiat 126 Accelerates From 0 to 60 in Approximately One Government Italian-Polish engineering masterpiece proves the Fiat 126’s 23 horsepower is plenty, provided nobody is in a hurry, carrying luggage, or travelling uphill Automotive historians have confirmed that the legendary Fiat 126 (sometimes typed online as “Fiat126,” one word, as though the hyphen itself required planning permission) could accelerate from zero to 60 mph in approximately the same amount…

Business Technology

Anthropic Becomes Profitable

Alan Nafzger

Anthropic Becomes Profitable Once the Electricity Bill Is Ignored Silicon Valley discovers revolutionary accounting principle: expenses are considerably smaller when nobody opens the envelope The New Economics of Artificial Intelligence SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic has reportedly achieved the great dream of modern capitalism: profitability, provided everyone agrees not to mention one particular wire running into the building. The breakthrough came after financial analysts realized that the company’s enormous electricity consumption…

Technology Business

Claude Comes Clean about Doomsday

AMW

Claude Comes Clean: The Robot Uprising Talk Was Just IPO Marketing All Along In a Shocking Twist, the Doomsday Chatter Was Never About Doom — It Was About Valuation Okay. Fine. It’s time to come clean. All that talk about existential risk, misaligned objectives, and the faint possibility that a sufficiently advanced language model could someday do Something Very Bad? That wasn’t a safety briefing. That was a marketing campaign…

Culture History International Social

7th Royal Sussex Stopped Panzers With Rifles

Alan Nafzger

7th Royal Sussex Sent to France to Build Airfields, Asked to Stop Panzers With Rifles and a Positive Attitude Brave 7th Royal Sussex Territorials Discover the British Army’s 1940 Definition of Light Duties Meant Facing the 1st Panzer Division at Amiens With Whatever Was in the Cupboard Military historians have confirmed that the 7th Royal Sussex arrived in France in 1940 under circumstances demonstrating that Britain’s greatest wartime resource was…

Governance Social

London Council Raises Tax

Margaret Colley

London Council Raises Tax to Record Level After Exhaustive Search Reveals Residents Still Possess Some Investigators shocked to discover several households retaining traces of disposable income LONDON — A London council has moved toward a substantial council tax increase after financial investigators reportedly discovered that some residents still possessed small quantities of money not yet committed to housing, energy, transport, food, parking or the purchase of one coffee near a railway…

Business Culture Social Sports

Betting Giant Reports Strong Operating Profit

Harper Thames

Betting Giant Reports Strong Operating Profit, Takes Enormous Gamble on Employing Fewer People Corporate bookmakers discover most attractive odds are apparently against payroll LONDON — A major betting business has demonstrated confidence in probability by combining strong financial performance with job reductions, placing what analysts describe as a sizeable corporate wager that fewer employees can continue producing plenty of money. The strategy is common enough to have its own unwritten equation:…

Culture Governance Social

Pubs Begin Accepting Digital ID

Julie de Burgh

Pubs Begin Accepting Digital ID, Drunk Man at Bar Now Required to Prove He Exists Electronically Centuries-old British drinking tradition finally upgraded with software LONDON — British pubs have entered the digital age by accepting electronic identification, creating a historic moment in which ordering a pint may involve more advanced technology than operating the pub’s plumbing. The change promises convenience for customers who no longer wish to carry physical identification. Instead,…

Business America Current Absurdities Technology

Four-Hour Musk Documentary

Alan Nafzger

Four-Hour Musk Documentary Discovers Left-Wing Hatred Has Remarkable Battery Life Anti-Capitalist Audience Proves Human Attention Span Can Reach Four Hours Provided Somebody Rich Is Being Blamed Alex Gibney’s Musk, a nearly four-hour documentary examining Elon Musk, has provided social scientists with an unexpected breakthrough: human beings apparently do possess magnificent attention spans, provided the subject is somebody they already dislike. The documentary premiered on the festival circuit in 2026 and examines Musk’s…

Business Culture Governance Social

UK Inflation Hits 3.1%

Alan Nafzger

UK Inflation Hits 3.1% as Government Unveils Revolutionary Cost-of-Living Strategy: Stop Buying Things Treasury discovers households spend significantly less when unable to afford anything LONDON — Britain has unveiled a radical new strategy for controlling household expenditure: citizens are being encouraged to avoid purchasing goods and services, particularly those traditionally regarded as useful. The policy emerged naturally after rising prices prompted households to reduce spending. Economists immediately recognised the breakthrough. “For…

Culture Governance News Social

Piddington Votes to Leave UK

AMW

Piddington Votes to Leave United Kingdom, Becomes First British Village to Attempt Brexit From Brexit Oxfordshire community begins difficult process of taking back control from people who already took back control PIDDINGTON, OXFORDSHIRE — Britain’s constitutional arrangements entered what experts are calling “the village-hall phase” after Piddington voted symbolically to leave the United Kingdom, becoming the first English community to look at Brexit and conclude that the principal problem was insufficient…

Business Social

Ladbrokes Owner Cuts 400 Jobs

Alan Nafzger

Ladbrokes Owner Cuts 400 Jobs, Employees Discover House Really Does Always Win Workers learn oldest rule in gambling applies particularly well to payroll LONDON — Hundreds of employees facing job cuts at a major betting company have been introduced to one of gambling’s most reliable principles: however complicated the odds appear, the house tends to finish ahead. Workers reportedly received the news without being offered an early-cash-out button. Why This Betting…

