Who will be the next six Manchester United managers?

THE next Manchester United manager is a caretaker, the one after that will last five games and his successor will be sacked by Christmas. Who will they all be?

Heroic UK troops ready to defend Ukraine once war's over

BRITAIN’S courageous fighting forces are eager to step in and defend Ukraine once the war is over and any threat of violence is gone.

Trump unpredictable, if you don't realise he only does easy stuff he can personally profit from

IT is impossible to predict Donald Trump’s actions except by working out what is easy to do that he will personally gain prestige or money from, according to political observers.

Women bewildered as two men end friendship without drama

WOMEN worldwide are struggling to comprehend how two men have amicably agreed to no longer be friends with no emotional fallout whatsoever.

Timothée and Kylie: A guide for blokes struggling to see what the problem is
MALE? Perplexed by persistent speculation as to why Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner, two young, attractive, vapid people are dating? Your questions answered.
I am a US soldier based in Greenland, and soon I'll be doing something really f**king stupid

NOT a bad posting, this Greenland one. Cold but you’re inside for most of it. However I do fear that any day now I’ll be ordered to do something really f**king dumb.

I went on Thomas Skinner's mental health walk and I'm lower than I've ever been in my life

BEGIN 2026 with a delightful stroll to and from a pub with the absolute guvnor and a solid group of lads? That’ll sort out my mental health. Bosh, trademark Thomas Skinner!

Manchester United fan fears this is beginning to reflect badly on him

A FAN of Manchester United is concerned that the club’s troubles are making him personally seem as if he is cursed to a lifetime of incompetence.

Massive brick phones are back, claim Gen Z

THE latest item of the recent past disinterred and fetishised by Gen Z bellends is the enormous brick telephone of the 1980s.

Snowman too friendly with kids, council estate mums decide

A GROUP of mums on a housing estate in a deprived area are aggressively questioning the motives of a snowman playing with kids.

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Politics

Woman with black, square head furious she's been outed in Epstein files

A WOMAN with a head shaped like a perfect black square is outraged to have her identity exposed by the release of the Epstein files.

We ask you: What should a merged Reform and Tory party be called?

RIGHT-WINGERS are calling for a merger between the Conservatives and Reform. But what could be the name of such an unholy union?

We don't remember making a sitcom called 'Hitler Was Right', says BBC

THE BBC has searched its archives but cannot find any trace of an offensive 1970s sitcom about how much better life would be if Hitler had won the war.

Can you tell the difference between Reform and The Island Of Reject Tories?

EVERYBODY loves Reform, while everybody hates prominent Conservatives who lost their seats at the last election. But are there similarities between the two?

Five fruitless ways to keep the spark alive after you've had a baby, with the Mash sex columnist
LOVEMAKING can be neglected when you’re attending to the needs of a screaming fountain of piss and drool who looks like your bald uncle Paul, but smaller.

Society

'Season's greetings, from Jim and Carol': Five ways to find out who the f**k Jim and Carol are

RECEIVED a hand-delivered Christmas card and wondering who the hell sent it? These methods to identify the culprits could set your minds to rest.

Tragic: Elderly man spent Christmas alone because he's a massive bellend

A PENSIONER has once again spent Christmas alone because he has alienated everyone in his life by being a bastard, it has emerged.

Pair of absolute dickheads have baby on Christmas Day

A COUPLE of top-tier tools have f**ked up royally by giving birth to a baby on Christmas Day, of all the f**king days.

'Our summer highlight was John getting a suspended sentence': A Christmas round robin from a rough family

DEAR all, where to begin? Another super busy year has flown by, and like all meaningful years it was defined primarily by interactions with the criminal justice system.

Jesus wants to have a quiet one for his birthday this year

OUR Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has told friends he is not really feeling his birthday this year and is probably just going to stay in.

Lifestyle

Five gifts from AI that show it doesn't know the real you

YOU thought AI understood you and knew your likes and dislikes. But your faith in your new digital best friend was shaken when it got you these gifts.

We ask you: what have you forgotten to get from the shops?

