The comfort of hating Britain

I occasionally get sent articles from the ‘London Correspondent of the Papua New Guinea Courier’ – less often, now that most people have realised that it is a satirical blog, not an actual newspaper. The articles are a droll extension of the gag – and it’s a good gag – of describing British politics using the language of foreign correspondents, like referring to ‘UK strongman Rishi Sunak’ or ‘feared interior minister Suella Braverman’.

When I gently pointed out that it was all made up, the only person who admitted she had originally taken one of them for a real article insisted it said something true about the government. The fact that so many people on her Facebook page believed it, she said, told you something.

It does tell us something, but not about Rishi Sunak.