Tag: British Satire

Both groups insist their early start is the more punishing, and neither shows any sign of conceding the point WINDSOR — A long-running, entirely good-natured rivalry has emerged between Eton’s rowing squad and its chapel choir over which group genuinely endures the more punishing early morning schedule, with both sides presenting increasingly detailed cases for why their own pre-dawn routine…

Boys demand transparency, brunch options, and possibly a subcommittee The Announcement That Started It All Eton’s tuck shop has removed avocado toast from its short-lived brunch menu, a decision the school says was made “on catering grounds” and which the Sixth Form Political Society insists was made “on grounds no one has adequately explained.” The dish, introduced only last half…

College and Oppidans still cannot agree on what, precisely, a goal is A Feud Older Than the Photocopier The Eton Wall Game, a muddy, low-scoring contest played annually along a slightly curved brick wall, has once again produced a scoring dispute so intense that masters have been forced to convene an emergency Court of Wall Game Appeals, a body that…

Crew says protest was symbolic, admits boat was also just quite old A Protest on the Water Members of Eton’s Boat Club deliberately swamped one of the club’s older training boats on the Thames on Saturday morning, in what crew members describe as a “symbolic act” over the school’s refusal to install Wi-Fi in the erging shed, where boys complete…

A rare self-critical look at Eton College VIP’s own archive, published on the site itself There’s something genuinely unusual about a satire site turning its own critical eye on itself, but an honest review deserves the same standard regardless of who’s publishing it, so here’s a close, unsentimental read of the Eton College VIP archive, warts included, from the inside.…