Air Force One inflates, Trump offers voters $5,000, Ireland protests and Space Force discovers Starship Troopers was satire – Earth, please

The White House launches a deportation video game, Trump discovers brunette, and apparently the Moon now belongs to America

Two simultaneous events revealed an extraordinary overlap between allegations about political funding and proposals for cleaning it up

Greenland faces unwanted drilling, ICE gets electric gloves and a catering truck becomes presidential transport

Hardly back from his holiday, and Xylb’tok with his faithful felinoid Grzz’lax have chaos to deal with, both on Earth and on Mars

Our favourite Martian has escaped the endless Earthly circus for a well-earned holiday somewhere that is rather inappropriately named

Andy Burnham, please read this: it explains what disabled people need from their next Prime Minister

Opposition to plans for ‘small paradise’ island of Sazan becomes wave of dissent against establishment

Venezuela bombed, football embraced and algae triumphant – Week 70 proves that reality remains undefeated, despite attempts to rebrand it

Weddings skipped, peace prizes renamed and UFC arrives at the White House – Week 67 proves Earth has mistaken satire for governance

Wisdom can be found even in old fairytales, but where is it in modern politics?

A Martian mission almost spotted, blinking briefings, AI war memes and church land seizures – Week 65 proves Earth has fully entered the absurdity era

New evidence presented at Liverpool City Council’s Women’s Health Conference has revealed deepening inequalities affecting women

Dormouse – a protected woodland species originating in Europe, Asia and Africa and an adopted native of East Anglia and North West England. A character in Alice in Wonderland, very fond of tea. Also artist, writer and diarist of the post-Brexit years, living with Long Covid.

Monuments to self, messiahs in pixels and popes in the firing line – Week 61 confirms that on Earth, reality is not so much bent as enthusiastically reinterpreted

Mouthpieces removed, alliances misnamed and rockets heading out – Week 60 shows us that while some look up, others try to burn what’s below

Judges intervene, and Agent Orange unveils an invisible gift – Week 58 confirms that cause and effect remain on only speaking terms

Steak splurges, clown shoes, banknote meltdowns and the SAVE Act tantrum, Week 56 proves Earth politics still runs on pure absurdity

Week 54: rogue rovers, record rants, alien distractions and medals for men who didn’t win them Earth spins on in chaos

A Minneapolitan tells: at a sacred Native American spring in Minnesota a prayer camp rises against federal raids; reclaiming land, memory and shared humanity

Sewage politics, papal snubs, FBI stonewalling and The Boss rising – Earth remains gloriously, stubbornly chaotic