Harry Yack started writing for current affairs blog the Simpleton soon after its formation in April 2011. Topics for discussion include the mainstream media, incompetent authority figures and anything covered by Have I Got News For You.

Published articles

• A Cheapo Easter (24 April 2011)
• Exclusive: Britain’s lost passports (26 April 2011)
• Royal Wedding crashers should expect frosty reception (28 April 2011)
• Snooker: 147s through the decades (1 May 2011)
• Source: Bin Laden found via Playstation Network (6 May 2011)
• Commercials: The ‘real’ television? (10 May 2011)
• From Trotter to Twitter: A brief history of human (mis)communication (16 May 2011)
• Ten Emergency Jokes no Comedy Writer Should Ever be Without (21 May 2011)
• The Gigg’s Up, Ryan: MP makes a mockery of super injunction (25 May 2011)
• Continued existence of World baffles believers (27 May 2011)
• E.Coli outbreak: Danish Marmite ban “not so stupid after all” (6 June 2011)
• Wimbledon 2011: Remembering John Isner and Nicolas Mahut’s ‘endless match’ (26 June 2011)
• News of the World phone tapping scandal “gift that keeps on giving” for Murdoch (6 July 2011)
• Hearing descends into chaos as Murdoch is left dis-custard (21 July 2011)