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The 23 worst columns of 2023, part 3: Festive Shits from the Fetid Five

Most-read in 2023: The Octopus, the Plot, and Other Unwanted Johnsons

The 23 worst columns of 2023, part 2: Cracking up with the soft-boiled eggheads.

The 23 Worst Columns of 2023, part 1: Barbie, backlashes, and the usual bullshit.

Waving a Johnson around in public

Robin and Batman vs. The Deadline of Doom

Hell's Diplomat.

Piers Morgan Promotions presents... News-o-Mania XXIV

Telegraphed Intentions

The Free Speech Tsar's Red Top Palace

Starring David Cameron as Dirty Den

Why I've disappeared from Twitter/X

Review: Dorries and the Plot against Reality

Cracking up with the Egg Man

Ten things you should read.

False friends

Auctioning a haunted house.

The Pratfall in the Big Hall

Marx and no-marks.

Blue Balls: A short history of British Press rage at people who've "Never Kissed a Tory"

The crocodile and the clown.

Ohwellism

Keir of a Bland Planet

"It's only a game show."

10 good things to read

Review: Amol and Nick's SmugSodCast

Rerouting to Cable Street

Patrick Bateman for The Financial Times

Tim Stanley files Fourteen Words

Kapow! It's Nick and Amol vs. The News Avoiders

10 good things to read.

The values of the Arsehole Warehouse

'Substack pundit'

Emeritus Grise.

Footage of The Game.

In the shadow of 'The Nude Statesman'

Cock and Balls torture

Bad reflection

Scary monsters and super-spies

The Vampire Graveyard

Hot mic action.

Rashomon remade... with Rory Stewart

10 things worth reading.

Tom Newton Done.

Just whispers about Wilby

Live! Sold out! Unimaginable misery!

The greatest trick...

Orwell spinning at 45rpm

A note on The Daily Telegraph and the paranoid style in British newspapers

Columnist Translator: Keir Starmer's 'soft authoritarianism' and TikTok as the devil

Fear And Loathing in Lancashire (Part 2): Any metaphor to escape reality

Fear and loathing in Lancashire, Part One: A weekend at and in Rebellion

Why British newspaper columnists are worse than seagulls

On critics and jealousy

Twenty years on Harrowdown Hill

In search of a DMZ (DeMurdochized Zone)

Saturday Night/Sunday Warning S2E17: Legal Eagle's Nest

A refuge and a fortress

Bye, George

X Isn't Gon' Give It To Ya

Dark forces

"And then came the backlash!" Caitlin Moran in Can Dish It Out... shocker!

Media Studies is vital; PPE is a ‘Mickey Mouse’ degree.

The Assassination of Objective Reality by the Coward Fraser Nelson

The Shift

The Sun sent the dogs running after Huw Edwards. Now we should chase News UK.

10 more questions for The Sun about its 'BBC presenter' story.

Nine questions that The Sun should answer about its dodgy 'BBC presenter' story

Sunday Night/Monday Warning S2E17: The medium-sized breakfast

So rude! The columnist is surprised...

The NHS is not a question. But the British media wants to make sure it is.

And I got bored when I didn't have a blog/ And so I started a blog, man

Yawn on the Fourth of July

Cat shit 22

Joe Rogan's Kobayashi Maru

The Bright Distracting Fish

Columnist brain (non-fatal but chronic)

Saturday Night/Sunday Warning S2E16: In the Deathstar crèche

The Cockwomble Industrial Complex

The columnist blue screens

The British media is a boneyard

Night/Sunday Warning S2E15: And now we move onto liars...

Mizzy and the game

A stepping razor

No One Left To Cry To*

Don't trust the bastards' reviews of full Technicolor bastard-o-vision

Portrait of the newsletter writer as a sick man + a new music column

A little freak writes...

Something Amis

Obliteration of the Self

Jackboot tap-dancing

Emergency dispatch: Your future as an unperson

Emergency dispatch: Thin blue crime.

Alarmed

The origami castle

Stacked against you

At the buffet with assassins…

Weekend listening

‘Til next time...

Timmy Mallett in the arena

Fight! Fight! Fight! … uh… I mean debate.

* Layla plays *

Night/Sunday Warning S2E14: Debate prep.

Buzzed off

A wild ‘no one tells me what to write’

Night/Sunday Warning S2E13: Margaret Thatcher Atari game sent straight to landfill

Contempt

Introducing... Prominent Corrections.

Rolled

The war of Elon's ego

'A Large Language Model done it and ran away...'

Saturday Night/Sunday Warning S2E12: Dog's dick kicker (no ref. to Lord Austin)

You will go away first.

Savaged.

Loitering.

KoreshAI

Saturday Night/Sunday Warning S2E11: The Self Prize for Smug Arseholes

On a war footing

Noticing.

Exiting the Vampire's Arsehole

Saturday Night/Sunday Warning S2E10: Conflicting prurient interests

Tony Blair brand blinkers (20-year guarantee)

Bullied Broadcasting Corporation

A rotten Petrie dish

The Lineker rules

Saturday Night/Sunday Warning S2E9: Everyone will be Shah for 15 minutes

Orwell Statue Collapse

An unpleasant frequency.

One of those days.

Charlie.

What's water?

Saturday Night/Sunday Warning S2E8: Robot parrots don't wanna be too cool

Slop will eat itself

The extremists

The scorpion’s ‘scoop’

The columnist leaves the court

Saturday Night/Sunday Warning S2E7: League of Shithouses

The bulldog licks its final nettle

The only book.

No shame in the circle jerk

The twats

Saturday Night/Sunday Warning S2E6: Desired and undesired pathways

Pamela Paul's Boot Creep

Fringe interests

The excuses

Saturday Night/Sunday Warning S2E6: The Clash presents... Cut The Map.

Mapped out.

If you appear on TalkTV, you're a collaborator

Saturday Night/Sunday Warning S2E5: "Do you like Tom Verlaine? Is it going to rain today?"*

Counter-revolutionary action

The word of the day is “strike”

Newspapers keep flushing the BBC's head down the loo; it likes it

Boris and the missile | Marie and the mess

Saturday Night/Sunday Warning S2E4: I coulda been a newsletter writer...

I, Columnist

Insurgents in the cul-de-sac

The dubious Zelig behind Talk TV's Ghislaine Maxwell interview

Lord Rothermere in Marie Antoinette drag

Sonia and the Gender Cops

Saturday Night/Sunday Warning S2E3:

Clarkson and Coren in the Iron Bank

Concerned looks at the Copa Copaganda

National Hate Service

Ask Me Anything (Jan 2023 edition)

Saturday Night/Sunday Warning S2E2: Egg man profiled, goo goo a rube.

The Blimp Deflates

CORRECTED: The Sun is a dirty bomb

The Sun is a dirty bomb

Harried #4: Monsters Under Review

Harried #3: Pulling dead rabbits from the hat

Harried #2: Close Protection Racket

Saturday Night/Sunday Warning: A weekly miscellany of good things (Series 2, Episode 1)

Harried #1: Soldiering on.

Condemned to Witchell

Pearson's poisonous medicine

Tales from the Twat Controller