He’s the icon of every disaffected youth of the nation, so it’s rewarding to see Prince Charles being promoted as a true political rebel. With his crazy wish for a utopia where radishes have equal rights with pop stars, cabbages with kings, Charles is proving to be one of the most profound political thinkers of his generation. Popularising an essentially anti-aesthetic movement to match anything thought up on the continent, Charles has long-since abandoned traditional notions of ‘beauty’, so famously characterised by Princess Diana, and has instead tried to promote something less — how shall we say – conventional. Yet like all radicals, he sometimes misses the mark. Denouncing the lovely Chinese government is just the latest in a long line of gaffes, for as every UK business, university, and government minister knows, China is the new Saudi Arabia. If only he had checked his facts on Google, Prince Charles would know that China has a human rights record cuddlier than anything recorded by Sir Cliff Richard.

Just because he shot a close friend in the face from close range and then remained quite close about it, Dick Cheney has become the butt of some pretty terrible jokes in the last week. Now the Vice President has challenged reporters to admit that he has never once tried to hide his love of hunting and has released the above picture from the post-election celebrations to back up his insistence that he’s always been a proud gunman. In honour of this openness, we are proud to announce the launch of Double Barrel Dick’s Shooting Gallery, our humble attempt to commemorate the world’s most enthusiastic buckshot baron. 

Re-launching a stagnating career is never easy but that hasn’t stopped David ‘Sin’s the new Virtue’ Blunkett giving it one last try. Wrapped up against the cold in the pelt of some innocent woodland creature, Blunkett was helping his new employer to pen a piece for the papers. Sporting a new haircut which his barber assured him ‘takes years from him’, Mr. Blunkett dismissed critics who, in the past, have labelled him a ‘lecherous old pervert who used his influence and power to further his own selfish ends whilst doing no jot of good during his time in government’. With a characteristic smile, he took the points in good humour. ‘They’re just jealous of my healthy glands and generosity of spirit, my darlings,’ he told reporters before turning his attention back to finding suitable words for desecrating the memory of the late Princess of Wales.