Renationalised rail firms to be as great as local councils

THREE rail operators which are to be renationalised next year will soon have the same fantastic quality and customer service as your local council.

Are you stupid enough to think you can clean the oven? A tragedy in five acts

HAVE you made the unwise decision to clean your own oven, based purely on it being unacceptably filthy? These are the stages of your unfolding regret.

Six British prime ministers who wish they had declared martial law

MARTIAL law was briefly declared in South Korea yesterday because the president was in trouble, arousing wistful longings in these prime ministers...

'Shall we double-barrel our names or stop being a pair of self-important pricks?' couple wonders
A PAIR of preening wankers are unsure whether they should make their inability to choose between surnames the world and their future children’s problem.
Best Shouty Blonde Moron: The TikTok Awards 2024 categories

THE first UK and Ireland TikTok Awards are here, and what a feast of quality they promise to be. These are the categories.

Pies stolen in Yorkshire, unsurprisingly

MORE than £25,000 worth of pies have, to the amazement of no-one, been stolen in a Yorkshire pie heist.

Gregg Wallace to win public back by asking them to punch him in the stomach as hard as they can

DISGRACED MasterChef presenter Gregg Wallace is to win Britain back by lifting his shirt, tensing his abs and demanding they punch him hard in the stomach.

Live Aid, and other legendary gigs it would have been bloody awful to attend

FIRST gigs, huge gigs, controversial gigs, gigs where you just had to be there, except if you were nobody would ever believe you that it sucked.

Photocopier planning to skip office Christmas party

A PHOTOCOPIER has decided not to attend this year’s office Christmas party because it finds it always a degrading experience, it has confirmed.

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Politics

'I, too, have a petition' says Liz Truss

FORMER prime minister Liz Truss has announced she has a petition of her own which she is sure the whole nation will want to sign.

Labour launches 'Put Your F**king Phone Down' plan to get young working

LABOUR have outlined their one-point plan to get young people in work which begins and ends with making them put their f**king phones down.

You simply love the democratic process: Keir Starmer's five reasons why you want another election

I AM barely five months into my job – and loving it – but oddly, there is a petition calling for a general election. I can only imagine it is for one of these reasons.

How the assisted dying slippery slope will allow you to request your neighbour's death by 2029

THE assisted dying bill coming to parliament this week is just the start of a slippery slope to death on demand for anyone you don’t like. Here’s how it will work.

Bags of mixed nuts sold as vegan advent calendars
VEGANS are being sold ordinary nut assortments with numbers written on as specialist vegan advent calendars, it has emerged.

Society

Five clearly bullshit excuses for a delayed train and what they really mean

TRAINS are so unreliable they have to come up with a host of stupid excuses to keep travellers docile. Here’s the truth behind their lies.

'Ye Olde Fighting Cocks' is cruel and ageist: Bad pub names according to PETA

PETA have claimed a pub called ‘The Sly Old Fox’ is offensive to foxes. Which is a great way to stop people taking you seriously and presumably means these names are unacceptable too…

Six ways to make sure every room you enter immediately knows you're working-class

ENTERED a room? Concerned not everyone in it know you were born with coal in the bath and hatred of Thatcher in your heart? Let them know.

Man at school reunion can't believe how much everyone but him has aged

A MAN attending a reunion of his school class is shocked to see how badly all his former classmates have aged in the last 25 years.

'Also, taking a 100-year-old man to Barbados was a f**ked-up thing to do'

THE Charity Commission admitted it is outside the scope of its enquiry, but that flying a centenarian long-haul while Covid was rampant was ‘some f**king bullshit.’

Captain Tom's daughter sets up charity to help victims of Captain Tom Foundation

HANNAH Ingram-Moore has set up a charity to help innocent victims of buying Captain Tom cash-grab books filled with mawkish life lessons.

Lifestyle

Londoner exiled for taking driving lessons

A RESIDENT of London has been stripped of her status by presuming to learn to drive a car by which she might visit other places.

Mullet official non-binary haircut

GEN Z has confirmed the mullet is the official hairstyle of anyone who wishes to announce they stand outside of the gender binary.

Should you try being a fake military veteran? The pros and cons

A MAN has been exposed after posing as a veteran on Remembrance Sunday. But faking a military career is so popular you can’t help wondering if you should try it yourself. Let’s look at the pros and cons.

Teen worried that ear piercing makes him look a bit straight

A TEENAGER is anxious that his ear piercing gives the impression he is attracted to the opposite sex.

Dark evenings provide perfect opportunity to judge other people's living rooms

THE greatest benefit of darker nights is the chance to see into the crappy front rooms of other people and judge them.

Riding the whole Central Line: the ten most dogshit things to do in London

PLANNING a trip to the big smoke? Want that authentically wretched London experience the residents keep for themselves? Try these ten must-miss activities.

How to sneak in a shag in a house full of relatives, by the Mash sex columnist
CHRISTMAS approaches like a male orgasm – for all the fuss, essentially always the same and closely followed by depression.

Sport

That's the club I know and love, say 90s Man City fans

ALIENATED 1990s Manchester City fans admitted seeing their club blow a 3-0 lead against Feyenoord last night was like coming home.

Ten iconic Premier League managers ranked by what bastards they'd be as father-in-laws

THE storied history of the Premier League is rich with legendary managers, and Christian Gross. But which would you least look forward to seeing every other Christmas?

Gary Lineker's reign of terror to end

LIBERAL despot Gary Lineker, who has cruelly ruled Britain from his throne of football lies for decades, has announced he is to step down.

'Germans and English the same anyway' says Tuchel

THOMAS Tuchel has explained his being German and managing England is not an issue because the two nations are essentially identical.

