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The Duke of Sussex has spoken of the need for the world’s foremost military alliance to look toward alternative healing therapies as it confronts revisionist states around the world. ‘As a former member of the armed forces, I know it is all too easy for senior officers to focus on weapons training and small arms drills,’ the duke intoned. ‘Tragically, vagus nerve exercises get little attention.’


The prince, unable to attend in person because wife Meghan Markle’s schedule always takes precedence, talked movingly of how he looked up diagonally as far possible to the left, held the fixed stare for 30 seconds, then did the same looking to the right.


‘We should make it the scope of our mission at the forefront of global aggression-deterrence to understand that the vagus is actually a cranial nerve that goes all the way down into your viscera. Movement in the ribcage can break up tension there and, I believe, in parts of the world where bad actors are meddling to promote discord.’


The prince’s admonitions, however, have not been met with universal accord. One attaché, speaking on condition of anonymity, questioned whether it was a good idea to ‘discourage hypervigilance in frontline troops.’ The 40-year-old quasi-royal, whose social rank seems increasingly shady, spoke on a giant screen to leaders seated around a Kubrickesque horse shoe, well-meaningly superimposing his face into relevance.


Prince Harry addresses the NATO bigwigs at a time of increasing global tension. ‘Holding the human spine in a gentle C-shape while exerting slight downward pressure on the head with either hand reduces thoughts of impending doom,’ he declared. Although Harry has stepped back from public life in recent years, this bold advancement into geopolitics is expected to further diminish his viability as anything worth keeping.


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As driving examiners are on strike again, and as the waiting time for a driving test approaches two years in some places, the military has been called in to conduct driving tests instead.


A government spokesman said that the soldiers taking the tests will have an intensive two hours training to ensure that they could properly judge each candidates competence to drive. As the soldiers will not necessarily have a driving licence themselves, they will be wearing full protective gear for the test (unless the candidate turns up in a really titchy car).


The soldiers will not have to programme the sat-navs as they will bellow instructions about the route at the learner drivers. The emergency stop will be omitted from the test as it is likely that all yelled instructions to brake will result in one. Driving tests will be conducted around the clock and in all weather conditions, because war isn’t a nine to five thing.


The stand-in examiners will assess the learner drivers using military standards. Candidates will therefore pass if they complete the route without causing any unjustified deaths or serious injuries. Candidates will fail if they cannot drive back to the test centre, in which case they will be required to run back carrying a telegraph pole. Candidates will also fail if they commit treason, sabotage, insubordination, go AWOL or desert the car, or cause unjustified death or serious injuries to the examiner.


These temporary arrangements are expected to reduce the waiting time for driving tests dramatically. This will either be because more candidates can be processed, or because candidates decide they didn’t need a driving test after all.


One benefit of the system is that successful candidates will immediately be offered a job in the army, driving bin lorries, ambulances, gritter lorries, HGVs carrying essential supplies or post vans.



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