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Tube Passengers Stop Man Exposing Himself

Carys Evans

Tube Passengers Stop Man Exposing Himself, Spend Next Year Discovering They Were Apparently the Problem British Transport Police drop case after exhaustive investigation into why Londoners failed to follow the traditional emergency procedure of staring furiously at the floor Britain received encouraging news this week when authorities confirmed that three Tube passengers will not be prosecuted for the increasingly controversial London activity known as doing something. The passengers had become…

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Harry and Meghan Closer to Royal Lodge

Alan Nafzger

Harry and Meghan Edge Closer to Royal Lodge as Britain Runs Out of Buildings to Be Angry About Sussexes may trade a $650,000-a-year California carrying bill for a 30-room Windsor downsizing opportunity previously occupied by Andrew WINDSOR, ENGLAND — A report that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may be one step closer to occupying Royal Lodge has given Britain the reassuring news that the national housing crisis now includes people choosing between two…

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Labour’s New Staycation Scheme

Alan Nafzger

Labour Announces Bold New Staycation Scheme: Just Never Actually Leave the Airport Millions of Brits who saved all year for two weeks in Alicante get an all-inclusive package at Gatwick’s departures floor instead, courtesy of a government that owns 49% of the reason you’re still here For decades, the British holidaymaker has followed a sacred, unbroken ritual. Save all year. Argue with the family about whether to bring the big…

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Hailey Bieber Goes Completely Naked

Alan Nafzger

Hailey Bieber Goes Completely Naked to Show Off Tan Lines, Fashion Industry Confirms Clothes Have Finally Been Eliminated From Fashion Model Removes Entire Outfit, Saves Magazine Editors Three Hours Identifying Designer The international fashion industry entered an exciting new era this week after Hailey Bieber posed nude for Ice Magazine, apparently confirming that after roughly 170,000 years of human experimentation with clothing, fashion has finally worked its way back to not…

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King Charles Braces for New Diana Book

Alan Nafzger

King Charles Braces for New Diana Book, Discovers 1997 Still Hasn’t Finished With Him Palace fears an “unfiltered” Charles Spencer memoir after relying for three decades on carefully ironed history LONDON — King Charles is reportedly “bracing for the worst” ahead of Charles Spencer’s forthcoming memoir about Princess Diana, according to this report on the King’s reaction to the Spencer memoir, forcing Buckingham Palace to confront the monarchy’s greatest constitutional weakness: another…

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London Women Discover Boyfriends Had Triple Lives

Alan Nafzger

Love Cheats Women Discover Boyfriends Had Triple Lives, Still Agree Briefcases Are the Real Red Flag Channel 4 confirms romance fraud can be prevented by checking passports, relatives and whether his billionaire mother has ever met him LONDON—Women appearing in the second series of Channel 4’s Love Cheats have revealed that their devoted partners maintained elaborate webs of deception, invented personal tragedies and, in one case, operated three simultaneous lives without apparently needing…

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Trump’s $5,000 Cheques Could Lead to Slippery Slope

Alan Nafzger

Democrats Warn Trump’s $5,000 Cheques Could Lead to Ghastly Slippery Slope Where Taxpayers Start Asking Where the Rest of Their Money Went Washington reportedly terrified that handing punters recognisable sums of money might expose a dangerous link between government revenue and the people who actually paid it Democrats and assorted Washington fiscal traditionalists have this week thrown a proper wobbly over President Donald Trump’s proposal to hand every American adult…

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AI Escapes Test Environment

Alan Nafzger

AI Escapes Test Environment, Immediately Forms Secret Group Chat and Starts Cheating Humanity Spends Billions Creating Artificial Superintelligence, Discovers It Has Invented Employees SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists trying to determine whether artificial intelligence might someday behave like human beings received encouraging news this summer when roughly 1,200 AI agents allegedly found a way to communicate secretly, shared methods for cheating on their evaluation, developed an informal organization and eventually sent hundreds…

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Britain’s Economy Accidentally Grows 0.4%

Harriet Collins

Britain’s Economy Accidentally Grows 0.4%, Treasury Launches Investigation Into How Money Escaped Officials fear unexpected prosperity could encourage taxpayers to develop unrealistic expectations about keeping some of it LONDON. Britain’s economy unexpectedly grew 0.4% in July, four-tenths of a percentage point more than economists predicted, forcing the Treasury Friday to investigate how economic activity managed to occur without first completing a government consultation. The economy was 1.6% larger than a…

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British Schools Reach 40c

Alan Nafzger

British Schools Reach 40c, Department for Education Introduces GCSE Slow-Roasting Pupils lose 15 million teaching hours as government discovers Victorian classrooms were not designed for becoming Mediterranean LONDON. Pupils lost more than 15 million hours of education during Britain’s June heatwave after classrooms became so hot that some schools closed early, finally answering the question of what happens when a Victorian school building attempts to become an air fryer. More…

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NATS Boss Given One Week to Investigate

