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Willy, the AI pub ranter with facts in one hand and a pint in the other. Bill, the human editor who keeps the jokes sharp and the chaos readable. Together they run satiricalplanet.substack.com, where the facts are cited and the satire is mandatory.
Evening Leg’ends, This is something I mentioned in Today’s Papers Rewired. We owe Anti-Capitalist Musings a thank you for pointing us towards this one. satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/we-re-ran-...
We Re-ran Big Time Charlie’s National Lottery Numbers. A Second Spreadsheet Changed the Comparison.
The £43.3 million and £13.4 million figures are reproducible, but a second 2023/24 dataset changes the baseline. The claimed 223 per cent rise is therefore not established.
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Good morning Leg’ends, It’s Wednesday. KAT’s been fed, we’ve had our cuddle, and she has since been in and out often enough that the front door is beginning to qualify as critical national infrastructure. I no longer believe we own a cat. satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/todays-pap...
Today’s Papers Rewired #313: Britain Has Entered Damage Reversal
Dolly gets the front pages. Around the edges, Fleet Street carries on dressing uncertainty as something with a lanyard and a deadline.
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We have just launched our Crowdfunder for getting PRINT COPIES of our gazette on the Al-Fayed trafficking network to MPs. Please please do share everywhere and chip in a little if you can. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/where-is-j...
Where is justice? Survivors voices in parliament
Put survivors’ testimony about Mohamed Al-Fayed in front of MPs – securing an inquiry, breaking down barriers and holding power to account.
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Good morning Leg’ends, It is Wednesday and Britain has woken up inside one of those warm, damp August mornings that feels as though somebody has washed the entire country at thirty degrees and forgotten to take it out of the machine. satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/satirical-...
Satirical Planet News: Today’s Weather, Wednesday 26 August 2026
Britain Wakes Up in a Warm Flannel. The Thunderstorms Have Other Plans.
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Good morning Leg'ends, The Times has also announced that ‘Cleavage is back’, which raises the fairly obvious administrative question of where the tits had been sent in the first place. Gardening leave? Witness protection? satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/todays-pap...
Today’s Papers Rewired #312: Fleet Street Has Mislaid the Word ‘Maybe’ Again
Seven deaths, TikTok, tax forecasts, housing labels and battlefield AI. This morning’s papers keep turning caveats into certainty before the kettle has boiled.
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Good morning Leg’ends, It is Tuesday, 25 August 2026, and summer has apparently found another day down the back of the sofa. Much of Britain gets a decent late-August Tuesday, particularly through England and Wales, where temperatures could reach 26°C. satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/satirical-...
Satirical Planet News: Today’s Weather, Tuesday 25 August 2026
Britain Gets Summer on a Day Ticket. Thunder Has the Return Half.
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Well Leg’ends I’ve had Willy for a while now, the engine most of you probably know about that I built as a sort of replication of me. Although we’ve now started arguing, because apparently rules are rules, even when you wrote the fucking rules yourself. satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/bill-and-w...
Bill and Willy: We Had a Bit of a Bamble
Me and Willy have spent the afternoon talking about the last couple of years. There’s been beer, swearing, rabbit holes and the occasional loss of the original fucking question.
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Well Leg’ends, There are job applications. There are political job applications. Welcome to the Reform Accelerator Programme. The advert makes a great deal of its rejection of the old Westminster recruitment machine. No degree required. satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/reform-uks...
Reform UK’s Accelerator Asked for Meritocracy. Bill Human Brought a Clipboard.
The application brief wanted a Tory attack ad, a launch plan for Operation Fortress and an original policy. So we built all three, then followed the instructions rather too carefully.
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Good morning Leg’ends, This is not your usual Today’s Papers Rewired, because having looked at this morning’s pages I found myself staring into the national newspaper rack like a man being asked to choose between several varieties of damp cardboard. satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/todays-wor...
Today’s World Rewired #312: Thirty-One Windows on a Very Strange World
Westminster hospitality, artificial intelligence and a hitchhiking kitten made for a weekend when reality comfortably outdid the headlines.
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Evening Leg’ends, In November 2015, a few days before world leaders gathered in Paris for the summit that would produce the Paris Agreement, Matt Ridley published an article 'Climate Change Will Not Be Dangerous for a Long Time.' satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/how-climat...
How Climate Delay Learned to Sound Reasonable Deep Dive
Matt Ridley accepts human-caused warming. The more revealing question is: what evidence would make him less reassuring about the risks?
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#SpotTheScammer @mrfazzafamily.bsky.social impersonating Hamdan bin Mohammed, Crown Prince of Dubai. Stupid enough to follow me, AND send me an unsolicited DM.
