From The Editor's Desk

Kia ora readers!

Well, The Satiriser has successfully launched and as of yet has not fallen back to Earth in what SpaceX mission control euphemistically calls a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. And that is largely down to you, my subscribers. Thanks heaps for the support. You are the wind beneath my sheets, er, my wings.

As I come to grips with the finer points of Substack I’ll be making some tweaks and improvements including (finally) replying to comments.

I’ll also be including a couple of buttons at the bottom of each article that look like this…

…to enable you to share across what I believe the young folk call ‘the socials’.

The first button will share the non-paywalled part of that particular article. The second will share The Satiriser’s front page.

Please don’t feel any obligation to do this. You didn’t sign up to be part of a marketing team, and it does seem that more and more these days we are exhorted to be just that. It seems I can’t even buy a three-pack of underpants online without being asked to Write A Review and Tell Us How We’re Doing.

(For the record, Farmers Menswear Department, the adjectives that spring to mind are ‘comfortable’ and ‘supportive’ which I will happily relate to the whole wide wide world upon negotiation of a fee)

All that said, if something I’ve written does elicit a chuckle, chortle or LOL and you do wish to pass it on, the facility is now there and I would be most grateful if you did.

As a reward for reading this far I present to you this photo from the UK election campaign of Lib-Dem leader Ed Davey falling off a paddleboard into the heavily-polluted Lake Windermere. Mr Davey was campaigning on a platform of removing raw sewage from waterways.

I invite you to construct your own caption to the photo, including what kind of creek Mr Davey may metaphorically have been up, and the soon-to-be absence of a paddle.

Thanks again

Andrew