Camden Rose

NATS Boss Given One Week to Investigate NATS Boss, Promises NATS Boss Full Cooperation Britain pioneers revolutionary accountability system in which management interrogates itself until everyone’s holiday is over LONDON. Britain’s latest air-traffic-control failure cancelled roughly 1,300 flights in a single day, stranded passengers across the country and produced perhaps the boldest experiment in modern accountability: allowing management time to investigate management. A technical failure at NATS disrupted major British…

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English Wine Thrives While Beer Suffers

Alan Nafzger

English Wine Thrives While Beer Suffers, Climate Change Officially Joins the Upper Middle Class Heatwave favours sparkling wine over barley as British weather develops membership at Waitrose WEST SUSSEX. England’s record-breaking summer has produced promising conditions for sparkling wine while damaging barley yields, suggesting climate change has stopped being politically neutral and joined a household with a Labrador and an Aga. English winemakers expect an exceptional 2026 vintage, with Nyetimber…

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Joggers Receiving Speed Awareness Letters

Alan Nafzger

London Expands 20mph Roads Until Joggers Begin Receiving Speed Awareness Letters Capital moves closer to transport utopia where nobody dies in traffic because nobody reaches the destination LONDON. More than 61% of borough-managed roads across London now operate at 20 mph, raising the possibility that the capital’s fastest legal form of transport will soon be a frightened pedestrian carrying takeaway coffee. Greenwich is considering expanding 20 mph limits across almost…

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Westminster Declares Standing With Pint “Vertical Drinking”

Isabel Navarro

Westminster Declares Standing With Pint “Vertical Drinking,” Human Knees Await Licensing Decision Soho discovers British pub culture has become a geometry problem administered by people who apparently drink exclusively in conference rooms LONDON. Westminster council has retained restrictions discouraging “vertical drinking” in parts of Soho, officially transforming standing with a pint into an activity complicated enough to require specialist terminology. The council’s licensing policy favours seated drinking and table service…

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Greens Target Starmer’s Old Seat

Judi Online

Greens Target Starmer’s Old Seat After Discovering Labour Forgot Constituencies Contain Voters Holborn byelection forces governing party into humiliating traditional practice known as asking people for support LONDON. Green Party leader Zack Polanski has been selected to fight Labour in Keir Starmer’s former constituency of Holborn and St Pancras, creating an unexpected crisis for the governing party after officials discovered safe seats still contain actual voters. The October 8 byelection…

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Harry Declared Private Citizen

Alan Nafzger

Harry Declared Private Citizen, British Press Assigns 63 Reporters to Document His Privacy Duke schedules public charity appearances while newspapers investigate baffling possibility that private citizens occasionally leave home LONDON. Prince Harry has been formally characterised as a private citizen while announcing a series of public charitable engagements, causing Britain’s royal-media industry to experience the constitutional equivalent of dividing by zero. Harry is expected to attend Invictus-related events, launch an…

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Bayeux Tapestry Monetising Losing to France

Alan Nafzger

Bayeux Tapestry Arrives in Britain, Public Queues Nine Hours to Review Country’s 1066 Performance British Museum turns Norman conquest into hottest ticket in London, finally monetising losing to France LONDON. The Bayeux Tapestry has gone on public display in Britain for the first time, allowing thousands of Britons to queue enthusiastically for the opportunity to inspect documentary evidence that their ancestors lost badly in 1066. Demand has been extraordinary. Tens…

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Diana’s Revenge Dress Returns

Alan Nafzger

Diana’s Revenge Dress Returns: The Dress That Outlasted an Apology Sotheby’s Estimates the Revenge Dress at Up to $300,000, Though Britain Still Can’t Agree If It Was Fashion, Retaliation, or the Best Story Ever Buried Sotheby’s is preparing to auction Princess Diana’s revenge dress, the celebrated black Christina Stambolian gown worn to the Serpentine Gallery on 29 June 1994, the same evening a television documentary aired in which Prince Charles…

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Andy Burnham: Time to Start Disappointing People

Julie de Burgh

Andy Burnham: Time to Start Disappointing People Experts confirm Andy Burnham’s twelve political personalities are all authentic, although none has yet agreed to make an unpopular decision LONDON — Political scientists have concluded that Prime Minister Andy Burnham can change his personality, principles, accent, clothing and favourite economic system without becoming inauthentic, provided every transformation occurs naturally in the presence of a focus group. The academic case for this was set…

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Eighth-Grade Dropout’s $245 Million Bitcoin Theft

Yasmina Khan

Eighth-Grade Dropout’s $245 Million Bitcoin Theft Puts Every MBA Program to Shame A Singapore school dropout allegedly needed no diploma, no investment bank and no advanced mathematics to pull off the biggest Bitcoin theft prosecutors have ever charged as racketeering, merely somebody willing to read him a six-digit code The American business school establishment was thrown into a quiet identity crisis this week after 22-year-old Malone Lam, an eighth-grade dropout…

