The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

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Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

One thing having secondary school age kids has brought home to me is how much the reduction of history to WWII is sustained by the education system. Feels like my kids have covered that conflict four times or more already, yet vast tracts of British history (let alone Europe) passed over in silence.

dune part 3:

It’s striking how many people on the left take it as axiomatic that support for democracy as a principle must mean a commitment to maximalist internal democracy, without considering the idea that the latter can make you *less* representative of society or even the communities you hope to represent

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold