In May last year, the BBC announced it planned to stop airing CBBC and BBC Four as traditional broadcast channels, due to cost-cutting measures and a seemingly admirable desire to “constantly innovate”. Going online-only might work for those lucky enough to have...
Happy pride month Punching Up readers! As the rainbows come out and the corporate world becomes an ally (for 30 days) we decided to explore how AI would react as different people. AI POLITICIAN Dear friends, As your political representative, I want to take a moment to...
The Office for Students has a new intern, but not the fun, unpaid kind. No, instead they’ve picked up an absolute fucking nerd who’s squaring up to the UK’s students. Arif Ahmed is the worksworth Rishi has employed to wage the war on woke in...
Attaching security tags to every basic food item will not make people shrug their shoulders and pay up. It will make them not eat. Punching Up asks whether this is more important than supermarkets losing money. They’re locking up milk, cheese and meat. The...
This Saturday is one of the jewels in the English sporting calendar’s crown as Manchester takes over London, with United and City meeting in the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium. It’s the first ever meeting of the two rivals in the showpiece event and is...
Riz Possnett, a trans rights activist, glued themself to the floor while wearing a “no more dead trans kids” t-shirt at a Kathleen Stock University of Oxford ‘debate’ on Tuesday evening. Fucking legend. Riz said: “The consequences of Stock’s message and the broader...
