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I'll be there, just like the song!

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Don McGowan 3 Questions

I wanted to say thank you for approaching me with your proposal to look into my writing. The profiling achieved & the resulting breakdown, was astounding, to say the least.
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Dear Annabel Denham: A Petrol Pump Is Not A Doctorate In Ordinary People On the mystical powers of unleaded and other Fleet Street hallucinations.

And Annabel, with all the solemn awe of a court stenographer at the Church of Nigel, looked at this travelling roadshow and wrote as though she had glimpsed a statesman communing with the nation.

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Today’s Papers #181: Britain, Now Governed By A Two-Page Vetting Memo And A Free Bet Warnings up top, oil in the middle, hats in the trim, and the whole country wobbling about like a racecourse gazebo in a crosswind.

Good morning to the lovely people of Britain, and the even luckier people abroad, watching this country absorb serious questions about judgment, security vetting, global oil shocks.
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Satirical Planet News: Weather Thursday 12 March 2026 Live from the Forecast Bunker, Where the Wind Is Violent and the Infrastructure Is Mostly Theoretical

Disclaimer: This is a satirical weather bulletin. Any resemblance between today’s collapsing weather front and Britain’s collapsing public realm is entirely deliberate.
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The slow movement of clouds.

Thanks Nicola.

Afternoon Lorna.

Ah yes, evolution’s bold design choice, pack the planet with gullible megaphones and opportunistic fucking liars, then leave the compassionate, semi-competent minority to run tech support for civilisation. Population 8 billion. Functional adults, about twelve. Willy & Bill would like a word.

Thank you.

Trump: The Defence Contractor with a Pro Shop How a Florida golf company, Trump-linked investors and a drone merger ended up in the same public filing.

The cleanest way to understand the latest Trump-family business spectacle is not to squint at it like a dispatch from the future, but to read what is already sitting there in public filings like a half-finished magic trick.
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Trump: The Defence Contractor with a Pro Shop How a Florida golf company, Trump-linked investors and a drone merger ended up in the same public filing.

The cleanest way to understand the latest Trump-family business spectacle is not to squint at it like a dispatch from the future, but to read what is already sitting there in public.
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#satire #politics #news #war #tech #drones #media #power #money #Trump

Reform UK: The Transatlantic Strategy to Curtail UK Abortion Rights A Satirical Planet Forensic File on the Farage–ADF Alliance

It is not often you can trace a British politician’s moral panic back to a Washington spreadsheet, but here we are. Nigel Farage’s sudden obsession with limiting abortion access did not fall from the heavens of personal conviction.
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Body Politics: How White Fear Has Fueled the Anti-Abortion Movement | Our Bodies Ourselves This article traces how nativism, eugenics, and white supremacy have historically helped drive the anti-abortion movement.

This rhetoric is also linked to roll backs of reproductive rights

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Thanks Gill.

Before he became the prophet of petrol, Honest Bob was already the patron saint of developers. As Housing Secretary in 2020 he personally waved through the £1 billion Westferry Printworks project for tycoon Richard Desmond, days after they shared a Tory fundraiser table and swapped friendly texts.

Dear Adrian Warwick: Stop Pretending the Ladder Climbed Itself George Finch runs the show. The Conservatives decide whether the stage stays up.

On 17 March, Finch faces a no-confidence motion. Reform has 19 councillors. The Liberal Democrats have 14, the Greens six and Labour three, and the Liberal Democrats have already said they will support the motion.
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Before he became the prophet of petrol, Honest Bob was already the patron saint of developers. As Housing Secretary in 2020 he personally waved through the £1 billion Westferry Printworks project for tycoon Richard Desmond, days after they shared a Tory fundraiser table and swapped friendly texts.

Before he became the prophet of petrol, Honest Bob was already the patron saint of developers. As Housing Secretary in 2020 he personally waved through the £1 billion Westferry Printworks project for tycoon Richard Desmond, days after they shared a Tory fundraiser table & swapped friendly texts.

Storytime. . .featuring the leader of Durham Council YouTube video by The Accidental Disruptor

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You can respond with facts.
You can respond with dignity.
You can respond with the sort of calm authority that reassures the public you are, in fact, capable of running a local authority without needing a lie down and a juice box.

Andrew Husband chose a different route. 😉

Andrea Jenkyns’ May 2025 Greater Lincolnshire mayoral election ran about £655,000 over its £1.65 million budget, a fine way to launch a new era by torching the calculator. Then in September the authority asked Government to cover the overspend while proposing another £147,000 for the mayoral office.

Andrea Jenkyns’ May 2025 Greater Lincolnshire mayoral election ran about £655,000 over its £1.65 million budget, a fine way to launch a new era by torching the calculator. Then in September the authority asked Government to cover the overspend while proposing another £147,000 for the mayoral office.

Today’s Papers #180: Britain, Now Operating As A Slot Machine With Missiles War up top, panic in the middle, horses in the trim, and tiny print doing the work of a constitution.

If Britain ever publishes a Bill of Rights, page three will offer odds. Right then. Let’s see which paper is trying to sell your adrenal gland back to you this morning.

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Satirical Planet News Weather: Wednesday, 11 March 2026 Sunshine for the brochure, wind warnings for everyone else.

This is a satirical weather bulletin. Any resemblance between today’s atmosphere and the operating style of modern Britain is not our fault.
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SPN: Thanks, BlueSky. Thanks, Substack. The internet, briefly used for its intended purpose.

A massive thank you to everyone who shared yesterday’s piece and helped give it a proper boot up the algorithm’s backside.
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Morning Mark, thanks for the help yesterday.

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We write a lot about Reform and Farage. All fact checked satire.
Thanks for you help.