Man can't wait until kids are gone so he can like them again

A FATHER cannot wait until his children are back at school so he can love them just the way he used to do.

The Archbishop of Canterbury on… Lucy Connolly: racist arson fantasies probably do count as racism

WAKING up with a hangover so severe the multicoloured emanations from my brain are causing an aurora borealis in my bedroom, I look back at my important contribution to current affairs this week. 

'Dickheads' and other more accurate terms to describe performative males

MEN who insincerely adopt female-friendly behaviours to attract women have been labelled ‘performative males’. However these far better terms exist.

Britain's Summer of Rage given two-star rating
BRITAIN’S much-hyped Summer of Rage was a disappointing let-down worth only two stars out of five, it has been revealed.
'You are a girlfriend respected the world over': How to use Trump's toadies' techniques in your own life

THIS week Trump’s cabinet could be seen engaging in some blatant brown-nosing. It was sickening, but maybe some sycophancy would advance your career and personal interests too? Try this.

How to host a barbecue that's actually better than Oasis's not that anyone f**king mentions it, by Chris Martin

HI, Chris here, Coldplay's lead singer, songwriter and spokesperson. The famous one. Even I'd struggle to pick out the rest of the band in a police line-up. The lucky anonymous bastards.

Wear nipple clamps, and other things men would rather do than ask for directions

EVEN the most unassuming, rational men have a deep-seated hatred of asking for directions. Here is the physical pain they would gladly endure instead.

'They are a sickness, I am the cure': The diary of a Ryanair cabin bag size enforcement vigilante

I STALK the airport, mind keen, senses honed. Watching for the subhuman scum who walk among us, flouting the law with cabin bags larger than 40cm by 30cm by 20cm.

Friend who claims to be okay thinking of living on a houseboat

A FRIEND who says they are fine is nevertheless considering moving out of their flat to live on a houseboat, it has emerged.

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Politics

Six places migrants can go now: ideas from the Council of Deranged Racists

WE have solved the migrant hotel problem, but apparently they don’t just vanish? No problem. We’ve used our collective expertise to find new locations to house them.

We ask you: how would you fill a £41 billion spending gap?

RACHEL Reeves needs to find £41 billion if she's to meet her self-imposed borrowing rules, according to a think tank. How would you rustle up the necessary funds?

'Donald just read a book at parties': Ghislaine Maxwell's new bullshit version of Trump and Epstein's relationship

GHISLAINE Maxwell is clearly being prepped to give an account of Trump and Epstein's friendship that exonerates the president. Here's the new version of events she's probably working on right now.

Cover for paedos and take bribes: Trump's advice to Starmer

PRESIDENT Trump has popped into the UK to give our beleaguered prime minister advice on how to be a great leader like he is. These are his tips.

Taylor Swift, and other musicians who are a bit f**ked without bad relationships
WILL Taylor Swift’s engagement leave her without crap relationships to write songs about? None of these artists would have enjoyed the same success without miserable love lives.

Society

GCSEs biased against thick kids, thick kids complain

TODAY’S GCSE results have once again shown academia’s clear and unjustifiable bias against children of average to low intelligence.

Just for fun, what would be your last text before the plane crashes?

PASSENGERS on a flight from Corfu wrote goodbye texts to loved ones after their plane suffered a terrifying engine fire. Just for a laugh, what would your last panicked SMS be?

'Self-respect' removed from Cambridge Dictionary

THE inclusion of ‘skibidi’ and ‘tradwife’ in the Cambridge Dictionary means it has been forced to remove ‘self-respect’ from its pages.

Anyone who says 'I couldn't have done it without you' is lying

THE phrase ‘I couldn’t have done it without you’ is a lie in every circumstance in which it is used without exception, research has found.

We ask you: Where would you like to see paved over with a data centre?

HUGE whirring data centres are set to expand across the UK. Which parts of the country would you like to see replaced with one?

Lifestyle

How to introduce a new fascist friend to your existing friends. By Robert Jenrick

YOU may be unsure how to introduce a new friend to your existing friendship group, especially if they're a far-right activist. Here’s how I make sure everyone gets along just fine.

Seven great ways to be a St George's flag knobhead this summer

TWATS are putting up England flags everywhere even though there’s no football tournament on and calling it Operation Raise The Colours. Here’s how to join them.

'Builder's tea' is annoying people's top drink

SO-CALLED builder's tea is the refreshment of choice among people who are irritating, it has emerged.

Terror as taxi driver joins in conversation

A FAMILY has been left terrified after a taxi driver joined in their conversation, revealing that he had been listening all along. 

Uncle sucking whole family into black hole of ancestral research

AN uncle has decided the entire family should be enslaved in his tedious quest to research their family history.

How to get completely over your lifelong thing for pale sensitive English boys by marrying a f**king bear
GOT a type? But sick of being let down by sensitive, poetic English or English-adjacent boys unworthy of your love? Here’s how to drop all that and marry a big-ass bear.

Sport

Why haven't United sacked their manager yet? Six reasons

RUBEN Amorim’s Manchester United have lost their first game one-nil to a team widely tipped as title contenders and yet he remains in post. Why?

Six traumatic memories from taking your child to his first football match

YOUR son’s first football match should be a wonderful bonding experience you’ll treasure forever, but instead all this shit happens.

Man heroically keeping his real opinion about the penalties to himself

A MAN with an extensive knowledge of football is patriotically refusing to voice his real views on the quality of yesterday’s penalty shootout.

Women maxed out on footballing inspiration

ENGLAND’S women have admitted they have reached a saturation point of being inspired by the Lionesses’ heroics.

