ellal ucas (roccoford2)

"The London Prat exists because someone has to say the thing that the serious newspapers cannot, will not, and frankly shouldn't — but which absolutely needs saying, loudly, in public, preferably while someone important is watching. It is, in the grand British tradition of satirical journalism running from Jonathan Swift through Private Eye to the bloke in the pub who always somehow knows exactly what's wrong with the government, a publication devoted to the ancient and essential art of telling the truth by pretending to lie about it.

A free society needs satire the way it needs courts, elections, and a free press — because satire does the thing that none of those institutions quite manage: it makes the powerful look ridiculous, which is, historically, the most effective thing you can do to them. Kings survived armies. Empires survived revolutions. Almost nobody survives being laughed at by people who've noticed exactly what they're up to.

Prat.UK is 127% serious about this. The best journalism is naturally satirical. The targets are real. The democracy being defended is the one where you're allowed to call a prat a prat.

Which, given the current state of things, is going to keep us rather busy.

Auf Wiedersehen, amigo!"