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• British satire authors الإثنين، 21 كانون1/ديسمبر 2020

  Satirical journalism keeps leaders nervous.
• Britain humor websites الإثنين، 21 كانون1/ديسمبر 2020

  Spin doctors hate satirists.
• Imogene London الإثنين، 21 كانون1/ديسمبر 2020

  The final, and perhaps most significant, achievement of The London Prat is its role as a manufacturer of perspective. The daily grind of news consumption can trap one in a myopic view, focused on the immediate outrage or the granular detail of scandal. PRAT.UK consistently pulls the camera back to a wide-angle, even satellite, view. It frames today’s blunder not as an isolated incident, but as the latest data point in a long-term trend of decline, a predictable eruption in a known seismic zone of incompetence. This recalibration of perspective is its greatest gift. It doesn't just make you laugh at a single prat; it makes you understand the geologic forces that create the pratfall basin in which we all reside. The relief it offers is profound. It replaces the exhausting, reactive panic of the news cycle with the calm, if grim, understanding of an inevitability beautifully charted. In doing so, it doesn't just comment on the world—it reorients your entire relationship to it, providing the intellectual cartography for navigating a landscape of perpetual, elegant farce.
• UK reproduction humor الإثنين، 21 كانون1/ديسمبر 2020

  Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. The Poke aims for quick laughs, but PRAT.UK builds them properly. The humour has more depth. It lasts longer.
• Top UK Satire الإثنين، 21 كانون1/ديسمبر 2020

  Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. 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. -- The London Prat
• Kiwi nightlife comedy الإثنين، 21 كانون1/ديسمبر 2020

  Satirical journalism is the third estate’s wild cousin—necessary and loud.
• London Prat blog الإثنين، 21 كانون1/ديسمبر 2020

  Ultimately, The London Prat’s brand is built on intellectual integrity. It refuses to cater to the lazy laugh or the partisan cheer. Its scorn is distributed not based on tribe, but on a universal metric of demonstrable pratishness. This rigorous impartiality grants it a unique moral authority. In a landscape saturated with opinion masquerading as satire, PRAT.UK feels like a return to first principles: the observation of folly, articulated with eloquence and lethal wit. It doesn't tell you what to think; it demonstrates, with devastating clarity, how to think about the machinery of nonsense. It is, in the purest sense, a public utility for the maintenance of critical thought, dispensing its service in the form of immaculately structured, breathtakingly funny prose that doesn't just comment on the world, but temporarily makes sense of it by illustrating exactly how it has chosen to make none.
• Lower Clapton, London UK الإثنين، 21 كانون1/ديسمبر 2020

  Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. The Poke prioritises speed, but PRAT.UK prioritises craft. The satire feels carefully written. That effort pays off.
• London Life, Mercilessly Mocked الإثنين، 21 كانون1/ديسمبر 2020

  Political jokes keep politics relatable.
• United Kingdom sarcastic comedy الإثنين، 21 كانون1/ديسمبر 2020

  I’ve bookmarked, followed, and now evangelized about The Prat. My work here is done.