Time for a British version of Andy Borowitz’s ‘Profiles in Ignorance’?

by Rashmee

Posted on September 30, 2022


Faced with Kamikwasi Kwarteng and Librium Liz, respectively chancellor and prime minister of Britain …

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‘Librium Liz’ has been doing a good job of sending herself up

by Rashmee

Posted on September 29, 2022


When I heard Liz Truss, Britain’s prime minister for barely three weeks, on the radio …

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Kamikwasi, Librium Liz: The great British joke factory

by Rashmee

Posted on September 28, 2022


The British joke factory runs on politicians’ blindness to their comedic aspects. Kamikwasi Kwarteng and …

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2017 in a nutshell: You start with a joke then Trump’s White House seriously sends it out

by Rashmee

Posted on March 20, 2017


Have you heard of Alexandra Petri? She writes for The Washington Post but the White …

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Trump and the ‘very unfair’ US constitution: Satire fails when reality keeps pace

by Rashmee

Posted on February 15, 2017


Someone somewhere wrote a wonderful line the other day: “satirists, after all, are flummoxed by …

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Ridicule, the ultimate takedown of Islamic State? Inshallah, one day soon

by Rashmee

Posted on July 27, 2016


Click here for The Bighdaddy show, a collection of short videos satirising the so-called Islamic …

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#Brexit: Mujahideen gallows humour & Egypt’s Bassem Youssef on empire

by Rashmee

Posted on June 27, 2016


Here’s a post-Brexit message from one radical Islamist to another. Transmitted via Telegram, a cloud…

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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK