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The Archbishop of Canterbury on… sure you've got enough Union Jacks, Yvette?

WAKING up with a hangover that requires me to consume 42 gallons of water in five minutes to assuage it, I reflect on the week’s ecclesiastical events. 

A white home counties roadman gets a ripped gym bod for da new term

WAGWAN? Active J is habsent from school. You see, fam, Drilla threw shade an’ posted a rank photo on Hinsta of man chillin’ what said: ‘Inactive J! Did him eat all da pies?’ It got bare likes. 

This week in Mash History: Cromwell bans Christmas after seeing mince pies in the shops on September 1st, 1647

THE celebration of Christmas for a full third of the year has long been an English tradition. But what many don’t realise is that for 13 years it wasn’t, because of mince pies.

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

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

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. 

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.

Your astrological week ahead for August 23rd, with Psychic Bob

Why did the band on the Titanic play Nearer My God to Thee? Bit on the nose when the encroaching freezing water was enough of a portent of doom. A jazzy tune like The Entertainer might have gone done better in the circumstances.

The Archbishop of Canterbury on… Trump, focusing on the positive side of slavery

WAKING up with a hangover so vast it has its own moons orbiting it, I am pleased to be informed of new rules regarding financial disclosure for members of the House of Lords.

Two-tier policing in action: here's what happened when this white middle-class woman tried shoplifting

WHY shouldn’t I? After all, nobody else is paying. But while the Albanians can walk out with armfuls of diamond bracelets, you guessed it – it’s different for Brits.

A confused millennial tries to… rizz up his girlfriend

MODERN dating is a hellscape. Or so my friends enjoying bountiful casual sex thanks to dating apps tell me. But relationships are the real AI-generated desert.