This week in history
Find out what the world was talking about and we were satirising this week in history. Updated every Monday.2006
Downing Street on truth serum alertConstituents request Jack Straw wears veil
'Remove your clothes', MP urges women
Straw veil row deepens with Cherie Blair remarks
Blunkett: 'I didn't see dodgy dossier'
2005
Jailing criminals breaches human rightsIn Brief: Voices 'drove Bush to it'
Support growing for Boris leadership bid
Boris Johnson formally announces Tory leadership candidacy
Man who had no chance of winning Tory leadership decides not to bother
2004
Tories to target apathy voteScandal of British immigrant shuttled around Africa
US to invade Greenland to remove threat from lack of WMD
"Presidenticide" to be pivotal campaign issue in Afghan elections.
Dubya's Week: Hair and teeth
Doctors tell Tories: We will not resuscitate
Prince Harry Potter denies allegations of cheating in A-level magic
Official Opening of Scottish Parliament to precede Official Damp Proof Coursing
European bureaucracy eats child
Lord Hutton to withdraw report, apologise to BBC
2003
Newsreaders hospitalised after Duncan Smith promiseDeadBrain adds instant win games
Guantanamo Bay interpreters suspected of Comical Ali influence
Schwarzenegger to decriminalise groping
WHO moves to contain IDS outbreak in Blackpool
Bush upset over Nobel Peace Prize, promises "decisive action"
Bush: Newly-discovered star part of Axis of Evil
England footballers play football in Turkey – shock
Van Damme, Lundgren to enter American politics
Tory leader "has office", to be investigated
2002
Tories announce conference plansHorror at Archer's book plans
Disappointment at fascist Tory speech
Tories plot rail sabotage
Shock research: Al Gore "discovered America"
Letwin proposes new policy crime
News story found alive in natural habitat
2001
Philosophers predict death for "everyone"DeadBrain lays off staff
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