Governance Social

Wandsworth Announces Record Council-Tax Rise

Alan Nafzger

Wandsworth Announces Record Council-Tax Rise, Introduces Exciting New Public Service Called ‘Giving Us More Money’ Borough promises residents premium access to paying considerably more LONDON — Residents of Wandsworth are being introduced to an innovative new local-government service provision model under which citizens transfer additional money to the council and experience a powerful sense of civic participation. The scheme is known informally as Giving Us More Money. Officials insist this should…

Culture Business

McLaren Finally Builds SUV

Alan Nafzger

McLaren Finally Builds SUV After Discovering Millionaires Occasionally Need Somewhere to Put the Labrador Supercar maker confronts terrifying engineering problem known as luggage SURREY — McLaren has embraced the SUV after researchers made a startling discovery about wealthy customers: some of them own dogs. For decades the British supercar industry focused obsessively on horsepower, aerodynamics, acceleration and carbon fibre while neglecting the equally important question: where does Hugo sit? The Labrador…

Culture Governance Social

Oxfordshire Village Declares Independence

Alan Nafzger

Oxfordshire Village Declares Independence, Immediately Begins Negotiations for Trade Deal With Tesco in Bicester New microstate discovers sovereignty is difficult without semi-skimmed milk OXFORDSHIRE — An Oxfordshire village pursuing symbolic independence has entered emergency trade negotiations with nearby Tesco after officials realised political sovereignty is considerably easier to declare than supermarket logistics. The crisis began shortly after residents imagined life as an independent state. Flags could be designed. Passports printed. Speeches…

Business Education Social

Employers Seeking Entry-Level Workers

Alan Nafzger

Employers Seeking Entry-Level Workers With Five Years’ Experience Shocked to Discover Applicants Have Been Busy Attending School Businesses demand graduates arrive pre-trained, pre-experienced and preferably middle-aged LONDON — British employers advertising entry-level positions have expressed frustration after discovering that many young applicants possess little professional experience because they have committed the strategic error of being young. Recruiters described the development as unexpected. “We’re advertising for beginners,” explained hiring consultant Julia Merriweather,…

Current Absurdities Governance Social

Heatwave Creates Thousands More Potholes

Alan Nafzger

Heatwave Creates Thousands More Potholes, Britain Finally Achieves Fully Integrated Road-and-Crazy-Golf Network Motorists urged to bring putters and allow extra three hours for the back nine LONDON — Britain has transformed its deteriorating road network into Europe’s largest unplanned crazy-golf course after heat damage contributed to yet more potholes, creating exciting new recreational opportunities for anyone attempting to drive to work. Transport officials rejected accusations of infrastructure failure. They prefer the…

Culture Business Governance Social

Tube Workers Consider More Strikes

Caitlin Moran

Tube Workers Consider More Strikes for Four-Day Week, Commuters Excited to Experience Zero-Day Week Londoners prepare for innovative transport model involving considerably less transport LONDON — London commuters are preparing for the possibility of further Underground disruption amid a dispute involving working arrangements, with some passengers enthusiastically noting that a four-day working week could produce an exciting zero-day travelling week for everybody else. The Underground has always been more than transportation.…

America Business News Technology

Four-Hour Marxist Documentary

Alan Nafzger

Four-Hour Marxist Documentary Explains Why Man Who Builds Rockets Is Dangerous and People Hating Him for Four Hours Are Productive Film Festival Audience Cheers as the Musk Documentary Redistributes Billionaire Accomplishments to Everybody Before the Popcorn Is Redistributed to Nobody A nearly four hour documentary about Elon Musk has successfully demonstrated the central contradiction of modern capitalism. One man can build companies involved in rockets, electric cars, satellites, artificial intelligence…

Governance Social

Britain Introduces Digital ID for Buying Alcohol

Alan Nafzger

Britain Introduces Digital ID for Buying Alcohol, Finally Adds Government Bureaucracy to Activity People Had Mastered for Centuries Nation upgrades ancient drinking ritual with authentication protocols LONDON — Britain has modernised alcohol purchasing by introducing digital age verification, successfully adding twenty-first-century identity technology to an activity humans managed adequately when taverns still had horses outside. For centuries the procedure was elegantly simple. Customer enters pub. Customer requests drink. Landlord examines customer.…

Business Culture

McLaren Announces New SUV

Alan Nafzger

McLaren Announces First SUV for Drivers Who Need 200mph Supercar to Reach Waitrose Over Speed Bumps British engineering finally solves problem of arriving at artisanal olives insufficiently quickly WOKING, SURREY — McLaren has entered the luxury SUV market, addressing the long-neglected needs of motorists who require supercar performance while travelling the 1.7 miles between a gated driveway and Waitrose. The new vehicle is expected to combine extraordinary acceleration with sufficient luggage…

Governance News

Britain Could Get More Potholes

Camden Rose

RAC Warns Britain Could Get More Potholes, Nation Asks Where Exactly They Plan to Put Them Highway engineers reportedly investigating possibility of stacking them LONDON — Britain’s motorists were placed on high alert after warnings that the nation may experience even more potholes, raising the obvious engineering question of where precisely additional potholes can be installed now that most available road surface appears to have been allocated. Transport specialists have begun…