Boyfriend preoccupied with TV excellent at listening

A MAN engrossed in a TV programme has proved to be an effective listener who does not patronise his girlfriend by offering unhelpful advice.

A typical food shop, if it was from the As Ever range by the Duchess of Sussex

MEGHAN has relaunched her shopping site, with new products and even more twee bullshit. Here she explains how she’d make your supermarket staples more poncey.

Man begins pre-drinks for Oasis gig

MINDFUL that there are only 55 hours to go before the first gig of the Oasis reunion, a man has started on pre-drinks this afternoon.

Shit town has hop-on, hop-off tour bus
THE objectively awful town of Skegness runs a hop-on, hop-off open-top bus service so people can tour its grim sights at their leisure.
Labour MP kind of feels like he was voted into office to look after vulnerable?

A LABOUR rebel has admitted that he voted against the welfare bill because he always felt the party had more of a 'caring for the disabled' vibe.

The six best legal loopholes for a speeding fine you've made up yourself that won't work

BEEN slapped with a speeding fine? Convinced this is one of those laws that doesn't really count? Wriggle out of paying it with these clever excuses that will convince nobody.

How to survive Euro 2025 when you're bored with the Lionesses now: a guide for women

EURO 2025 kicks off today, but what if you're a woman who was briefly into football but now isn't really? Here's how to survive weeks of dutiful support.

Every school play hinges on either UV light, strobe light or smoke machine

EVERY play performed by a school revolves around the single piece of stage technology that school possesses, it has emerged.

The art of the U-turn, by Sir Keir Starmer

POLITICS is like any relationship – it’s about compromise. And a Machiavellian brain like mine can compromise any enemy into submission by abandoning his beliefs at every turn.

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Politics

The last days of Starmer vs the last days of Hitler: Which is better?

POLITICAL commentators have begun to talk seriously about Keir Starmer being forced out. And there’s another leader who had a difficult, protracted downfall: Hitler. So how do they compare?

Trump to swear through rest of f**king presidency

PRESIDENT f**king Trump is to call an asshole a motherf**king asshole through his remaining years in the bastard White House, he has confirmed.

Middle East fixed, proclaims Trump

PRESIDENT Trump has announced that after a single intervention by the greatest leader the world has ever known, the Middle East is now fixed.

What I'm hoping to get from the statutory inquiry into grooming gangs, by a wildly unrealistic right-wing man

FINALLY Starmer has bowed to public pressure and set up a national inquiry into grooming gangs. And from there, believes Martin Bishop, these actions are inevitable.

The cost of Rachel Reeves's spending spree based on how much you hate her

THE chancellor yesterday outlined a government spending spree of either £113bn, £300bn, or £4 trillion, depending on the strength of your loathing for her. Which are you?

Rest of country demands unbearable London heat be livestreamed
THE rest of the UK has requested that today’s 33ºC heat in London be viewable on a livestream for their entertainment and pleasure.

Society

Dad ready to unleash summer of lawnsplaining hell

THE arrival of summer has primed a father to condescendingly share his exhaustive lawn care knowledge with his ignorant family.

Writing 'Gareth is a bender' in the toilets: the terrorist acts you committed as a child, according to Labour

VANDALISM is now terrorism, according to the government’s rulings on Palestine Action, and you’re guilty. These are the atrocities you committed aged 12.

I can die without any nanny state assistance, thank you

THE nanny state’s latest idea? That its citizens are so helpless they need assistance even to die. Well, I can die perfectly well on my own, thank you very much.

Britain asked to believe its police are fervent anti-racists

THE British public has been invited to believe its police forces are so passionately opposed to racism in any form they willingly cover up crimes.

Dads struggling with return to normal life

DADS are struggling with normal life after 24 hours of unbridled Father's Day self-indulgence.

One evening on dating app worth six months of couples' counselling
AN evening of interaction with the online dating market saves more marriages than half a year being excruciatingly honest with a relationship counsellor, it has emerged.

Lifestyle

First in at Glastonbury enjoying some pretty sweet bogs

THE first arrivals at Glastonbury are shitting with barely a tremor of revulsion, they have gleefully confirmed.

Lake District unveils new slogan 'The Lake District: never f**king worth it'

THE Lake District has unveiled a new advertising campaign reminding the public that travelling there is always to be regretted and never, ever pays off.

Friend who doesn't follow the news might be onto something

YOUR friend who you have previously mocked for their lack of interest in current affairs may have had the right idea the entire time, you have admitted.

Don't step on a faerie: A practical guide to the worst Summer Solstice hippy bollocks

IT’S the Summer Solstice tomorrow, and celebrations will include every type of mystical bollocks from the Mother Goddess to fae folk. Here’s how to take a more practical, grounded approach.

'What the ever-living f**k are you washing your clothes in?' Vinted sellers asked

AFTER receiving clothes that smell like a nuclear warhead went off in a detergent factory, Vinted buyers are wondering what their purchases are cleaned in.

School leavers enter the real world with two-month long holiday

TEENAGERS leaving secondary school have been plunged into the harsh reality of ten weeks off pissing about with their mates.

Is Wimbledon the BBC's next hotbed of anti-Semitic chanting?
GLASTONBURY was a cesspit of anti-Semitism gleefully encouraged by the BBC, except everywhere that wasn’t the West Holts stage between 2.30pm and 3.30pm, Saturday. Is Wimbledon next?

Sport

Shit: football bouncing across park right towards you

AN URGENT report has confirmed that a football is bouncing across the park directly towards you and you are expected to return it.

