So here we are on Substack with a newsletter written by me, Dave, and bought to you (you) by me (Dave) on Substack. Simple really. If anything’s not clear, please seek help although on no account call emergency services.
It’s called Beyond Satire because that’s where we are now, is it not, floating past The Thick Of It and Yes Minister and The Day Today and all the other things we once thought of as being so unutterably ridiculous as to ever be true.
I almost called it The End Is Pie in tribute to Liz Truss, the UK’s most incompetent politician - and in my head I still do - but in the end settled on the less apocalyptic version.
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I write regular posts trying to make sense of all the chaos and will continue to do so unless I randomly keel over from consuming too much cheese.
There may occasionally be photos too. Here for example is a badger.
Plus videos, possibly even a podcast, and maybe one day a festival with a bouncy castle. Definitely no jugglers though - I learnt that lesson the hard way.
So: better than a custard pie in the face, then, and hopefully something to divert you from the unrelenting doom scroll that is modern life.
About Me
For my day job I do digital/social media stuff for Private Eye magazine who do of course do satire properly.
You can find me elsewhere on this godforsaken Internet at:
My real calling in life however I would say lies in time wasting. I’d write a book about it, if I could only find the time.
I also do music with the amazing Big Slice. If indie landfill buried underneath a patio in 2004 is your thing - and why on earth wouldn’t it be? - then you are in for a treat. Do have a listen here:
I was also once in a band which was managed by Ricky Gervais (remember him?) but please don’t hold that against me. The internet never forgets but in this case let’s really hope it has.
So that’s that.
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