Your astrological week ahead for September 6th, with Psychic Bob

A villager in Midsomer wearily rises from his chair, picks up his ladder and goes to change the ‘IT HAS BEEN 12 DAYS SINCE OUR LAST MURDER’ sign back to zero.

How to pick a restaurant nobody's happy with

CHOOSING the suitable venue for a meal with friends means carefully balancing location, menu and price until everyone is equally pissed off. Follow these tips.

We ask you: should we just give a random man called Lee the England job?

NOBODY seems to want the England job and fans believe anyone could do it better than Gareth Southgate, so should we let this lad Lee Carsley do it?

Britons face not being able to have everything they want
THE UK’s debts and historically high tax levels could leave households unable to buy whatever they fancy, according to a new report.
The Archbishop of Canterbury on... mad old racist Uncle Tony

WAKING with a headache screaming like a guitar solo by the late Jimi Hendrix, I proudly reflect on my efforts to put on a concert in which Noel and Liam Gallagher join me to perform religious songs such as Kumbaya, My Lord. 

It's your birthday, and the other tragic reasons people go bowling

KNOCKING over skittles while wearing silly shoes is a uniquely depressing activity reserved for the most tragic occasions. Including these.

All male actors amazingly keep their hair

BARELY a single male actor or movie star has suffered male pattern baldness in decades, it has emerged.

The optimistic Labour voter's guide to f**king hating them two months later

WERE you not expecting miracles from Labour, but are now justifiably annoyed at how shit they actually are? Here’s how to cope with it for the next five f**king years.

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Politics

Thatcher would have loved this needlessly cruel, divisive gesture, says Starmer

KEIR Starmer has defended his controversial and petty decision to remove Margaret Thatcher’s portrait by saying it is exactly what she would have wanted.

You will be long dead and the sun will explode but then things will get better, promises Starmer

THE prime minister has reassured the public that Britain will be back on track in around five billion years when the sun has become a red giant.

Britain has been naughty, and I've got the austerity strap-on. By Rachel Reeves

YOU love a bit of austerity, don’t you? That’s what you voted for and now you’re going to get it - good and hard. No lube.

We won two world wars to put up with this bollocks: The gammon food critic visits a bierkeller
THIS might surprise you, but I’ve never had much time for the Germans. No sense of humour. Bloody awful electronic pop music. The food's not fit to give the dog. And I haven't even mentioned Hitler yet.

Society

Six things girls do that men wrongly and optimistically consider to be lesbian

WOMEN can hardly pillow-fight in frilly nightwear while giggling without men salivating over its sexy sapphism. These behaviours give them the hopeful horn...

Labour to fill your town with more ghastly little boxes and the 'people' who 'live' in them

THE government is to force councils, even in nice places, to build nasty little red boxes and to pack them with the kind of humans who can consider such a thing ‘home’.

No survey was necessary to confirm British 15-year-olds are miserable twats

A SURVEY which found UK 15-year-olds have the lowest life satisfaction in Europe has come as no surprise to their parents.

Angel, and other bits of London that sound nice but aren't

PERUSING an Underground map, you imagine London is filled with beautiful, charming enclaves. How wrong you are, for these quaint-sounding areas are actually shitholes.

This bank holiday the worst one, Britain agrees

THE August bank holiday is easily the worst of all the year’s bank holidays, the UK has decided.

Seven suggestions to improve Ms Gillian Anderson's sexy book, by a middle-aged fan
GILLIAN Anderson has just edited a collection of women’s sexual fantasies, Want, which is probably rather different to what her fans are used to. Here Tom Logan, 46, suggests some improvements. 

Lifestyle

'No balloon trip this safari': six unbearable privations families with private school kids must suffer

ETON is charging an extra 20 per cent and the rest of the country’s exclusive twat farms will surely follow, forcing the well-heeled to forgo these basic needs.

Man who got first round in will stay for five pints out of sheer pettiness

A MAN who grudgingly bought a round will stay out and drink more than he wanted to purely to make his money back, he has confirmed.

Drive a big digger: the childish items on every man's bucket list

EVERY man has a bucket list of achievements he dreamed of as a boy before bowing to societal pressure and pretending he meant a threesome. These are his true wants.

Gay man shatters stereotypes by being boring, unfunny and badly-dressed

A GROUND-BREAKING gay man is breaking the mould of well-dressed, hilarious and fascinating gay guys by being absolutely none of those things.

Adult bellend still says 'on a school night'

A GROWN man thinks it is cute for him to refer to weekday evening as ‘school nights’, it has emerged.

Astrology is real and Virgos are the worst, scientists confirm

A RESEARCH team has concluded that astrology is real and Virgos are total arseholes to a man.

Angela Rayner still on the decks
THE deputy prime minister has remained on the decks spinning fat tunes from the end of her holiday and into parliament, it has emerged.

Sport

We ask you: who can succeed Gary Lineker on Match of the Day now?

FOLLOWING the shocking exposure of Jermaine Jenas as neither bland nor sexless enough for The One Show, who will take football’s top presenting job?

Transfer market continues to make mockery of being a football fan

THE multi-million pound transfer market is once again ridiculing the pointless allegiances of football fans.

We ask you: which team has the unquestionable moral right to win the Premier League this season?

A NEW Premier League season has begun, but which club deserves to win it most and will therefore inevitably triumph?