CHRISTMAS is almost upon us and you’ve got everything in except, hang on, you just need this one item and Tesco is open until 7pm. What is it?

Twelve obsessive Christmas details to get right or you've failed as a mother and a woman

ARE you a mum under pressure to organise a perfect Christmas? Good. Forget any of these, and you’ve ruined it for everyone, you heartless bitch.

We ask you: What's your family's oddest Christmas tradition?

CHRISTMAS is but days away, and around the country families are getting together to do dizzyingly weird shit they think is normal. What’s your bizarre tradition?

Woman in 30s freaked out as everyone else starts looking like their parents

A WOMAN in her 30s has been left traumatised after realising her friends are starting to look and sound like their parents she remembers from childhood. 

Be a lucky jammy f**ker: how to win a £1m lottery jackpot twice

WHILE you sit around eating Hob-Nobs, one hard-working Welsh couple have just won £1 million on the lottery for the second time. Here’s how you can be more like them.

Six bands who love nothing more than a wallow in their own misery
JANUARY? Depressed? These self-pitying acts unable to see past their own dejected noses will provide the perfect soundtrack for your gloom.

Relationships

Dating app introduces seasonal desperation mode

TINDER has rolled out a seasonal desperation mode to connect users who are anxious to get laid by the first of January.

Inclusive gesture of inviting son's boyfriend for Christmas ruined by what a twat he is

THE wonderful, embracing decision to invite a son’s boyfriend for a Christmas meal has been spoiled by said boyfriend being an arsehole.

Mum interpreting every gift as passive-aggressive slight

A MOTHER believes every present she has opened from her husband and children to be a covert critique on her personality and parenting.

'Go on, it's Christmas!' says woman treating herself to affair

A WOMAN is indulging in an extra-marital affair on the grounds that it is the festive season and she has had a hard year.

Report: millions of women just letting men put gross willies in them

MILLIONS of woman across the world are, against their better judgment, still allowing men to put their gross willies inside of them, research has found.

Ladies, are minimum standards stopping you meeting the right guy? By a man

ASKING boyfriends to meet certain basic requirements can ruin a woman’s chances of love. Single man Martin Bishop explains why it’s time to stop being so picky.

Six ways to see near-naked ladies more respectable than using Grok
NEW Year means nudification to Elon Musk’s deranged AI stripping women on social media. If you need to see ladies in bikinis, these are more dignified than using Grok.

Science & Technology

'Telling your boss to f**k off sounds so cool and inspiring!' Your worst ideas validated by ChatGPT

NOT sure if the worst ideas you’ve ever had are in fact brilliant? Your supportive friend ChatGPT is here to endorse them.

Your ex, his hot new girlfriend and the others who should be banned from social media

AUSTRALIAN teens are the first demographic to be banned from social media, but they shouldn’t be the last. These six have no right to intrude on your evening doomscroll.

Grandad terrified he'll be next victim of AI deepfake porn

A RETIRED 80-year-old with no social media presence is understandably afraid his likeness will be stolen to generate pornographic deepfakes on the dark web.

We ask you: How will you satisfy your thirst for depravity now Grand Theft Auto VI is delayed?

GRAND Theft Auto VI will not now be released until next November. How will you slake your degenerate urges until then?

Heavy snow and closed roads: should they stop you going for a drive-thru McDonald's?
SNOW is falling. Roads are covered in black ice. Lanes are blocked by trucks that could progress no further. Should you still go for McDonald’s drive-thru?

Arts & Entertainment

Kid who wanted shit art supplies can't believe his f**king luck

A BOY who had his heart set on getting dry markers and ugly paints for Christmas is amazed to find them under the Christmas tree.

If Chris Rea wished to be known for his other work, he chose an inopportune time to leave us

CHRIS Rea, the Middlesbrough-born singer-songwriter who wanted to be known for his more serious work, has departed this life at exactly the wrong time for that.

Without a James Bond, a Doctor Who, Strictly presenters and a prime minister, Britain is defenceless

OUR national institutions have fallen one by one, and this weekend we lost the last. No Bond, no Who, no-one in Downing Street and no Strictly presenters. It’s over.

