Caitlin Moran’s Week: Nuclear Rockets, No Ships, and the Perfect Brew

Britain is conducting space policy and diplomacy simultaneously and Caitlin has several cups of tea and many thoughts
Bohiney | The London Prat
By Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran’s Week: Nuclear Rockets, No Ships, and the Perfect Brew
I want to talk about the week as a totality, because the week has a character, and the character is: extremely ambitious about things very far away, completely passive about things very close, and drinking a lot of tea throughout. NASA announces a nuclear rocket. Exciting. Years away. Britain and France convene forty nations to discuss the Strait of Hormuz with zero ships dispatched. Happening now. The ratio of action to distance is inverted. We are very busy about very far things and very still about very near things. This is either national policy or the general condition of the Western liberal mind. Possibly both.
The Tea Situation
Fifth cup. Yorkshire Tea, two minutes exactly. The news does not improve with caffeine but at least you are warm while receiving it. The AI apology story arrived with the fourth cup. A machine now says sorry without meaning it. I pointed this out to the kettle. The kettle boiled and said nothing, which is the correct response. The complete guide to UK satirical news has the tradition that makes sense of why we are still here, filing columns about things that are simultaneously funny and genuinely alarming. The tradition says: yes, this is what it is. Yes it is worth describing with humour, because the humour is the thing that keeps the description from becoming a scream. Bohiney has the geopolitics. The London Prat has the specifically British angle. Sixth cup. We press on.
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Originally posted 2026-04-10 09:19:47.