Bedroom Tax – ministers agree exemption if spare room used to flog shit coffee on the high street
(satire – sort of) Coalition government ministers have agreed to back down on plans to introduce a bedroom tax in …
Monthly Archives: January 2013
It’s not the Left that believes in Magic Money Trees. It’s the Right.
(it’s not satire – it’s the surreal world of banking) Very often some people on the Right who are less …
Daily Mail uses an actress for another story to demonise the working class
(it’s not satire – it’s the Daily Mail!) Yesterday, the Daily Mail published yet another of its endless dubious stories …
Government ministers announce plan to deter immigrants to UK by making it shit
(satire – possibly) The coalition government has revealed detailed plans to curb immigration into the UK by making the country …
See sample of new negative ads about UK for Romania and Bulgaria
A sample of an advertisement from the new negative advertising campaign in Bulgaria and Romania the government is thinking of running to persuade potential immigrants to …
Oops! Daily Mail gets British immigration test wrong
(not satire – it’s the Daily Mail!) The Mail got a really easy question wrong in a sample of the …
Media Baron Rupert Murdoch in Talks to Buy Popular UK Tabloid Boris Johnson
(satire – sort of) Eighty-one year old Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch is reported to be attending talks in the …
Tory Health Minister Anna Soubry suggests lack of money could be cause of poverty
(satire – possibly) Public Health Minister Anna Soubry has announced she has discovered a surprising link between people being poor …
Ian Hislop comes out on BBC Question Time
(not satire – it’s the UK today) As the leading political satirist of a country whose present government’s idea of …
Osborne blames too much ‘snow’ for his putting the UK at risk of a triple-dip recession
(satire) The chancellor George Osborne has blamed the large amounts of ‘snow’ and chilled champagne which blanketed his brain for …
Government to clamp down on disabled benefit cheats flooding country from tour in Afghanistan
(satire) The government has announced it is to close a loophole in which thousands of able-bodied young military personnel are abusing …
Philip Hensher whinges on (and bloody on) after being taken to task for writing harmful garbage
(not satire – it’s UK today) I’m getting sick of this. Yet another overpaid hack relentlessly moaning after getting strong …
ATOS to reduce ‘fit for work’ test to one question: “Are you alive?”
(satire – barely) Sources inside the Department of Work and Pensions have revealed the French-owned company ATOS – who undertake …
FSA – dangerous levels of unprocessed tripe and traces of chicken DNA found in Cameron speech
(satire – sort of) The Food Standards Agency is urgently investigating how excess amounts of artificial sweeteners – including significant …
Secret terrorist plot to wipe out 5,300 British soldiers uncovered
(satire – probably) A secret plot to wipe out up to 5,300 British troops by a brutal Al Qaeda cell …
How media hacks are desperately trying to keep up with social media – and failing
(not satire – it’s UK today) UPDATE: Willard Foxton and Hugh Muir have both now apologised for not sourcing their original …
Is the Sun’s ‘immigrant benefit scrounger’ actually the wife of a Russian billionaire?
(not satire – it’s the Sun!@?#!) You may have already read about the Sun’s front-page story yesterday about a so-called …
Prepare to stone me to death for saying this – but Charlie Brooker’s wrong about climate change deniers
I’m well aware that for anybody who regards him or herself as a progressive – criticising Charlie Brooker is rather …
Norway braced for slump as UK economists confirm snow main cause of recession
(satire – I think) Countries such as Norway, Sweden and Switzerland whose economies have been laden for years with mountains …
No link at all between police, paedophilia, plebs and politicians. Probably.
(not satire – it’s UK today) We all know the Tories and the police have fallen out. First of all, …
Cameron delays EU speech till 2018
(satire – possibly) David Cameron has scrapped plans to deliver a long-awaited speech on Britain’s future in the European Union because of …
Lib Dems pledge to paint Big Ben orange. Or red. Or blue. Or whatever.
(not satire – it’s the Lib Dems!) Unbelievably, the Liberal Democrats are said to be considering making another pledge to …
Shock as traces of meat discovered in supermarket burgers
(satire – probably) In a shocking admission, minute traces of animal meat have been detected in some beefburgers being sold …
Coalition government releases official list of strivers and skivers:
(not really satire – it’s UK today) The government have released an official list of who they regard as strivers …
Tory shock after Lib Dems carry out a pledge (to delay boundary review)
(might be satire – but I’m not all that sure any more) Conservative Party MPs were in shock tonight after …
Julie Burchill condemned for condemning condemning of condemnation
(satire – I think!) Observer columnist Julie Burchill has been condemned by former equalities minister Lynne Featherstone for condemning the condemning of …
Jimmy Savile, West Yorkshire Police and the Friday Morning Club
(not satire – it’s UK today) Some people still think the reason Jimmy Savile managed to abuse hundreds and hundreds …
Ken Clarke and Peter Mandelson join forces to fight Eurovision Song Contest sceptics
(satire – possibly) Tory grandee Ken Clarke is joining forces with Labour peer Lord Mandelson in a historic cross-party bid …
How Lord McAlpine is exploiting the same libel laws Savile used to cover up his crimes
(not satire – it’s UK today) Revealed – how Jimmy Savile used UK libel laws to cover his crimes There’s …
Savile wasn’t ‘hiding in plain sight’. It was a cover-up.
(not satire – unfortunately) The bizarre phrase that’s being used now to explain how Jimmy Savile got away with abusing …
