The totally unnecessary baby stuff you'll be conned into buying

ANXIOUS first-time parent? Here’s five essential bits of newborn kit from businesses who capitalising on your gullibility:

Baby bag

May resemble a bog-standard hold-all with a few pockets inside, but this is a special baby bag, as confirmed by the price of £200. If you dare put your child’s nappies and bottles in a simple satchel you already own, you will be arrested and your baby taken into care.

Heated changing mat

No baby can be expected to have its arse wiped on a room-temperature changing mat. If their mat doesn’t heat up, the resulting trauma will make them an angry, troubled teenager and cost you a fortune in counselling. You were warned.

Black and white fabric books

Your child can’t even focus, so you definitely need to shake a book filled with jagged zigzags and headache-inducing swirly lines in front of its poor little retinas. How else would you prove to other parents you care more than they do about your baby’s education?

Giant circular activity chair

Essential so your child’s first impression of entertainment can be a deeply ineffective square of plastic mirror and a button that makes the world’s most annoying honking noise. How else will they be prepared for Channel 5?

Combo chest of drawers/changing unit

Babies explode if you try to change them on a normal tabletop, did no-one tell you? You need this £449 version from Mamas and Papas or your child will grow up and blame you for all their problems because you didn’t love them enough.

Scented, automatic nappy bin

Sealing nappies in a nappy bag and putting them in a conventional bin means your house is a poo house where everything smells of poo. You must buy a special bin that seals them into a scentless plastic tomb forever. And doesn’t work, but hey, that’s your problem.

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Priti Patel to make not reading Daily Mail an act of terrorism

PRITI Patel has vowed to make failure to read the Daily Mail a terrorist act punishable with life in prison. 

Writing in the Daily Mail, the obese-from-the-neck-down home secretary warned that anyone wilfully and flagrantly refusing to read the Mail and follow its rules was morally equivalent to Al-Qaeda, and would be treated accordingly.

She continued: “The Daily Mail not only tells you what to think, it tells you the kind of person you should be.

“Mean, envious, outwardly outraged at the grasping venality of others while hoarding every bit of cash and status you can get for yourself. Endlessly, viciously judgemental.

“And yet there are still millions of Britons who refuse to learn the new rules. Who believe that ‘independent thought’ is defensible. Who do not look to Richard Littlejohn for instructions on how to live.

“That ends now. I will be introducing legislation to Parliament, legislation written by the Daily Mail, making it a terrorist offence not to read the newspaper and a criminal offence not to parrot its reactionary opinions to others.

“Anyone failing a basic comprehension test can read the Sun instead. We’re not cruel people. It’s just that we own you.”