Private Eye

Not everyone’s cup of tea. Actually becoming aware of the amount of corruption and injustice in the UK can be accutely depressing.

Their online offering is a tiny fraction of what is covered in the hardcopy.

Yhe lack of traffic in London was amazing

Thank Christ we finally get away from the endless skinny jeans -> baggy jeans cycle.

Extra points for not lifting the spagetti pile when you’re hovering.

Ah this is the London Hackney Cab flourish. It’s kind of like yelling ‘Yeehaw’ as the bull leaps into the air and somehow you are still attached.

These days, you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you’re English.

Ed Balls

That’s such a Kissinger frame of mind.

Order with injustice over justice with chaos (sic).

He doesn’t know he’s a priest!

Not to condone it but it was the zeitgeist. There were so many so much worse from that period across all forms of media. His mildly toxic edginess is at least not hidden away.

Last thing I want to do is turn up the volume on my jogging.

Is your friend Biffo the Bear? If so I’d like to complain about the quality of the l 1974 Beano annual.

I don’t actually think there’s a ministry of silly walks. While this piece probably didn’t start out as satire it effectively tickles the same bones.

Sure it’s fair to have differing opinions of where the best butter comes from but Ireland likely has the oldest.

Dating apps are bit like voting in Northern Ireland in the UK general election. Technically you’re taking part in choosing the next PM but in reality you’re just squinting hard at a small list of munters that’ll do nothing for you.

Nor that the information that they use against you be necessarily true given their accepted monopoly in ‘truth’.

What if they’re not actually short but have been squatting all this time!

Literal Roman DVD goddess.

Yeah that was part of the first red scare. McCarthyism was considered the second. All part of intrenching inequality by ensuring that the best paths to a healthier society are associated with authoritarianism.