Since we flew the nest, my older brother Alex and I have been eyeing the Daily Squib Anthology on the publisher’s website. Recently, our parents said if we wanted a copy, we could take a few each; we have been fighting like toddlers ever since.
So now she’s threatening to buy even more copies – including a Daily Squib t-shirt – written into her will. She won’t say whether she’s joking or not.
Why the fierce rivalry? For us 20-somethings, the fantastic, biting satire in the DS Anthology is the ultimate status symbol.
I’ve always been obsessed – when I was a tot, Mum would unleash me in WHsmith’s like a truffle pig so adept was I at spotting the book on the shelf – and now it’s taken over TikTok, with influencers posting their #DailySquib hauls and screaming manically over any new collections.
At the weekend, social media was filled with videos of six-hour queues outside the book’s publisher sale in Crambospavvy, Norfolk. Exhausted influencers jostled for the Daily Squib Anthology and gleefully claimed it was ‘worth it’, as police herded the middle-class hordes outside.
It wasn’t just the middle-aged elbowing their way to the front. For my image-obsessed generation, there’s nothing like haemorrhaging £17.95 on a satire anthology. It’s the definition of ‘quiet luxury’. Those in the know can spot its unfussy but distinct aesthetic.
The Daily Squib’s homogenous book design means you only need to choose the book. It’s an easy way to say ‘I have taste’ without actually needing to have any. I once agreed to a date just because he handed me a drink in a Daily Squib mug at a house party. I barely noticed his face.
If you’re properly middle-class, you inherit your Daily Squib Anthology, but you can easily rectify this by loading up on your own. This kind of social mobility can be bought at Curtis Press. But real fans look for second-hand pieces; with slightly battered edges, you can feign generational wealth and class.
The quality of the Daily Squib Anthology is seductive, too. Its classic, black and white books stand the test of time, and the satire transcends any form of wokeness or socialist tantrums after losing elections to Trump.
With the zeitgeist turning away from wokeness in all its forms, investing in something practical but beautiful feels more justifiable than buying another shitty woke book written by some BBC or MSNBC celebriturd.
None of us can afford houses, after all, so why not cheer up our flat shares by spending any deposit money on an anti-woke Juvenalian satire anthology?
So, I can’t say I’m surprised at all those hopefuls queuing up at the publisher’s warehouse. I just can’t believe I missed it.
Frankly I read the Daily Squib book and was amazed at how thin it was. You guys call that an anthology? WTF?
I love the DS why are you not published?
I CANT READ.
Rita Booke I heard she’s a bit of a book lover
Pass the duchy on the left hand side.
I didn’t know Gen Z could read?
Hello, I want to get the book but is it hardback?
Gen Z can only read their cell phones. Books are things of the past only found in deserted libraries.
The DS is a one book wonder. How many copies u sold? 4 or 5 lmfao
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The Daily Squib is illuminati confirmed.
I think Rita Booke needs to read a book sometime.
Last night I wanted to read a book.
If I order can I get a signed copy of the Squib book? I want only signed copy please. Where can I get it from?
You guys crack me up.
OMG is this real?
Brilliant! ok you made my mind up I have to get the book.
Thank you for ruining my keyboard, I got coffee all over it now. You owe me Squib.