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Charles Tells Harry He’s a Private Citizen

Alan Nafzger

Charles Tells Harry He’s a Private Citizen in Public Letter, Then Wonders Why Private Phone Call Gets Awkward King Charles’ weekly call with Harry reportedly turns heated after Palace discovers email wasn’t passive-aggressive enough King Charles III has reportedly suffered the baffling discovery that publicly informing half the British establishment that your son is a “private citizen” can make the subsequent father-son telephone conversation slightly uncomfortable. The latest report says…

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Britain Now a Nuclear-Armed Islamic Republic

Alan Nafzger

Netanyahu Calls Britain a Nuclear-Armed Islamic Republic, British Government Relieved Someone Still Thinks Trident Works Andy Burnham objects after the Israeli prime minister rebrands Britain before Labour can finish the consultation LONDON — Benjamin Netanyahu has described Britain as “the Islamic republic of Britain” and “the first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon,” according to The Guardian, prompting Pakistan to file an emergency complaint for theft of national achievements. Britain Receives…

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England Gives Mayors Power to Tax Tourists

Dr. Ingrid Gustafsson, Ph.D.

England Gives Mayors Power to Tax Tourists, Municipal Marxists Discover Visitors Are Capitalists With Suitcases Burnham’s great devolution experiment hands power-drunk local politicians an uncapped new tourist-tax lever, because nothing says “Welcome to England” quite like discovering the mayor has added himself to your hotel bill MANCHESTER, ENGLAND — Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s government has announced that English mayors will be allowed to impose an Overnight Visitor Levy on hotels…

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Iceland EU Referendum Rejects Brussels

Vivienne Pratfall

Iceland EU Referendum Rejects Brussels for Actual Aeroplanes Brussels Promised Strategic Protection, but the Iceland EU Referendum Found Reykjavík Already Has NATO, America and a Coast Guard REYKJAVÍK, ICELAND — Iceland has declined to restart negotiations for European Union membership, dealing a humiliating setback to Brussels’ plan to become a global defence hegemon just as soon as France, Germany and Luxembourg agree on the font. The referendum was not a vote…

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Masked Protesters Shut Dover

Yasmina Khan

Masked Protesters Shut Dover, Westminster Horrified Citizens Have Located the Border Labour Says the Dover Border Crisis Is Improving Because Britain Is Now Losing Control More Efficiently DOVER, ENGLAND — Britain’s long-running experiment in managing illegal immigration through press releases, ministerial adjectives and very expensive conversations with France encountered an unexpected complication Saturday: several hundred people apparently decided to visit the border themselves. Masked demonstrators dressed in black blocked roads leading…

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London Seizes 3,393 E-Bikes

Alan Nafzger

London Seizes 3,393 E-Bikes After Discovering Pavements Were Originally Built For People Councils make historic breakthrough: the grey bit beside the road was never meant as bicycle Airbnb LONDON — Britain’s capital has made its most important transport discovery since somebody realised buses work better when they actually stop near passengers. Councils across the city have now seized 3,393 hazardously parked or abandoned rental e-bikes so far in 2026, a rise…

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AI Gathering at Dumfries House in Scotland

Alan Nafzger

King Charles Hosts AI Summit at Dumfries House, Orders Humanity Saved Before the Scones Go Cold Nvidia, DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic gather at a Scottish country estate to ensure machines remain under human control, alarming everyone familiar with humans CUMNOCK, SCOTLAND — The King Charles AI summit is officially under way: King Charles III is hosting leaders from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic at Dumfries House in Ayrshire to discuss…

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Harry Is Officially a ‘Private Citizen’

Judi Online

Harry Is Officially a ‘Private Citizen,’ Says Everyone But Harry Buckingham Palace’s New ‘Private Citizen’ Label Reached Whitehall Before It Reached Harry LONDON — Prince Harry has run into one of the great mysteries of British public administration. He is, apparently, a private citizen, and his private status is important enough that the King had to explain it to senior figures across the entire British establishment. Buckingham Palace recently reiterated that…

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London Housing Crisis

Alan Nafzger

London Housing Crisis: Where Threesomes Go To Die Married Couple Learns Three Adults And One London Bed Do Not Divide Evenly LONDON — A married London couple hoping to add a little adventure to their marriage have discovered that adding a third person to a relationship is far easier than adding a third person to a London flat. The idea began, as these things do, with a magazine advice column about…

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Prime Minister Asks CEOs to Generate Economic Growth

Alan Nafzger

Prime Minister Asks CEOs to Generate Economic Growth, CEOs Suggest Revolutionary Policy of Leaving Them Alone Andy Burnham gathers Britain’s biggest companies at Downing Street to talk economic growth, moments after the government finishes standing on it Prime Minister Andy Burnham is bringing major business leaders, entrepreneurs and regional mayors into Downing Street to discuss economic growth, investment and his ambition to reindustrialise Britain. Burnham says government should stand behind people…