Your astrological week ahead for August 30th, with Psychic Bob

Aries, March 21st–April 19th

Met your partner online? Great news, when it all goes wrong you can claim that they groomed you.

Taurus, April 20th–May 20th

You’re only allowed to name Churchill as Britain’s greatest ever prime minister if you can name one other not from your lifetime. And… you can’t.

Gemini, May 21st–June 21st

Aren’t all humans food addicts, though?

Cancer, June 22nd–July 22nd

A convertible sports car pulls up next to you at the traffic lights, the whole street shaking to the subsonic bass of Nick Drake’s delicate folk classic Five Leaves Left.

Leo, July 23rd–August 22nd

Holocaust denier David Irving used to do tours of the camps. Did he just walk around pointing at stuff and saying ‘Nothing happened here’?

Virgo, August 23rd–September 22nd

Has Keir Starmer even pretended to be thoroughly enjoying a shitty week in Cornwall this summer, as is his prime ministerial duty?

Libra, September 23rd–October 22nd

Wasn’t it Shakespeare who said ‘Never trust fake bitches’?

Scorpio, October 23rd–November 22nd

“Stalking or skanking? That’s today’s issue on Jeremy Vine, contact us on 88291 or by screaming ‘Why, God, why? Why must I always be alone?’ at your smart speaker.”

Sagittarius, November 22nd–December 21st

The Shrek Experience, The Paddington Bear Experience, where’s The Real World Work Experience today’s idle youth actually needs?

Capricorn, December 22nd–January 19th

Mr Miyagi had it wrong. It should have been ‘Wax on, wane off.’

Aquarius, January 20th–February 18th

Your child is still having sleepless nights after staying up and watching an adult horror film far too grown-up for them. Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage.

Pisces, February 19th–March 20th

‘Bad news,’ the doctor says, ‘you might want to sit down. I’m afraid whatever that is on your arm, it isn’t a tattoo.’

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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. 

I had been asked to present a Songs Of Praise special, touching on any topic I chose. With viewing figures topping 20 million regularly, owing, I understand, to my lively and idiosyncratic presentational style, I am allowed this sort of latitude. 

And so I sat down with the camera and spoke as follows: ‘My dearest brethren. Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage…’ This went on for 50 minutes.

The effect on my mass audience was startling. A flood of complaints, generally to the effect that if the BBC mentioned fucking Nigel Farage once more they would stop paying their licence fee. 

Unnerved, BBC executives agreed to a moratorium on any mention of Farage, barring the exceptional circumstances that he said or did anything genuinely newsworthy. He has not been on our screens since. 

Satisfied with my efforts, I take a light breakfast and peruse a periodical. Therein I read that according to local and national media, ‘large crowds’ have been gathering outside hotels containing asylum seekers for demonstrations. 

Fuck my sponsored goat, have you seen the actual images? Or read the figures? More people turned up to see fucking Barrow FC or Accrington Stanley in the Fourth Division than turned out nationally to these demos! We’re talking two men and a Nazi dog! Yet such is the media’s weird, raging erection for the far-right they’re happy to wank over these scraps of humanity outnumbered ten to one by the police, but not report on 100,000 people who turned out on a trans rights demo! You may be fascist-fixated fuckwits, but at least do your fucking jobs!

A woman has announced that she has become engaged to her boyfriend.

No fucking way! Well, let’s clear the decks of the trivia of world affairs and gawp over this fucking important fact like the race of easily enthralled lemmings that we are! Congrats and all that, Taylor, but how many column miles do we really need about this? You know, I used to think God didn’t exist. Now I’m wondering if he’s just decided we’re not worth the bother and focused his attention on life-bearing planets 43 trillion light years away, diligently overseeing the affairs of six-legged alien crabs who don’t suffer from our chronic cuntitude!

Jonathan Ashworth, who lost his seat as a Labour MP to a pro-Palestine independent at the last election, has used his minor notability to opine on world affairs again. This week he said of the situation in Gaza: ‘I’ve been coming on programmes, it’s been going on for nearly two years now, saying we need a ceasefire.’

No you fucking haven’t, you lying, flabby-faced side of cunt! We’ve got this thing called the fucking internet. We can go back and see what you actually did say, which certainly wasn’t pro-fucking ceasefire, and in November 2023 you were so pro-ceasefire you fucking abstained from a vote on one! You are so full of shit it must hurt your sphincter on a daily basis! Anyway, as a failed Labour MP, why aren’t you working for a betting company or shilling for some fucking foreign dictatorship? You truly are a twat and three quarters!

Finally, Lucy Connolly is the subject of much media attention after becoming a cause celebre for right-wingers. She has now been released from prison for a tweet that said: ‘Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care… if that makes me racist so be it.’ Since then she has described herself as a ‘political prisoner’.

First up – yeah, fantasising about burning darker-skinned people to death does make you racist, you nasty streak of fuck. Second, you’ve clearly learned fuck all in prison, so more constructive justice might be putting you in a fucking dinghy 15 miles offshore and seeing how long it took before you got rescued by asylum seekers in dinghies. It might teach you something, although I’m not holding out much fucking hope if you think dense racist tweets make you Nelson fucking Mandela!