Fictional columnist

Linda Sources

Chief Political Correspondent

Linda has sources everywhere. Her sources have confirmed this. She cannot reveal them, mostly because they are her.

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Regulator Discovers Absolute Power, Immediately Demands The Moon’s Transfer Papers

After a real warning about Manchester City, a newly awakened office begins reviewing ownership documents for every football, moon and moderately large sandwich.

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Queue At Public Office Applies For Permit To Become A Smaller Queue

Residents of Lower Wombley spent three days waiting for a ticket that would allow them to join a queue waiting for permission to leave the queue.

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Town Hall Requires Permit Before Residents Can Notice New Bureaucracy

Officials say the new application process will simplify local government by adding seven offices, three queues and one ceremonial waiting room.

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Why I Still Attend The Annual Winter Sock Parliament

Each winter, I join Lower Wombley’s impossible hosiery ritual, because adulthood is mostly agreeing to nonsense indoors.

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New Bradford Station Expected To Repair North By Thursday

A planned railway station has been asked to solve every transport problem in the north, including several that involve weather and goats.

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Burnham Declares War On The Parking Ticket Empire

New rules let drivers challenge private charges, prompting a heroic campaign against the nation’s most vindictive machines.

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Grid Inquiry Finds Nation’s Electricity Has Been Running On Kettle Abstinence

Investigators uncovered serious cultural issues, plus a secret national strategy based on nobody boiling water during hot weather.

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Supermarket Installs Ministry Of Aisle Reconsideration After Shoppers Choose Wrong Cereal

The Lower Wombley Grocer has begun sending every purchase to a tiny cabinet for approval, delaying lunch by several ceremonial hours.

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Cornish Devolution Enters Its Pasty Era As Longtime Champion Steps Down

After 29 years leading Mebyon Kernow, Dick Cole is leaving the post, prompting Cornwall’s paperwork to demand independence immediately.

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Election Officials Ask Public to Wait While Democracy Completes Its Warm-Up

Some midterm races may take time to resolve, as counting advances at a speed best measured by geology.

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Unpopular opinion: Smartwatches are a scam as big as pockets

I have endured enough wrist-based nagging and demand that every smartwatch be replaced with a respectful egg timer.

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Britain Wins Freedom To Watch Geopolitical Crises From A Comfortable Distance

A new thinktank paper says Britain may need to rejoin the EU, prompting ministers to defend the nation's sovereign right to do nothing alone.

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Government Prepares Public For Joy Of Paying More For Less

As the 28 October Budget approaches, ministers reportedly hope voters will mistake reduced services for a premium tax experience.

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Why I Still Apologise To The Furniture Every Autumn

In Lower Wombley, the annual Hearth Apology reminds us that winter is easier when the chairs know we mean well.

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Campaign Ads Reach $10 Billion, Declare War On The Skip Button

As voters cut back on groceries and gas, political adverts have reportedly begun demanding tribute in the form of attention.

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Older Apprentices Hit With Luxury Training Surcharge

Ministers hope a 25% penalty on training over-25s will make youth apprenticeships look like the only affordable option.

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Heathrow Third Runway Debate Promoted To Permanent National Weather System

Ministers back growth while the runway question enters an exciting new phase of consultation, paperwork and mild atmospheric humming.

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Unpopular opinion: Travel pillows should be banned

I have endured enough inflatable neck loops, and I am ready to say what every upright passenger is secretly thinking.

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Devolution Plan Escalates As Every Roundabout Demands Its Own Parliament

A speech on sharing power has inspired a government blueprint in which even traffic islands can legislate on ceremonial paving.

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Cloned Number Plates Reportedly Living More Exciting Lives Than Their Owners

Innocent motorists say their cars are running red lights, while councils continue sending the vehicles their carefully curated consequences.

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Britain Celebrates Being Allowed To Call Its Cars European Again

The UK has welcomed France dropping its opposition, provided Britain matches EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.

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Council Saves Estates After Office Reshuffle Accidentally Awakens Concrete

Two south London housing estates have survived demolition, prompting nearby paving slabs to demand union recognition and a ceremonial tea break.

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Grid Pays Wind Farms £50m To Stop Working, Hires Gas Plants To Continue

Britain’s power system has reportedly discovered the benefits of paying one workforce to leave while recruiting another to do the same job.

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Voters Unite Around One Simple Demand: Make The Servers Stop Humming

Backlash over America’s expanding AI data centres has crossed party lines, species lines and, briefly, the line into sentient office equipment.

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