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Cyber Security

Entire Workforce Ignores Genuine Pay Rise Email After Assuming It Is Another Phishing Test

Not one of the 340 employees at Brindlecombe Ledger & Sundry has opened an email announcing a 4.2 per cent pay rise, backdated to April, after each of…

By Tom Ashworth · 23 October 2026
Animals

Office Dog With Perfect Attendance Tells Hybrid Colleagues They ‘Don’t Know What Commitment Is’

I have been in the office every working day since the mandate was announced. That is five days a week, with one…

Tom Ashworth · 23 October 2026
Science

Interview: The Cloud Sitting Over Britain Since September Says Orionid Meteor Shower ‘Sounds Lovely, Do Send Pictures’

The Orionid meteor shower peaks overnight on 21 to 22 October. It is debris from Halley’s Comet, best viewed after 2am, away…

Sarah Kelsey · 22 October 2026
Environment

Firm’s Sustainability Report So Thoroughly Greenhushed That Sustainability Team Cannot Find It

The sustainability report at Dunmoggin Bulk Solutions has been missing since Tuesday, a state of affairs the company’s sustainability team describes as…

Tom Ashworth · 21 October 2026
Space

UK Space Agency, Absorbed Into Whitehall Department, Reassures Public It Is Still ‘In Orbit, Just Round Something Much Duller’

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Westminster. The UK Space Agency today confirmed that it has been absorbed into the Department for Science, Innovation and…

Sarah Kelsey · 20 October 2026
Business

‘I Haven’t Been Noticed Since 2014 and I’m Calling It Job Hugging’: A Column by a Man Who Has Not Updated His LinkedIn Since the Coalition

There is a word for what I have been doing since the spring of 2014, and I am pleased to learn that…

Tom Ashworth · 19 October 2026
Politics

Treasury Issues Statement Ruling Out Every Tax Rise Until Budget Day, When It Will Be Ruled Back In

HM TREASURY PRESS NOTICE For release: immediately, although most of it has been available since the second week of September. HM Treasury…

Tom Ashworth · 19 October 2026
Food and Drink

Digestive Biscuit Announces It Is Now ‘High Protein’ After Seeing What Everything Else Is Up To

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. ISSUED FROM THE BISCUIT TIN, SECOND SHELF, BEHIND THE GOOD MUGS. A digestive biscuit has today announced that it…

James Whitford · 18 October 2026
Health & Beauty

‘I Had One Job, and It Was Biscuits’: Voice in Man’s Head Gives Exit Interview After 41 Years of Food Noise

The voice in Martin Hollis’s head has spent 41 years on a single brief. It agreed to speak to us from a…

Sarah Kelsey · 17 October 2026
Automotive

Opinion: After Six Years and Four Submenus, I Have Finally Found the Demister, and I Would Like to Thank My Family, My Faith and a Forum Post From 2021

I am writing this with a perfectly clear windscreen. I would like that on the record, because for six years I could…

James Whitford · 17 October 2026
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  • Office Dog With Perfect Attendance Tells Hybrid Colleagues They ‘Don’t Know What Commitment Is’
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  • Firm’s Sustainability Report So Thoroughly Greenhushed That Sustainability Team Cannot Find It
  • UK Space Agency, Absorbed Into Whitehall Department, Reassures Public It Is Still ‘In Orbit, Just Round Something Much Duller’
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