Any true football fan understands Trent Alexander-Arnold has made us look like dicks

BOOING our own player? Who’s just won the league? Of course we did. And anyone who criticises that doesn’t understand he’s made all Liverpool fans look right dicks.

Yes, Liverpool were once as unbearable as Manchester City, man tells grandchildren

A 63-YEAR-OLD man has explained to his grandchildren that once, Liverpool were just as successful and twatty about it as Manchester City are today.

Marathon runners hit actual wall

COMPETITORS in the London Marathon are running into an actual, physical wall and attempting to grittily push through it.

Science & Technology

Funny ties, and other Father's Day gifts now made sadly obsolete

TOKEN gifts for fathers were so easy in times gone by, when a Simpsons tie did the job perfunctorily enough for no messy emotions to be bared on either side. These were adequate.

Musk asking Grok how to unf**k his life

ELON Musk has turned to his AI chatbot for advice on how to reverse his fortunes, it has emerged.

How to make a kitten on a pizza: Seven pointless things you learned from AI training

SEVEN-and-a-half million Britons will be trained in AI by 2030. Your workplace AI course leads you to question the value of this, because here’s what you learned.

Six technologies that have ruined being a dickhead teenager

GROWING up pre-internet provided a wealth of opportunities to aggravate your family and community that technology has snatched away.

How to be that dick in the park annoying everyone with his Temu drone

WE have all seen him, admired him and wondered what it takes to become him: the tit buzzing his budget drone around a public park. Follow these rules.

This week in Mash History: 'Catherine Howard looketh hot as f**k washing that carriage,' says King, 1540
HOT weather makes Britons behave unusually, and so it was when 17-year-old Catherine Howard stripped out of her lady-in-waiting outfit to wash a gun carriage.

Arts & Entertainment

Dr Dre, and six other musical doctors who in a medical emergency should sit the f**k down

BOGUS doctors are surprisingly common in the music industry. Here are some who may not even have completed the basic seven years of medical training.

28 Years Later follows zombies at awkward reunion event

NEW film 28 Years Later follows the zombies from the original 2001 film meeting for the first time in almost three decades to discuss how they are all getting on.

Eight acts headlining your crappy little local music festival

YOU live in a small town of no real note and yet someone has decided you deserve your own music festival. These are the only headliners you can get.

Five way more sexual album covers than Sabrina Carpenter's: A guide for prudes

CLUTCHING your pearls at Sabrina Carpenter’s new album cover? Grow up and look at some proper smut with these alternatives.

New Pulp album largely about erectile dysfunction

AN acclaimed new album by Pulp focuses on the age-appropriate subject of erectile dysfunction for nine of its 11 tracks.

Five things you can't reasonably be expected to do in this heat
TODAY is set to be one of the hottest June days on record. Consequently nobody can realistically task you with any of these...

Business

'Proposing to my girlfriend after a romantic dinner of Bombay Bad Boy': Readers share their treasured Poundland memories

POUNDLAND is closing 68 stores, leaving many Britons bereft without their beloved cheap shit retailer. They share their moving stories of how Poundland touched their lives.

Couple start business together because they're in love

A COUPLE who believe that anything is achievable when you’re in deeply in love are proving it by starting a business.

BBC, Glastonbury, and Starmer all must go after anti-IDF chant
THE British Broadcasting Corporation, Glastonbury Festival and Keir Starmer’s government must all be permanently dissolved because of what a punk band said.

Work

Charm of child on Zoom call rapidly dissipating

THE novelty of a toddler interrupting a professional Zoom call is waning fast, all participants confirmed.

How to get someone to f**k off away from your desk and let you work

THE key office skillset is not implementing core competencies or working the printer. It’s persuading twats to piss off back to their twat desks with twat bobbleheads on.

'Yeah, it'll be chill' says teenager about to work three 16-hour shifts at festival

A TEENAGER bragging that he is basically being paid to check out some cool bands is about to enter his own personal hell.

'Cool' teacher actually fully grown adult seeking approval of 15-year-olds

A TEACHER recognised by his pupils as ‘cool’ is actually a 28-year-old man desperate to be popular with children, it has emerged.

Man suddenly realises he could wank again

A MAN has brightened after realising that, despite his having masturbated already today, a second go is a distinct possibility.

Knowing basics of astrology getting man so much minge
A MAN who has bothered to learn the basics about astrology could get laid every night of the week, he has confessed.

Alcohol

Banning alcohol adverts to instantly stop UK getting pissed

A BAN on alcohol adverts is guaranteed to make the British public immediately stop drinking permanently, it is believed.

Samuel Smith's pubs far f**king freakier than Wetherspoons, UK agrees

BRITISH drinkers have agreed both Samuel Smith and Wetherspoons pubs are freakshows with an alcohol license but the former has the edge.

Man finds out on Monday what he did at drinks on Friday

A MAN has arrived at his office prompt and early on Monday morning to be informed of what took place late and intoxicated on Friday evening.

A warm community of regulars: British pub cliches that have never been true

JEREMY Clarkson’s new ‘100 per cent British’ pub has dared play American music, but the British love of the pub has always been based on myths.

Man so f**ked he can't remember anything about festival 'had amazing time'

A MAN who does not have a single coherent memory of a music festival he spent the weekend at firmly believes he had the time of his life.

Puking in the gutter like the Queen did: How two extra drinking hours will honour our VE Day heroes

KEIR Starmer is allowing pubs to stay open two hours later tonight to celebrate VE Day. Here’s how to show your respect for those who experienced the war by drinking more.

Kneecap to sue bastards who nicked their thing
KNEECAP have announced they are taking legal action against punk band Bob Vylan for stealing anti-Israel publicity that was rightfully theirs.