“Nicola’s only crime was to love too much. And to not notice the Jaguar on...
Stop it, John Crace! I officially only read the Guardian to mock it. It’s confusing when I read a piece from the Guardian’s political sketch-writer mocking Nicola Sturgeon and find myself laughing out...
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Government-funded comedy
“Comedians tell ministers lack of funding is no laughing matter”, says the BBC headline writer. Do not judge him too harshly; hanging would suffice. The article continues, Comedian Tom Walker, who...
View ArticleI had to get this off my chest
Ill fares the land. Ominous tidings abound, such as MPs giving ministers powers to restrict the entire internet, World War III breaking out, and Winston Churchill being replaced by a badger. But who...
View ArticleShocking revelation…
BREAKING: Greta Thunberg reveals horrible torture at the hands of Israeli captors. “They harvested every single one of my organs” she now says. “Then they forced me to work in a plutonium mine and we...
View ArticleEverything is Just Fine – an advert apparently banned in the UK.
News comes to me that an advert, a video in the style of a musical, for something called Coinbase, which I understand is some form of crypto set up, which is why the advert has been banned, and about...
View ArticleThe fun is just getting started
George Monbiot writes in – I kid you not – the Guardian: How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits,...
View Article“They’re taking all our qualifications”: an AI video, possibly a parody,...
An hour ago the Twitter account “NHS Nurses”, @SocialistNHS, posted a video to Twitter that shows a fat White British man with a can of Stella in his hand and a Union Jack painted on his belly...
View ArticleFairytale of Birmingham
In the comments to my previous post, Zerren Yeoville was inspired by the Pogues’ 1987 classic Fairytale of New York to pen the following lines for Birmingham in its current travails: ‘They’ve got rats...
View ArticlePuerto Rico’s garbage
In case you’re wondering, the apostrophe in the title is not a contraction for “is”. It marks the possessive and refers to the large amount of garbage in Puerto Rico. Apparently Puerto Rico’s landfill...
View Article“03.26 BST: Trump makes another transphobic joke”
I have heard that Trump was quite entertaining at the Al Smith Memorial dinner, but this riposte from the Guardian’s Helen Sullivan displays true comic genius. Her effortless mastery of the role of the...
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The cat election
A theme appears to be building in this splendid US Presidential election. JD Vance, the running mate for Mr Trump, has been beaten up for talking about “childless cat ladies”; Taylor Swift, the singer,...
View ArticleMaybe Modern Monetary Theory is true after all…
I have seen the light. The man who convinced me of the truth of MMT was someone called Daron Medway, who replied to a tweet by Richard Murphy that said, The government can never run out of money...
View ArticleIsabella’s underwear and Kamala’s Christmas
“Flashback: Harris fumed at Americans for saying ‘Merry Christmas’ before illegal migrants got protections”, Fox News reports: Then-Sen. Kamala Harris warned Americans not to say “Merry Christmas”...
View ArticleThe V-P addresses the nation
We rarely comment on current affairs here, but the V-P has made an address to the Nation. So we are in for a hot summer.
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – Jerry Seinfeld college address edition
“If I messed up a funny story around my relatives, they would go ‘That’s not how you tell that joke. The prostitute has to be behind the drapes when the wife comes in.’ You went to Duke—that is an...
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Samizdata quote of the day – sage geopolitical wisdom edition
Why we can’t leave the Houthi’s to shoot at us in peace is completely beyond me. – the indispensable Zarah Bukake MP echoing nice Mr. Corbyn.
View ArticleI wish this Quote of the Day were less appropriate to the year just gone
“I stayed up last night… Not so much to welcome the new year, but to make sure the old one leaves…” – Ben David, in the comments to the previous post. Still, hope springs eternal in the human breast....
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