The search for something more genuine than the obvious tourist spots reliably concludes at another […]
A Rivalry Fought Entirely in Aisle Layout: Sainsbury’s Local vs Tesco Express and the Satire of Retail Tribalism
Two nearly identical convenience formats have somehow become genuine markers of neighbourhood identity and personal […]
A Format Built From an Empty Chair: Have I Got News For You and the Satire of the Genre That Outlasted Its Own Crisis
A single missing host produced one of British television’s most enduring comedy formats, almost by […]
A Genre as Old as the Institution Itself: UK Marriage Jokes and the Satire of Affectionate Complaint
Comedy about marriage has survived every social change the institution itself has undergone, which says […]
The Diagnosis That Serves the Diagnostician: Broken Britain and the Satire of Strategic Alarm
Declaring the patient critically ill positions the doctor offering the cure rather nicely, regardless of […]
The Funniest British Politicians Ever, and Why None of Them Meant to Be
How Boris Johnson’s live-action sitcom career and Jacob Rees-Mogg’s time-machine presentation prove that accidental comedy […]
Feedback Successfully Received: Germany’s CDU Defeat and the Satire of the Ignored Customer Survey
An electorate delivers its harshest verdict in decades, and the response reads like a corporate […]
Piers Morgan, Earl Spencer, and the Diana Memoir: Mediation, Memory, and the Satire of the Intermediary
A broadcaster, an aristocrat and a ghost form a triangle in which the one person […]
Satire vs Parody: What’s the Difference, and Why It Actually Matters
The quickest test for telling satire from parody, why The Day Today is both at […]
INSIGHT: Diary of a Punk Who Tried to Avoid the Sydney Sweeney Story and Failed Completely
Even a gig full of feedback and broken amps could not drown out one advert […]
Diary of a Punk Rocker on the Week Royalty Discovered Twenty Side Hustles
London satire this week has one topic, ex royals and their business plan Diary of […]
Diary of a Punk Rocker Who Cannot Believe a Betting App Is the Main Story
London satire this week has one topic and one topic only Diary of a London […]
Three Chords and a Council Notice
A punk diary on London satire, gig venues and the news that will not stop […]
Punk Diary: Royals, Rockstars, and a Tudor King Who Won’t Shut Up
Siobhan O’Donnell on gigs, gossip, and the strangest news week London’s had in a while […]
Prat Colloquial Meaning: How the Word Is Actually Used in Everyday British Speech
The colloquial meaning of prat in conversation, at work, in the pub and on television, […]
Busking Outside the Station Taught Me More About This City Than Any Gig Has
Spent Saturday busking outside the station with an acoustic version of songs that are usually […]
We Finally Recorded the Demo, in a Kitchen, at 2am, Obviously
After roughly eleven months of saying we’d “properly” record something in an actual studio once […]
Rehearsal Room Flooded Again, Somehow Still the Best Night of the Week
The rehearsal room under the arches flooded again last night, which now officially makes it […]
Supporting a Band I’ve Never Heard Of and Loving Every Minute
Took the last-minute support slot at a gig in Deptford last night for a band […]
My Landlord Called It a ‘Modernisation.’ I Called It Losing My Practice Space.
Got the letter Tuesday. Landlord’s “modernising” the building, which is the word they use now […]
Dear Diary, I Tried To Explain Satire To My Nan And It Did Not Go Well
Some things are simply not meant to translate across a Sunday roast Dear diary, Sunday […]
Dear Diary, We Played A Terrible Gig And I Have Never Been Prouder
A half empty pub, a broken amp, and one genuinely great heckle Dear diary, tonight’s […]
Dear Diary, I Spent The Whole Tube Ride Composing Arguments I Will Never Actually Use
A perfectly ordinary commute becomes an entire imaginary debate championship Dear diary, I had one […]
Dear Diary, I Read The News This Morning And My Coffee Went Cold Out Of Spite
Siobhan tries to have a normal Tuesday and the headlines will not let her Dear […]
Dear Diary, The Band Argued About Politics Again And Nobody Won, As Usual
A rehearsal turns into a debate, a debate turns into chips, chips solve nothing but […]
Mock the Week: The Panel Show That Ate Itself
How a topical comedy panel show became a genre unto itself before eventually running out […]
Why Americans Can’t Pronounce Prat (And Shouldn’t Try)
A brief, affectionate examination of what happens when American English attempts a very British word […]
Weird News of the Week: The Curator’s Selection, Not the Full List
Refuse the dump. Keep the slips that have documents
I Tried to Have a Quiet Morning and the Feed Had Other Plans
Somewhere between the kettle boiling and my second scroll, my entire worldview got reorganised by […]
I Read Henry Is Back on the Night Bus and Nearly Missed My Stop
A punk rocker’s honest take on a dead king’s comeback tour Right, so I was […]