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George Osborne to introduce Swearing Tax

critics calling for Osborne to stick it up his 25pIn an attempt to get Britain’s beleaguered finances under control, Chancellor George Osborne has revealed that a Swearing Tax is to be introduced in the next Budget.

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Spud U Like team up with The North Face for a more expensive jacket potato

cheese is extraThe high street take-away potato filler ‘Spud U Like’ has announced it is to go into partnership with ‘The North Face’ to offer it’s customers ‘a more expensive jacket potato‘. The new range will look and taste exactly the same as the current offering, but with the added credibility of ‘The North Face’ logo on the jacket.

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Feature: Just why do managers hold meetings in doorways?

‘Upon gaining a junior management position, the individual will tend to cluster close to a doorway along with other junior managers, much like young primates hanging around the scene of a kill.’

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Family slams ‘sick’ insurance company after receiving dead meerkat by post

Compare the postage, compare the pestage. Simples.‘I tried to explain to the children that the meerkat was ‘resting’, and that the smell was just the postman, but then its putrefied legs came away in my hand and splattered them with ooze,’ said Mrs Gorestone.

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Scientists hail first sighting of elusive bankers’ morals

physicists allowing themselves an extra scotch egg for lunch, as a bonus‘We knew one banker, somewhere, must have had a pang of guilt at least once,’ declared an exhausted and delighted spokesman.

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