Olympics abducted by deranged Scientologist

THE Olympic Games were kidnapped by an abseiling maniac from the Church of Scientology right under the noses of a global audience last night.

Hopes rise that cycling will now be banned

THE horrific crash during the women’s cycling at the Paris Olympics yesterday has raised hopes that cycling can now be stopped altogether.

Highbrow Australia indifferent to Olympics success

AUSTRALIA are fourth in the Olympic medal table despite the country’s disdain for any activity that emphasises physical achievement over intellectual prowess.

Leaving the toilet seat up proves we didn't piss through it, say perfect gentlemen
MEN have explained that they leave the toilet seat up not because they are lazy bastards, but so women can feel confident it will not be covered in piss.

Science & Technology

Short men really are inferior, say tall scientists

TALL researchers have concluded that short men are inferior in every possible way.

Bill Gates dies turning Windows back on

BILLIONAIRE and philanthropist Bill Gates has sacrificed his life to make Windows work again.

Entire world broken by shit update

A FAULTY software update has crippled banking, airlines, trains and everything else that runs on Windows, it has emerged.

You just can't handle a strong, incompetent, unpopular, bigoted Asian woman, Patel tells Tories
PRITI Patel feels she has only been knocked out of the Tory leadership race because the party is not ready for a strong woman with her awful qualities.

Arts & Entertainment

'Mad for it!' to 'They're shit anyway': The six stages of attempting to buy Oasis tickets

GOT up to buy Oasis tickets in your lucky bucket hat and round sunglasses? These are the six stages of your failure.

Play Cool Britannia II buzzword bingo!

BRITAIN'S media is frantically churning out witless articles about ‘Cool Britannia II’ thanks to the Oasis reunion. See how many of these words and phrases you can spot.

Seven classic Britpop tracks and the excruciating 90s memories they are inextricably linked to

CAME of age during Britpop? Can’t hear those classic songs without flashing back to a moment of buttock-clenching shame? These are the memories they evoke.

Beatles announce reunion out of spite

PAUL McCartney and Ringo Starr have announced a Beatles reunion purely out of spite.

Is £400 million enough for you to pretend your brother’s not a dick?

COULD you, for no more than £400 million pounds, pretend your brother is not a total arsehole for six weeks?

Eight iconic films your kids will be bored of within minutes

PARENTS love to curate their children’s viewing, perhaps in recognition they have little else to offer. Within 20 minutes of each of these beginning, the kids will be done.

Business

We didn't know if anyone would want to come, explains Ticketmaster

TICKETMASTER have explained tickets were only priced so low for Oasis’s concerts next year because they were not convinced it would be popular.

Ryanair wrestling Wetherspoons in gutter over a couple of cans

RYANAIR and Wetherspoons are fighting each other while rolling in filth and shouting incoherently, all over a couple of cans of lager.

Is child labour worth it for cheap clothes of terrible quality? A Shein shopper argues 'yes'

A SHEIN superfan has argued a little child exploitation in the developing world is worth it for easy access to cheap, poorly made clothes that she will wear once.

'Wonderfully low-maintenance': the bullshit phrases an estate agent would use to sell you

ESTATE agents, using the magic of language, can transform even the foulest shithole into a desirable property worth borrowing £300,000 for. Here’s how they would sell you.

We ask you: what music should Trump play at his rallies?
SOUL legend Isaac Hayes is the latest of many killjoy artists stopping Donald Trump playing their music at his rallies. What music would be suitable?

Work

Naive fool expects full-time job to provide liveable income

A SWEET, delusional man expects his 40-hour a week job to cover not only rent but utility bills and food, he has admitted.

Cunning boss praises staff to trick them into working harder

A DEVIOUS manager has heaped praise on his staff only because he knows it will motivate them to double their efforts.

Cool, sexy office of air-conditioned urban professionals watched enviously from sticky pavement

A RELAXED, fashionable office of high-earning professionals kept at a breezy 21 degrees is being watched jealously from the pavement outside.

Pool lifeguard has gut feeling today is the day he'll have to do something

A LIFEGUARD at a public swimming pool senses that the time may have finally come for him to perform an action that is neither sitting, standing or walking.

Gen Zer exhausted after day of visualising work

A TEENAGER is shattered after a full day of imagining what a full day at work would be like.

How to judge other people's shopping baskets while they're judging yours
SHOPPING late? Judging others by the content of their baskets, while never imagining they’re doing exactly the same to you? This is what you both think.

Alcohol

London scientists on brink of breaking £15 pint barrier

SCIENTISTS in Britain’s capital believe they are only months away from creating an ordinary point of beer which costs more than £15.

The top six things to eat at 2am pissed: ranked

SHITFACED way after midnight? Illogically hungry? These are the foods you will stumblingly prepare yourself, ranked from worst to best.

The best times of day to have a pint, ranked

PINTS are scientifically proven to make all your troubles melt away, but the time of day can make them taste even sweeter. These are the best times to drink one, ranked.

It is five pints in a beer garden o'clock

THE time is now exactly knock off work and drink five delicious pints in a beer garden o’clock, scientists have confirmed.

Friends suspect woman not drinking at wedding is hungover

GIGGLING friends suspect a woman, aged 33 and newly married, is refusing all alcohol because she is in a delicate condition after an epic session.

TL;DR: the Conservatives, Grenfell report concludes
THE Grenfell Tower Inquiry final report has saved the nation from trawling through its tragic pages by ending with a summary blaming the Conservative government.