Writer of the Month September 2023

Stewart Barclay has stormed ahead this month, beating MM who had a creditable second place score.  Well done everyone who pitched this month.  As usual the cartoon of the month follows the links to the subs and is followed by the tickers for the month



apepper

'Cutting down from 7 bins? Where to throw the unused one

add profanity to core curriculum

Keir Starmer attempts Brescuing a Brawful Brituation

Restraining order to keep Government away from country

Sunak trying to find worst time to have an election

BillClay

Journalists struggling to find metaphors for RAAC crisis

Man thinks Coeliac disease is just a fad to slow down his food order

Cara

Sam Levinson to produce new show featuring sad, naked teenagers

Woman in emotionally abusive relationship with neighbour's cat

CharlieH

Bank Specialising In Bad Debt And High Risk Surprises Market By Collapsing

Chipchase

Exclusive: Johnson tells the truth

Showbiz world stunned as Ant & Dec hand back their latest NTA award

Sunak: 'I'm backing Shapps'

chrisf

Competitor in men’s 100m ‘embarrassed by the attention’

DanWakling

Rejected titles for Liz Truss' book

Deskpilot3

Government explains how breaking the pension promise doesn’t in fact break the pension promise

That G20 declaration on Ukraine, in full

eppursimuove

British Museum to hold 'closing down sale!

Government to use CAPTCHA tool to help find RAAC

Impregnation of John Hurt was consensual, claims terrifying alien

On brand behaviour: 'If only we had known' say people who knew

Tories 'didn’t know there was anywhere north of Birmingham'

Gerontius

Somerset cheese factory forced to stop production

Ian Searle

Dogs seek urgent advice on possible ban of Suella Braverman XL

Jack the Quipper

On this day in history - September 16th

Yesterday's news... today!

James_doc

Met to Introduce Anti-Woke Crimes

Jeremynh

Civil service 'seriously considered' telling Queen that bears defecate in woods

Government hails UK scientists’ discovery of doesn’t-matter particles

Kids taunt Archimedes with "Who ate all the πs?"

Scientists discover that brain cells die in Alzheimer’s disease 'because they want to'

"Stop sending us these freaks!" plead residents of the Chiltern Hundreds

Lockjaw

From Grease MY Palm

Government puts the Dangerous Clogs Act into law

McDabble

Rebate from sewage processors result of sewage law

Security services warn over General Public infiltration in politics

The stretch of HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester may not stretch that far

Waste disposal, the UK way

Modelmaker

Architects move into computing

Bully XLs currently in the UK to be confiscated

British government leads the world in identifying crumbling schools says minister

Cost of lettuces that outlast Prime Ministers now 20% higher than inflation

Government likely to scrap HS2

KFC confuses Alabama city with bankrupt backwater metropolis

NewsBiscuit Book Review - we read the books so you don't have to bother

Sunak hoping for poll boost from Strictly performance

Niall

Millionaires more likely to be rich

NickB



Raggers

Your September Horoscope, by Toxic Meg

Sarah Tipper

Tomatoes decide to ripen after all

Sir Lupus

Chain pubs to replace happy hour with gouging time

Just don't f**king bother, Sunak tells nation

Manchester launches takeover bid for Birmingham

SteveB

Artificial Intelligence destroys humanity by writing a series of mushroom foraging books

BBC exposé on government 'State of Chaos' replaced by Conservative Party political broadcast

Covid-19 Omicron BA.2.86 'Pirola' mutation: Matt Hancock can't help snogging it

EXCLUSIVE: deadly spy at the heart of Westminster corridors of power NAMED

Isosceles triangles demand equilateral rights

stewartbarclay 

Braverman: 'What even are "refugees" and "human rights" anyway?'

Fast food joint: 'Your heart disease looks exactly like the photo'

Government calls in army to shoot anyone who looks like they might be protecting the planet

Grant Shapps is Defence Secretary - don't have nightmares!

Lib Dem conference 'now needs a second trestle table'

Michael Gove proclaims himself Baronet of Birmingham

Mobile footage of music gig 'really great to watch back'

NASA retrieves asteroid sample, but gets sued for theft

Seven deadly bins – Sunak to save the day

Spanish FA’s sexism gets out-Fox-ed

Sunak committed to more green coloured cars by 2035

Tories: 'People smuggling gangs are a small business success story'

'Woke' Concrete Closes Schools

Sydalg

A few more snippets from NB archives

Another dip in the NB archives

From Bay of Prigs to Sergeant de Pfepper: Newsbiscuit remembers the 1960s

Throngsman

Hollywood inundated with scripts about writers' strike

Titus

Apparently 'No one' was in charge of Post Office when it knowingly & falsely accused post-masters

Wrenfoe

99% of UK covered in nail bars

BBC/C4 unaware that Russell Brand was sexually active

Chris Packham's crime spree starts with bank job

Hollywood writers strike ends happily ever after

Labour's last policy dies in captivity

Murdoch to retire, leaving Evil nothing to do

Portacabin secretly invented RAAC & asbestos

The Maltese Falcon remake called 'My Driving Glasses'

