Five drinking games to normalise getting hammered alone

DO you knock back your weekly units solo in a night only to wake up hungover and guilty? Normalise one-man piss-ups with these single-player drinking games.

Never have I ever

Essentially the same as the regular version but far more efficient because you know all your deepest secrets. To the outsider it might look like you’re just swigging Malbec from the bottle while blurting out confessions, but actually you’re riding the bullet train to partytown.

Beer pong

A British take on the American high school classic. Get your drinks, arrange them in that triangle formation, then drink them in whatever order you want because you’re crap at throwing ping pong balls into red plastic cups and you’d be sober all night otherwise.

Ibble Dibble

You’ve seen Thatcher make a hash of this game in The Crown, now it’s your turn to get in on the action. Grab a charred cork and nominate yourself every turn. Just don’t forget to dot your face with dibble ibbles while knocking them back or you’ll look a right weirdo.

Personal best

A cross between a marathon and a sprint, this game is all about seeing how many drinks you can neck in an hour then breaking that record. You’ll likely pass out having soiled yourself by the fourth hour, giving you something in common with actual long-distance runners.

Sitting in front of the TV surrounded by empty beer cans

The most popular solo drinking game of all. As its name suggests, the aim is to sit in front of your television while accumulating a floor strewn with empty beer cans. The number of cans doesn’t mean anything although the game is more fun if you switch on the TV.

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Move over, Churchill: who would be our greatest Britons today?

BACK in happier times the nation chose our 100 Greatest Britons and put Churchill at the top. But in the divided country we now live in, who would make the list? 

Wes from Love Island

In the innocence of 2002 we were happy to let also-rans like Charles Darwin and Sir Edward Elgar on the list. But in today’s desperate times heroes like Wes, who rose from obscurity to star in Dancing on Ice and Celebrity X-Factor, give us hope for the future.

Captain Sir Tom Moore

Handily replacing the old Sir Thomas More, who did nothing more than write boring philosophical treatises, centenarian Captain Tom did laps of his garden, raised £32 million for NHS charities and hit number one with Michael Ball. Constitutionally, that earns him the right to marry the Queen if Prince Phillip kicks the bucket.

Marcus Rashford

Able to control a government as deftly as he does a football, as well as feed more people than Jesus, Rashford is just a World Cup final hat-trick from the number one spot, or a red card against the Czech Republic away from becoming an national hate figure.

Nigel Farage

The man who transformed our nation into what it is today surely deserves recognition for his entirely selfless act, performed only to wake the lion that roars in all our hearts. A worthier replacement for Enoch Powell it is hard to imagine.

Ed Sheeran

The flame-haired bard of Framlingham was a mere boy when the list was last compiled and now bestrides the globe as a colossus, proving once again that when it comes to middle-of-the-road pop music we know no equals.

Winston Churchill

Sir Winston would never surrender his place on the list but would inevitably drop a few places because we’ve remembered he was racist. However he’d remain in the top 10 because gammons reckon that the Second World War was the best time ever.

The Go Compare man

We don’t invent stuff anymore. Nobody reads books and you can’t go to plays. Honestly, why not?