Avatar III: you're going to see it anyway aren't you, you shitehawks – our review

THREE years ago, I and my fellow critics gave Avatar II a kicking. Then it made $2.3 billion. We have never felt so powerless, and now it’s going to happen again.

Six other Doctor Who monsters you would, if you're honest, shag

NEW Doctor Who spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea centres around a man banging a Sea Devil. Fair enough, because you wouldn’t kick these out of bed.

Legitimate reasons why I keep you off my social media, by a boyfriend definitely not keeping his options open
BABE, I know you’re concerned about why you never appear on my Insta. So I want to address this transparently to reassure you while continuing to seem unattached.

Celebrity

How to have a Christmas sex party for one, by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

I CAN'T say 2025 was a great year, but I'll be doing my best to recreate some of the good times I had back in the day with good old Jeff.

Kick a bastard out of your family, urges King in Christmas address

KING Charles is to instruct the nation to look around at their family, decide who the bastard is and send them into exile in Norfolk.

Five people who are worse than me because they're hypocrites, actually, by Andrew

PORTRAYING me as the world’s worst person is lazy journalism. These people are way worse because they don’t practise what they preach.

Kelly LeBrock, and other sex symbols who appeared only in the most awful of films

KELLY LeBrock has been talking about her new career in ranching, but attempting to watch her films is a bit of a slog. Here are more sex symbols you have to be very committed to ogling. 

What to do when you arrive back at work to find your boss invaded Venezuela
BACK in the office? An unusual number of emails arrived while you were enjoying an extended break? Wait, he f**king did what? Shit, what are we going to do now?

Work

Whole year's worth of office sexual tension purged at Christmas party

A YEAR of simmering flirtation, suggestive Slack messages and provocatively reloaded printers spectacularly detonated last night at the Wexford Consulting Christmas event.

The wanker's guide to ensuring everyone knows you're working through Christmas

ARE you the one grafting all the way through the festive period? Want everyone to know it? These lines will leave nobody in any doubt as to how vitally important you are.

A plastic elf that shits chocolate: Secret Santa gifts for when you've no idea who the f**k they are

AGREED to the office Secret Santa and were handed an entirely unfamiliar name? And now you’ve got to buy them a present? Consider these cursory gifts.

Dad belatedly realises how f**ked up paper rounds were

A FATHER explaining to his sons that he coupled school with 13 hours of twilight manual labour a week has realised in hindsight how bizarre that was.

Older generation baffled by the idea of job satisfaction

ANYONE over 50 is perplexed by younger people’s delusions that work should be anything other than a thankless slog endured in order to buy things.

How to decorate your desk in a hollow charade of HR-compliant Christmas joy

PUTTING up a bit of tinsel to bring festive cheer to your corporate gulag? Best consider these issues first lest you fall foul of overzealous human resources.

Your astrological week ahead for January 3rd, with Psychic Bob
You judge how your year will go on how well the novelty New Year glasses in the shape of that year work. 2026 will be mediocre.

Alcohol

Boss can f**k off from works do after getting his round in

AN OFFICE manager has been invited to buy his round at this week’s office Christmas party and then leave so everybody can hate him.

Six Christmas songs, rewritten to be about drinking

CHRISTMAS is coming, yet unaccountably all our Christmas songs fail to mention the unstinting alcohol abuse which is the hallmark of the season. That can be fixed.

Vermouth and Vimto: Five cocktails to make when you're hammered and you've drunk all the good stuff

HOME from the pub but don’t want the party to end yet? Behold, five questionable mixers you can make without nipping back out to the corner shop.

How to get ripped without giving up booze: Pete Hegseth's high-alcohol workout

ANYONE else sick of gym bros saying you need to give up booze to get shredded? I’ve made heavy drinking part of my workout and I’m fitter than a Navy SEAL. You can be too.

Too posh to push? Fewer men than ever passing kidney stones naturally
FOR the first time, more men are electing for a procedure to dissolve kidney stones rather than naturally pushing the large, misshapen crystals out through their urethra.