Three little pigs regret using aerated concrete

Trudeau: 'Plucky Nazis beat Russia in WW2'

Worker 'taking one for the team' won't


Cartoon of the month is Built to last by Modelmaker


Headlines


Adrian Bamforth              

All American Bull Terriers to be electric by 2035

NASA confirm that space rock has the word 'space' running all the way through it

Northumberland cops call in Special Branch

Prison staff missed warning sign when escapee asked for a packed lunch

Schools receive highest RAAC results for second year running

apepper              

After exhaustive evaluation process, Murdoch selects his son as new chairman

Average speed on M25 to be raised to 20 MPH

Beau-Jolly           

Hardpessed vegetable grower takes a cut in celery

Russell Brand claims he was just being satyrical

bigbadbob         

Elon Musk’s chip implant programme opposed by Weight Watchers

Govt scraps HS2 North, promises to fill one pothole just outside Leeds

Karl voted least funny Marx brother

billclay  

Missile strikes on grain silos due to gluten intolerance, says Kremlin

DanWakling       

Liz Truss submits letter of No Competence

Deskpilot3          

£650 home test could detect gullibility

Bankrupt Birmingham Council may be forced to sell off Solihull

Birmingham to charge £5 to enter city. And £10 to leave

Crossword compiler has a lot to answer for

Govt announces HS3 link: Stockton to Darlington

Govt says HS2 money got spent on Covid. Soz

In-debt chef has his wages garnished

Kleptomaniac takes one for the team

Manchester leg of HS2 will be up the M6

New Govt promise to knock down 40 new hospitals

New treatment for premature ejaculation was a long time coming

Only 2,000 Clubcard points for a body cam

Porn star honoured with blue plaque

Russell Group universities distance themselves from shamed celebrity

Shoplifting epidemic: 14 branches of Wilko are missing

Smoke stoat! It's like skunk, but not as smelly

Speeding fines will fully fund NHS by 2035, says Mark Drakeford

Starmer promises to Get Brexit Undone

Supermarkets furious Christmas chocolate melting in the heat

Dick Everyman 

Braverman to bring in floating kennels for illegal dogs

FlashArry            

France fast-track asylum request from Australian rugby team

funnybowen     

Al Fayed funeral plans: Hearse to be driven fast through Paris tunnel by drunk chauffeur

Hokeyloki            

Rival spreadsheet manufacturers protest about Excel Bully

ian searle            

Stationery Minister denies there will be a delay in the delivery of HB2 pencils

Storm Agnes is actually Storm Brendan in drag

Jack the Quipper              

Keegan: "Tory education policy is as solid as concrete"

Met Police gun amnesty a success

Sunak reshuffle leaves jokers in pack

Two gangs rob same bank on same day – Police suspect a disorganised crime syndicate

Jim Skinz             

Sir Michael Gambgone

Spies posing as woodcutters are thought to be a splinter cell

Sycamore Gap to be turned into service station

Lockjaw

Birmingham: "We're considerably poorer than yaow"

MADJEZ              

Mike Yarwood praised for incredibly accurate impression of dead PM Harold Wilson

Police: Banning certain breeds of Chav more effective than banning their dogs

Russell Brand forced us to pull him off claims Youtube

mcdabble           

Alternative lower-cost HS2 proposal put forward by Hornby

Birmingham Council only has money to fund essentials, not women's salaries

Rishi Sunak grateful to dangerous dogs for a story he can appear tough on

Mick Turate        

Dominic Raab to be checked for cracks

GB News suspends itself

UK closed until further notice due to faulty government

Modelmaker      

20mph Welsh speed limit is a major boost for our industry say pedal car manufacturers   

Autotrader flooded with bin lorry ads as councils dispose of six out of every seven they own

Horror film about a killer teabag given a PG rating

Schools break up as kids go back

Raggers

Asylum seekers to be housed in unwanted wheelie bins

sinnick 

Mason Greenwood said to be looking forward to working with Luis Rubiales

Two imperialists agree to fight imperialism

Sir Lupus             

Wales first country to have protest in favour of road deaths

Sketchly               

LEGO rethinks its RAAC-themed bricks after market collapses

SteveB 

Inventor of Ozempic addresses huge audience

Light breeze off Bournemouth coast officially named Storm Rishi

Putin cheats at Jenga because he takes out several blocks at the same time

Stray cornflake down side of fridge fished out with retractable tape measure

'There are no such things as humans' confirm aliens

stewartbarclay 

Horror film Se7en to be remade with Rishi's bins

'Multiculturalism has failed' says British Asian Home Secretary

Sexual assault allegations are very on Brand

'We are sorry for the delay in Rishi's answers to questions about HS2.'

Sydalg  

Dermatology magazine starts Readers' Hives feature

Titus     

Bristol man wakes up to find he has mysteriously acquired a Banksy tattoo

Govt. condemns high-speed decision-making

Luis Rubiales kisses his job goodbye

Wilklose


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