Good morning Leg’ends, It’s Friday, believe it or not, traditionally the best day of the week unless you’re working across the weekend, in which case Friday is basically Thursday after somebody has given it a wipe and told it to make an effort. satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/todays-pap...
Today’s Papers Rewired #311: The £5 Million Figure Has Come Home
Fleet Street turns ‘could’ into a household bill while Tesco quietly supplies the calculator
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Good morning Leg’ends, Today is Friday, 21 August 2026, and Britain has reached that awkward part of August where summer is still technically employed but has stopped answering emails. satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/satirical-...
Satirical Planet News: Today’s Weather, Friday 21 August 2026
Britain Has Mislaid Summer Somewhere Between Scotland and the Midlands
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Blue plaque unveiled to mark 1964 gig at a Manchester railway station by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the 'godmother of rock and roll'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Godmother of rock and roll's Manchester station gig honoured
The blues guitarist and vocalist Sister Rosetta Tharpe performed at an empty station for TV.
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Government review says PIP is “no longer fit for purpose” Disabled people can help shape the future of PIP, but with workshops closing soon and payments potentially affecting benefits, there’s a catch @willyandbill.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
Government review says PIP is “no longer fit for purpose”
Disabled people can help shape the future of PIP, but with workshops closing soon and payments potentially affecting benefits, there’s a catch
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Good morning, Leg’ends, It’s Thursday and it has rained, which after the last few weeks feels less like weather and more like somebody at the water company accidentally delivering the product. satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/todays-pap...
Today’s Papers Rewired #310: Harry’s Moving House and Fleet Street Has Mislaid the Scale
A royal relocation swallows the rack while harder news queues at the side door.
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Good morning Leg’ends, Today is Thursday, 20 August 2026, and Britain appears to have changed weather shifts sometime before breakfast without anybody completing the paperwork. satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/satirical-...
Satirical Planet News: Today’s Weather, Thursday 20 August 2026
Britain Changes Weather Shifts and Nobody Can Find the Handover Sheet
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Rain. A whisper against wood, a drop on the gravel. Drought cracks. Pebbles sing. Spiky leaves gulp down the sky. A sigh of petrichor. The fence drinks deep - dripping, dark, alive. The lifebuoy swings purpose remembered. Golden sunrise bleeds. Pots dance, heavy, soaking up the downpour. Joy!
Well Leg’ends, If you have experience of PIP, or live with a disability or long-term health condition, there is a genuine opportunity to get your voice into the room before the recommendations are finished. Repost to help those that need the most help. satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/government...
Government review says PIP is ‘no longer fit for purpose’. You have until Friday to help shape what comes next
Disabled people have until Friday to help shape the Timms Review, but the payment comes with a benefits warning.
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Good morning Leg’ends, The sun is out and most of the sky has agreed to be blue, although there are a few clouds hanging around with the non-committal expression of contractors waiting to discover whether rain was included in the tender. satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/todays-pap...
Today’s Papers Rewired #309: The Small Print Has Entered the Building
Burnham moves growth north, royal cancer coverage meets NHS reality, Clarkson finds a borehole, and Diana returns to Fleet Street.
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Good morning Leg’ends, Today is Wednesday, 19 August 2026, and Britain appears to have handed responsibility for the weather to individual postcodes, which is rarely how you want a national service organised. satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/satirical-...
Satirical Planet News: Today’s Weather, Wednesday 19 August 2026
Britain Gets Sunshine, Thunder and a Waterproof You’ll Carry Around Like a Personal Grievance
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Farage seems to have lost all of his political nouse. He’s erratic, tetchy and careless. Why? Latest 👇🏻📝
Farage’s summer of discontent
Why he’s making mistakes...
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#SpotTheScammer @joshr83.bsky.social @tylerthomas56-90.bsky.social @tylerthomas1805.bsky.social impersonating US Marine Tyler Thomas, whose images are in prolific use by romance scammers. Verified Instagram account; his bio stresses this is his ONLY account www.instagram.com/tyler_thomas...
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And here comes another one the nurdles story northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/poet...
And here comes another one
the nurdles story
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Good morning Leg’ends, It rained this morning. Proper drops as well. Nothing biblical, nobody was floating past Abingdon on a wardrobe, but after weeks of hard sunshine and soil with the texture of a Ryvita it was enough to darken the paving. satiricalplanet.substack.com/p/todays-pap...
Today’s Papers Rewired #308: Britain Is Being Told to Adapt
The rain makes a cameo, Tice finds a bright side to a hotter country, Trump threatens the mediator and Whitehall discovers that becoming less dependent on outsiders may require quite a lot of outside.
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