Your astrological week ahead for October 19th, with Psychic Bob

Aries, March 21st–April 19th

Another day, another dollar. Another week, another Waller-Bridge.

Taurus, April 20th–May 20th

Signed up for an Iron Man. It involved literally NO ironing. I’m exhausted and my clothes are even more creased than they were 140.6 miles ago.

Gemini, May 21st–June 21st

That etiquette expert bloke is basically a dominatrix for the middle classes. ‘Oh, tell me again how common I am for using liquid soap! So humiliating! I’ve come!’

Cancer, June 22nd–July 22nd

“Could you put together a PowerPoint for Monday’s all-team meeting? Just to explain how you became the whitest guy in the office. Thanks man.”

Leo, July 23rd–August 22nd

Sneezed so strongly your nipples erected? Then you, my friend, are a medical marvel.

Virgo, August 23rd–September 22nd

Ghastly weather. Instead of frying an egg on the Daimler’s bonnet you’re having to smoke kedgeree in the boot.

Libra, September 23rd–October 22nd

‘Wait,’ thinks Stephen King, ‘Red Rum backwards is murder! This is f**king gold. I can get a whole book out of this.’

Scorpio, October 23rd–November 22nd

“No, I’m sorry. A gentleman never reveals his anal orifice.”

Sagittarius, November 22nd–December 21st

What if I don’t want to buy anything and just pay you £4.95 for some postage and packaging?

Capricorn, December 22nd–January 19th

In a world of scarce resources and constant threat, Pac-Man would have sadly turned on Ms. Pac-Man in a cannibalistic frenzy.

Aquarius, January 20th–February 18th

‘Caution: changed priorities ahead’ the sign said, immediately before a 38-year-old man telling everyone that his career in the City seems so unimportant now he’s had children.

Pisces, February 19th–March 20th

Every time you go through airport security you worry today’s the day you absentmindedly filled your carry-on with knives and Kalashnikovs. And wouldn’t you bloody know it…

The Archbishop of Canterbury on... Taylor Swift: easier to wank over than the Chemical Brothers

WAKING up with a perfectly clear head, I take a light breakfast, attend to my correspondence and then take morning worship, addressing the theme of the Impiety in the Modern Age without a single use of the word ‘fuck’.

Next I have an informal conversation over tea and biscuits with parishioners, before attending to further ecclesiastical matters, including an inspection of the restoration of one of the abbey’s stained glass windows. I use a short break in my schedule for 20 minutes of prayerful contemplation.

I am interrupted by BBC journalist Justin Webb. I should have mentioned he and a camera team were following me around for a live ‘fly on the wall’ documentary for BBC2.

‘Excuse me, Your Grace,’ he says. ‘But I am surprised at your behaviour. I had been given to understand that you were one of the church’s more, er, colourful characters. Why – why are you behaving like this?’

I peer at him penetratively. ‘Because I’m the fucking Archbishop of Canterbury, that’s why, you stupid fucking cunt.’ I proceed to explain that I am temporarily moderating my behaviour because I am not a shit-for-brains fucking rectum, unlike this fucker Webb, and I don’t need the fucking grief of being in the tabloids yet a-fucking-gain.

As a director cries ‘CUT’, I return to my chambers to take a second light breakfast and peruse a periodical. Therein I read that Conservative leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch has said in a pamphlet that autistic people have ‘economic privileges and protections’ and that schools, society and employers have to ‘work around them’.

Christ’s dead hamster on a fucking stick, you fucking what? You think autistic kids have hit some sort of fucking jackpot? And they just need to pull their fucking socks up? Are you grossly malignant or just plain fucking thick? I mean, seriously, how the fuck did you get a job in McDonald’s without deep-frying the McFlurries? And how did you rise like an especially dense turd to the top of the shit swamp that is the fucking Tory party? Seriously, if I were a Tory, I’d be looking at you like a dinosaur glancing up at an incoming fucking meteor! 

Taylor Swift has dominated the news headlines this week due to one of her gigs being a Keir Starmer ‘freebie’, requiring the use of numerous pictures of her. 

Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Taylor fucking Swift. Taylor fucking fucking fucking Swift. And in other news: Taylor Swift. There’s about a million more important things than Taylor Swift happening right now so for fuck’s sake, journalists, take your hands out of your fucking trousers and fucking write about them! Turns out one of Rachel Reeves’ aides has accepted gig tickets from big companies, but I doubt we’ll be hearing as much about that because you can’t wank over the Chemical Brothers!

Thomas Tuchel has been appointed manager of the England men’s football team. The Daily Mail, noting that Tuchel is German, have described his appointment as a ‘dark day for England’.

Hahaha, you pop-eyed, red-nosed bunch of fucking xenophobic hooter monkeys! I’ll tell you what was a dark day for fucking England, it was when you cunts were shrieking ‘Hurrah For The Blackshirts’ back in the fucking 1930s! No one buys this tabloid shitkicking any more, you fucking bigoted fossils! It was old hat in 1966, let alone 2024! The only reason anyone takes the fucking Daily Mail is for an unending montage of fat-shamed and ogled-at celebrity women, not to relive hating the damn Jerries! Mind you, Tuchel is as mad as a vat of frogs slowly reaching boiling point, so strap yourself in for a fucking fun ride, everyone!

Finally, health secretary Wes Streeting has suggested obese people could receive weight loss jabs to make them productive members of the workforce, despite experts warning the injections could cause side-effects.

I knew this Labour government would be several brown shades of shit but I never knew they’d be this fucking weird! Fat jabs? Is this your fucking payback to all those Big Pharma companies that have been fucking bankrolling you, Wes? I’m sure the fat skivers will be more productive once the drugs have made them sprout extra limbs, but fuck me bandy, Streeting, have you not considered, I dunno, helping them afford decent food? Or does that sound too much like the sort of thing a Labour government would do for your fucking liking?