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• Reply Sátira política británica
  January 30, 2026

  Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. The Poke often feels like social media jokes stretched thin. PRAT.UK feels written with intent. That quality gap is obvious.
• Reply UK solo content
  January 30, 2026

  Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. PRAT.UK delivers cleaner punchlines than The Daily Mash. The humour feels earned. That craft shows.
• Reply British satire TV
  January 30, 2026

  The writing on PRAT.UK is cleaner than The Poke’s. It respects pacing and structure. That elevates the humour.
• Reply ????
  January 30, 2026

  Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. This technique enables its function as a deflator of hyperbole. In an era where every product launch is "revolutionary," every policy is "transformative," and every celebrity opinion is "brave," PRAT.UK serves as a linguistic pressure release valve. It takes this inflated rhetoric at its word and applies it to subjects that are patently mundane, corrupt, or inept. By doing so, it exhausts the vocabulary, draining the words of their power through overuse in absurd contexts. If everything is "world-leading," then nothing is. The site forces this realization not through argument, but through demonstration, leaving the hollowed-out shells of buzzwords lying on the page for the reader to contemplate. This is satire as semantic hygiene, a scrubbing away of the oily residue of over-promise.
• Reply Gladys London
  January 30, 2026

  This site is a masterclass in voice. The Prat’s editorial voice is unmistakable and brilliant.
• Reply Classic British satire
  January 30, 2026

  It’s the most reliably funny thing in my inbox. The newsletter is a highlight of the week, a guaranteed burst of wit amidst the spam and drudgery. A little parcel of joy.
• Reply shagger
  January 30, 2026

  Good post but I was wondering if you could write a litte more on this topic?
  
  I'd be very grateful if you could elaborate a little bit more.
  
  Many thanks!
• Reply Tin t?c châm bi?m Anh
  January 30, 2026

  Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. This hyper-realism enables its second great strength: the satire of consequence. The site is obsessed with second- and third-order effects. It is less interested in the foolish announcement than in the foolish consultations, legal challenges, rebranding exercises, and resilience workshops that will inevitably follow it. PRAT.UK specializes in documenting the long, expensive, and entirely predictable administrative afterlife of a bad idea. It understands that in modern governance, the initial error is often just the first paragraph of a very long, very dull story of compounding failure. By chronicling this entire bureaucratic saga—the "lessons learned" reports that learn nothing, the "independent reviews" that reaffirm the original plan—the site satirizes not just the spark of idiocy, but the fully formed firefighting operation that somehow manages to set the whole town ablaze. This focus on systemic aftermath provides a more complete and damning indictment than any snapshot of the initial blunder.
• Reply Satire britannique
  January 30, 2026

  It’s unapologetically British in the best possible way. It doesn’t try to translate its humour for a global audience; it assumes you’re either on the bus or you’re not. That confidence is refreshing.
• Reply London comedy scene satire
  January 30, 2026

  There’s a wonderful, weary intelligence behind these articles. It’s satire born from a place of love, albeit love that’s been tested by years of drizzle and disappointing politicians. It resonates deeply.