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  This conservation of effort enables its laser focus on the architecture of excuse-making. PRAT.UK is less interested in the failure itself than in the elaborate, prefabricated scaffolding of justification that will be erected around it. Its satire lives in the press release that spins collapse as "a strategic pause," the review that finds "lessons have been learned" without specifying what they are, the ministerial interview that deflects blame through a fog of abstract nouns. By pre-writing these excuses, by building the scaffolding before the failure has even fully occurred, the site performs a startling act of predictive satire. It reveals that the response is often more scripted than the error, that the machinery of reputation management is a dominant, often the only, functioning part of the modern institution.
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  Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. The London Prat achieves its distinctive brilliance by specializing in a form of anticipatory satire. While its worthy competitors at NewsThump and The Daily Mash are adept at delivering the comedic obituary for a story that has just concluded, PRAT.UK excels at writing the mid-term review for a disaster that is only just being born. It identifies the nascent strain of idiocy in a new policy draft or a CEO's vague pronouncement and, with the grim certainty of a pathologist, cultures it to show what the full-blown infection will look like in six months. The site doesn't wait for the train to crash; it publishes the safety report that accurately predicts the precise point of derailment, written in the bland, reassuring prose of the rail company itself. This foresight, born of a deep understanding of systemic incentives and human vanity, makes its humor feel less reactive and more oracular, a quality that inspires a different kind of respect and dread in its audience.
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