Women better than men, again

WOMEN are officially much better than men, the Euro 25 final has proved for the second time.

Should I move to Dubai? The pros and are you f**king mental?, weighed up
LIFE’S going okay for you here in Britain, so should you move to a hardline Islamic monarchy in the desert? We consider the pluses and the absolutely f**k nos.

Science & Technology

We must stop children using VPNs to watch porn, says generation protected from it by a high shelf

YOUNG people must be stopped from using VPNs to access online porn, middle-aged people only barred from it by shelf-height and shame have asserted.

The Gen Z guide to overcoming your terror of using a phone to talk to someone

A NUMBER of schools have given teenagers conversation lessons to overcome their anxiety about speaking to an actual person about Clearing. Here are some extra tips.

Mobile phone more powerful than computer that sent man to the Moon unable to cope with 30-degree heat

A PHONE with more processing power than our space-faring ancestors had access to has been defeated by a hot afternoon.

Professions you'd be delighted to see destroyed by AI

THE effect of AI on jobs is expected to be bad. But having said that, there are some professions we’d be happy to see gone forever. Such as these…

Nothing said after five drinks counts, scientists agree

INSULTS, flirtations and generally talking bollocks are all null and void after a fifth drink has been consumed, scientists have confirmed.

Mystery as man who got sex no longer replying to texts
A WOMAN believes she has stumbled on one of the great unsolvable enigmas of our age after a man she slept with no longer replies to her texts.

Arts & Entertainment

Man buys Oasis box set, puts it on shelf, feels sad

A MIDDLE-AGED man is feeling oddly downhearted after buying an expensive limited edition box set of music by the favourite band of his youth.

'Go on Liam, say something about Noel'

LIAM Gallagher has been challenged to respond to his brother’s compliments toward him by opening up and saying the first thing that comes to mind.

Six great actors who will be remembered for their shittiest film

TERENCE Stamp has died, and his many acting triumphs are being overshadowed by his role as a one-dimensional villain in Superman II. These actors will suffer the same.

Deacon Blue, and other bands you'd happily forgotten until the Guardian dredged them up

THE Guardian loves its ‘How we made’ articles explaining how songs came into being. Unfortunately they also remind you of acts you were not a fan of at the time. Such as these...

David Bowie, and other artists who struck fear into grown adults with a bit of make-up

SOMETIMES all it takes to terrify the public is to dab on a bit of corpse paint or blusher. As these otherwise harmless musicians proved.

Theatre best sleep man has had in years

A MAN has enjoyed his deepest and most refreshing sleep in recent memory while attending the theatre, it has emerged.

Two people you don't know getting married
TWO strangers who have no idea who you are and never will have decided to get married, they have announced.

Business

Your imbecilic, half-witted and frankly bigoted ideas for the UK's new banknotes

THE Bank of England, learning nothing from Boaty McBoatface, invited the public to send in ideas for a major redesign of banknotes. This is why they wish they hadn’t.

Geekification of British men almost complete, announces Games Workshop

GAMES Workshop has announced its profits are up by a third and its transformation of Britain into a nation of geeks nears completion.

Why nobody must be punished for the Post Office scandal, by anyone in any kind of power

THERE is loose talk of penance. Of ‘having to pay’. But as a person who has done well in life, I believe we cannot punish anyone involved in the Post Office scandal.

'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.

Brexit? Stop immigration? Where on earth did you hear that nonsense? By Nigel Farage
YESTERDAY, I unveiled my grand new plan to end immigration forever. Yet people kept asking me about Brexit? Why, when it was unrelated to immigration in any way?

Work

Your salary safe from inflation, reassure bosses

THE 3.8 per cent rise in inflation will not trigger any confusing rises in your take-home pay, the UK’s employers have confirmed.

Manager accused of gaslighting proves staff wrong by denying reality and shifting blame

A RETAIL manager accused of gaslighting his staff hit back by outlining a compelling new narrative which proved they had invented the whole thing to hurt him.

Five homeworker hot weather outfits you were hoping other people wouldn't see

HAVE you been working from home and slobbing out in a state of undress due to the warm spell? Prepare to panic when a surprise visit or an Zoom call exposes one of these outfits.

White-collar worker fantasising about manual job he wouldn’t last five minutes in

A PAMPERED office worker is daydreaming of ditching his desk job for manual labour that would immediately destroy him.

Announcing your colonoscopy in morning meetings, and other ways to overshare at work

WORKMATES not got a lot going on? Treat them to every twist in your wild rollercoaster life with regular updates. These methods let you build insights into your life into your day.

Alcohol

Wine aisle adorned with 'Back 2 Skool' signage

SUPERMARKET wine aisles are currently covered with the same ‘Back to School’ promotional displays as aisles selling pencil cases and backpacks.

Legend finds way to go hard and go home at same time

A MAN believes he has discovered a bold new frontier of nights out by going hard and going home simultaneously.

We ask you: what event are you pairing with this weekend's alcohol?

BLAZING sun compels every Briton to indulge in alcohol at an event designed for same, whether called ‘Trudy’s wedding’ or ‘Glyndebourne’. What’s yours?

BuzzBallz: Your guide to surviving the unprecedented threat of 13.5% alcohol

A DANGEROUS new novelty drink, BuzzBallz, is sweeping the UK, the media has warned us. So is there any way to prevent this sherry-strength alcopop ruining your life? Try these measures.

Five things that are better than sex with you, specifically
SEX is widely regarded as extremely enjoyable, unless it’s with you. In which case these activities are suddenly much more appealing.