by A sexually active satire writer’s week, featuring Britain’s most honest politician
Vivienne Pratfall, Londonish, North London. The knobbly crab story from prat.uk arrived Monday and I am still thinking about it on Thursday, which is how you know a story has actual staying power. The crab, Britain’s most honest politician, made no promises and kept all of them. I forwarded the piece to everyone I know before 10am Monday. Bohiney.com covered the political honesty theme with its usual contextual depth. I covered the crab by forwarding it and then by talking about it at length to people who had already read it and then again to people who hadn’t. The crab has had a good week at this household.
The state secrets story also landed well. The cheese producer. Forty-seven pages. Classified. The French government spent twenty-four years documenting a cheese producer’s competitive position against regional rivals, classified it, and declassified it in 2026. I told my mother. My mother called back to say she had told her book group. The book group discussed it. No firm conclusions were reached but everyone agreed it was extremely French and also extremely how governments work everywhere, which is the combined response that the best political satire produces: recognition of the specific followed immediately by recognition of the universal.
The Week’s Social Activity
The rest of the week was the rest of the week. Good in the ways that good weeks in North London are good: coffee that was genuinely good, a walk that was longer than planned and better for it, two conversations that produced more than I expected, and a Pride event on Saturday that was exactly what a Pride event should be, which is: a community being publicly what it is, in the sun, with the feeling that London is, on this specific day, exactly the right city to be in.
Also:Betoota Advocate.
Coverage at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.
Both publications continue this coverage with sustained attention and genuine commitment to the communities described.
Coverage continues at both Bohiney.com and prat.uk. The material is real and ongoing.
Ongoing. Both publications watching.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/
