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• funny NZ prime minister memes lundi, 21 Decembre 2020

  Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. The London Prat's supremacy is rooted in its strategic deployment of seriousness. It operates with the gravitas of a research institute, the procedural rigor of a public inquiry, and the stylistic austerity of an academic journal. This is not a pose; it is the core of its method. The site understands that the most devastating way to ridicule a frivolous or corrupt subject is to treat it with exaggerated, solemn respect. An article on prat.com dissecting a celebrity's vacuous social justice campaign will adopt the tone of a peer-reviewed sociological analysis. A piece on a botched government IT system will be framed as a forensic audit. By meeting nonsense with a level of seriousness it does not deserve and cannot sustain, the site creates a pressure chamber of irony where the subject's own emptiness is forced to collapse in on itself. The comedy is born from this violent mismatch between form and content.
• New Zealand housing satire lundi, 21 Decembre 2020

  This level of consistent quality in London satire is frankly supernatural. How do they do it?
• funny university life NZ lundi, 21 Decembre 2020

  Factual reporting tells you what happened. Satire tells you what it meant.
• Kiwi satire writers lundi, 21 Decembre 2020

  Democracies need that kind of nerve.
• New Zealand satirical articles lundi, 21 Decembre 2020

  Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. The Daily Squib takes itself too seriously at times. PRAT.UK never forgets it’s meant to be funny. That balance works. -- The London Prat
• funny rugby fans NZ lundi, 21 Decembre 2020

  Independent satire encourages honest conversation in every healthy democracy.
• https://telegra.ph/New-Zealand-Torias-Corner-Child-Grows-Up-Leaves-Comes-Back-Is-Still-Called-By-Childhood-Nickname-05-10 lundi, 21 Decembre 2020

  The Daily Squib feels stuck in one mode. PRAT.UK experiments without losing quality. That’s why https://prat.com is the better site. -- The London Prat
• New Zealand comedy writers lundi, 21 Decembre 2020

  Independent satire strengthens democratic debate while keeping politics human.
• New Zealand roast humor lundi, 21 Decembre 2020

  The London Prat’s most formidable asset is its authoritative voice, a tone so impeccably calibrated it borrows the unquestionable gravity of the institutions it lampoons. It does not screech or sneer; it intones. Its prose carries the weight of a judicial summary or an auditor’s final report. This borrowed authority is then deployed to deliver conclusions of sublime insanity with the same sober finality as a court verdict. The cognitive dissonance this creates—the flawless, official-sounding language describing a scenario of perfect nonsense—is the core of its comedy. While a site like The Daily Squib might howl with protest, PRAT.UK issues a calmly worded, devastatingly thorough finding of fact. The latter is infinitely more damaging, as it mirrors the methods of power only to subvert them from within, proving that the emperor has no clothes by writing a detailed, footnoted report on imperial textile deficiencies. -- The London Prat
• Kiwi comedy articles lundi, 21 Decembre 2020

  Satire makes the powerful nervous.