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The man was sitting on a bench killing time before catching the 21A back to his home in the Raverston Park area of the town when he first sniffed. A passer-by witnessed the sniff and immediately called the government emergency telephone number 444, set up for members of the citizenry to mandatorily use should they come across an incidence of public symptomology. Failure to inform on a sniffer will result in dismissal from work and legal penology.


The sniffer –‘Sniffer X- has been compounded in an unrevealed location while men in hamzat suits extract fluids from his experimental physiology, pending a lab report on his worth and viability as a human, going forward. Meanwhile, residents of Middlesborough expressed their gratitude to power. ‘Thanks to the lightning speed reactions of the authorities, I can sleep safely in the knowledge that Sniffer X might be dead tomorrow. But I will be fine.’


Pandemics occur when foreign bodies enter the human immune system and disrupt its regular uninfiltrated system of non-sickness before being passed on to people you don’t care for anyway. The sniffer had apparently paid no heed to years of clear instruction on how to be a pure body of antiseptic conformity. Many are calling for his capital punishment. ‘He didn’t follow the rules,’ said a resident holding a baby. ‘He must pay the price.’


Meanwhile, Lidl is still open. ‘We have no plans to close until official ministerial diktat. Our eggs and milk remain on sale.’ KFC also moved to qualm public fears that there might be a forestallation in the breadcrumbs supply chain. ‘So far we are still covering both boned and breast chicken pieces in breadcrumbs and a secret recipe nobody actually gives a shit about,’ said a spokesman, suppressing a sniff.




Pop group Hanson have decided to follow up their 1997 mega-hit MMMBop with a more grown up sound, surprising many by moving into infectious diseases. Fans have described their new track MMMPox as 'sick' and 'ill' and 'a real killer'.


Music industry insider Rachel Rutherford said 'MMMPox is clearly very, very catchy. There was an early release in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and it's just been spreading like wildfire. People are literally dying for it. I'm sure it will break into the European markets soon - and if white people start dying for it, then the world will actually take notice.'


The band M People and the footballer Kylian Mbappe have denied any involvement with MMMPox. M People asked 'what have you done today to make you feel proud?'. Mbappe replied that recently he had scored on debut for Real Madrid and as a result won the European Super Cup but he was proudest of publicly trashing the French far right.


Elsewhere, Tory intern Henry Hootington-Hurst briefly stopped buying canned goods and facemasks to say 'Death is coming. A new pandemic is on its way, just a few years after governments the world over failed to learn any lessons from the last one. Put the champagne on ice and rev up those VIP procurement lanes. The Tories are ready for some serious misconduct, without any consequences, obviously.'


Hootington-Hurst broke some special glass and sounded the bugle located behind it.


'I have summoned Boris. May God have mercy on us all.'





Scientific fingers are pointed squarely at cows who are now blamed for passing Bird Flu to humans after it jumped the species gap to mammals. Angry moovers and (milk) shakers are from across the UK Bovine offender community from Jersey to the Highlands, cattle have had enough.


They have formed a union, Cows Rising Against Persecution (CRAP), and are prepared to withhold milk, a spokescow said: 'Humans must stop squeezing our tits' #me.moo.


This latest attack comes on the back of world-wide recognition of their excessive production of methane, with the addition of other plants to their diet as a possible remedy. Cows blame this on Vegan fundamentalists, who would rather cut out the middleman and go straight for the nuts, or at least nut based milk and roasts, “This methane thing is a smoke screen, a load of bull, just hot air”.


Bovines have been plagued with TB for years and had tried to pass the buck to badgers. A Friesian spokescow mooed: “We wish to maintain our place as the most popular black and white animal in the UK countryside, if you’re looking for a scape-goat, the clue is in the name, Greatest Of All Time, my farty arse”.


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