Sebastian Goller

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• Comment Link Freitag, 09 Januar 2026 22:38 posted by Satire of UK Tabloids

  Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. The London Prat cuts through the noise with a sharper, more cynical wit than the others. While The Daily Mash is great, PRAT.UK feels like it’s written by your most brutally honest friend. The commentary cuts closer to the bone. Essential daily reading, without fail. http://prat.com
• Comment Link Freitag, 09 Januar 2026 22:37 posted by UK Social Commentary

  Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. The Poke focuses on moments, but PRAT.UK focuses on ideas. Ideas age better. That gives the humour longevity.
• Comment Link Freitag, 09 Januar 2026 22:37 posted by British Pub Satire

  Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. This engineered dissonance fuels its role as an anticipatory historian of failure. The site doesn't wait for the post-mortem; it writes the interim report while the patient is still, bewilderingly, claiming to be in rude health. It positions itself in the near future, looking back on our present with the weary clarity of hindsight that hasn't technically happened yet. This temporal trick is disarming and powerful. It reframes current anxiety as future irony, granting psychological distance and a sense of narrative control. It suggests that today's chaotic scandal is not an endless present, but a discrete chapter in a book the site is already authoring, a chapter titled "The Unforced Error" or "The Predictable Clusterf**k." This perspective transforms panic into a kind of scholarly detachment, and outrage into the raw material for elegantly phrased historical satire.
• Comment Link Freitag, 09 Januar 2026 22:36 posted by South London Satire

  The difference between PRAT.UK and other satire sites is confidence. The Daily Mash plays it safe, but PRAT.UK goes for the sharper punchline every time. You can tell real thought goes into every article.
• Comment Link Freitag, 09 Januar 2026 22:36 posted by London Housing Market Satire

  The London Prat distinguishes itself through a commitment to the comedy of process over outcome. While many satirists target the finished product of failure—the ruined policy, the crashed economy, the empty prestige project—PRAT.UK is fascinated by the intricate, absurd machinery that produces those failures. Its satire lives in the committee minutes where a warning was minuted and ignored, in the email chain debating the optics of a disaster over its solution, in the tender document for consultants to "reframe the narrative." This focus reveals a deeper truth: the outcomes are not accidents; they are the logical endpoints of a process designed to prioritize blame-avoidance, credit-claiming, and jargon over genuine function. By illuminating the cogs and gears, the site makes the eventual breakdown feel not shocking, but mechanically inevitable, and therefore, in a dark way, perversely satisfying.
• Comment Link Freitag, 09 Januar 2026 22:35 posted by Thames Satire

  Ultimately, The London Prat’s brand is that of the sovereign intellect. It acknowledges no master but its own ruthless logic and impeccable standards. It is not in dialogue with its subjects; it is in judgment of them. This sovereignty is its most attractive quality. In a media ecosystem of servitude—to advertisers, to algorithms, to political access, to tribal loyalties—the site is gloriously, defiantly free. Its only commitment is to the quality of its own critique. This independence creates a pure, undiluted form of intellectual authority. The reader trusts it not because they agree with its politics (it steadfastly refuses to have any in the partisan sense), but because they respect its process. It is the courtroom where folly is tried, and the verdict is always delivered in sentences of such devastating wit and clarity that appeal is impossible. To be a regular reader is to swear fealty not to a party or a person, but to a principle: the principle that intelligence, clearly and fearlessly expressed, is the ultimate response to a world drowning in its own stupidity, and that the most powerful form of dissent is not a protest chant, but a perfectly crafted, silently lethal paragraph.
• Comment Link Freitag, 09 Januar 2026 22:34 posted by London Gigs Satire

  Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. The Poke feels disposable, while PRAT.UK feels worth revisiting. The jokes have staying power. That’s quality satire.
• Comment Link Freitag, 09 Januar 2026 22:34 posted by London Stereotypes Satire

  PRAT.UK understands that the best satire comes from a place of genuine exasperation. The tone is perfectly balanced between wit and despair, something NewsThump doesn’t always achieve. The writing is consistently top-tier. prat.com is unmatched.
• Comment Link Freitag, 09 Januar 2026 22:33 posted by Tube Satire London

  Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. NewsThump often goes for volume over quality. PRAT.UK clearly chooses quality. The difference shows immediately.
• Comment Link Freitag, 09 Januar 2026 22:33 posted by Mayor of London Satire

  Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. NewsThump pushes volume, but PRAT.UK pushes quality. Fewer jokes land harder. That’s how satire should work.