'We're called MILFs,' angry middle-class women of a certain age tell Wallace
SEETHING middle-class women of a certain age have told Gregg Wallace that the phrase he was looking for is ‘MILFs’.

Science & Technology

They only go as fast as a milk float: Seven things gammons firmly believe about EVs

CONSUMERS are rejecting electric cars for a variety of reasons, but it’s great news for right-wing blokes who’ve always hated these effeminate vehicles. Here Roy Hobbs explains why you shouldn’t buy one.

Five fair, reasonable punishments for people who use their phones in the cinema

NO reprisal is too extreme for the subhuman scum who use their bright phones in dark cinemas. Even these punishments are entirely reasonable.

'Thank you for being you' means he's ejaculated: your Reply Guy's messages, decrypted

YOUR online Reply Guy, faithfully leaving a comment under every Instagram post, is always there for you. But what do his messages really mean?

Internet definitely to blame for this but nobody sure quite how

THE re-election of Trump is definitely the internet’s fault in a way that has yet to be specified, everyone has agreed.

Loving text from dad obviously a scam

A WARM, loving message from a father is clearly a scam designed to trick his son out of money.

Man referring to woman who ghosted him after two dates as 'ex'
A MAN whose date cut all contact after their second meeting is unashamedly referring to her as his ex-girlfriend.

Arts & Entertainment

Seven eye-catching hairstyles that also released music

THERE are hairstyles that are not only eye-catching and memorable, but were also behind hit songs. These dos lit up the charts.

Dune: Prophecy, and six other prequels that prove all prequels are shite

DUNE: Prophecy is the latest prequel to an interesting story which proves all prequels to be leaden and unnecessary. These are why the genre should die:

Nine new films that aren't as good as watching The Matrix again

HOLLYWOOD has stubbornly continued to make films even though it peaked 25 years ago. None of these recent releases can compare to a rewatch of a 1999 cyberpunk classic.

Man enjoying gig still wants it to be over

A MAN who is thoroughly enjoying the gig he is currently attending still, deep down inside, cannot wait for it to be over.

Bananarama are old now: How to explain Band Aid without weeping

DO They Know It’s Christmas? is being rereleased with modern artists like Harry Styles added in. It could be a traumatic trip down Memory Lane if you’re middle-aged, so brace yourself for the following…  

Thief Takers, Bonekickers, Grafters: Stupid names for jobs that TV thought were cool

CALLING a show ‘Police Officers’ would be dull. So TV works hard to find alternative, cooler titles for pumping out the same old crap and ends up here.

'Why isn't there a Die Hard musical?' ask men
MEN sick of films like Legally Blonde and The Devil Wears Prada being turned into West End musicals are demanding musicals of their films, like Die Hard or Taken. 

Business

Man driving 2008 Fiat Punto not buying Jaguar because it’s 'gone woke'

A MAN working night shifts as a security guard and driving a 16-year-old Fiat Punto has abandoned plans to buy a Jaguar F-Type because the brand is now woke.

Did you invest in crypto because an influencer told you to, you total bellend?

DID you put thousands of pounds into cryptocurrencies you had never previously heard of because a man on YouTube told you to, you absolute knobhead?

Tories who hate government and love business asked why they don't do business then

CONSERVATIVE politicians who disdain government and adore business have been advised they could, instead of running for government, run a business.

How you've ended up subsidising water companies to pass profits to their twat shareholders: a user's guide

WATER bills are to rise, because otherwise businesses failing by every metric would be unable to reward their shareholders. Here’s how that happened.

Riding Rudolph: six sexy new Christmas films on Netflix
NETFLIX, tirelessly searching for a new lowest common denominator, has made a film called Hot Frosty about a snowman who f**ks. The plots of these as confusing as their target demographics:

Work

Not sitting next to the boss: Office Christmas party options you wish were on offer

THE time has come to select your flavour of forced festivity with workmates. But you’re offered bone-dry turkey or pan-roasted hake when these are the options you want.

Homeworker only in office for the biscuits

A HOMEWORKER has begun to come into the office every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday purely for its selection of biscuits, colleagues believe.

Pretend you've never heard of Microsoft Word: how to get out of work tasks, fast

ASKED to do something at work, which is really unfair considering the weekend you’ve had? Determined to lower expectations? Try these simple techniques.

Man takes massive pay cut for dream job that's still better paid than yours

A MAN has willingly slashed his income in order to pursue his dream job which still boasts a far better salary than yours, it has emerged.  

Colleague massively overestimating emotional impact of her leaving

A WOMAN is under the mistaken impression that her leaving for another job is an important emotional event for those around her.

Next episode of Inside The Factory to look at the BBC's disciplinary process
AN upcoming episode of Inside The Factory will explore how the BBC handles the misconduct of a high-profile presenter – from the inside.

Alcohol

Cartoons of foxes in waistcoats, and other features of truly characterless gastropubs

SOULLESS pubs feigning a long rustic history always pull the same interior design crap based around the same few bollocks items.

Connoisseurs of super-strength lager disappointed by Budget

APPRECIATORS of super-strength lager's complex flavours feel they have been ignored in Rachel Reeves’ budget. 

Mate refuses to buy round unless it's in Wetherspoons

A MAN is not tight or anything, he just thinks it is daft to spend a fiver on a pint.

Craft beer 'not being made by authentic wankers'

MORE than 60 per cent of craft beer is brewed by big bastard corporations rather than independent bearded wankers, research has found.

Your astrological week ahead for November 30th, with Psychic Bob
‘All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth,’ as Liam Gallagher sang in 2002 after that fateful Munich hotel brawl.