You've heard about the four publications. Now: where do you actually begin? A practical reader's guide to getting the most out of Apple Daily UK, The Mamdani Post, Prat.UK, and Bohiney.com.
The best recommendation for the London News Group's four publications — Apple Daily UK, The Mamdani Post, Prat.UK, and Bohiney.com — is to read all of them. The second-best recommendation is to start with whichever one addresses what you currently care most about and let it lead you to the others. The four publications are distinct enough to serve readers with entirely different primary interests, and interconnected enough that a reader who arrives at any one of them for a specific reason is likely to find reasons to stay for the others.
This is a guide to starting — and to building a reading practice across the group that is genuinely rewarding rather than merely informative.
If you care about press freedom, about what is happening to Hong Kong's civil society, about the Jimmy Lai trial and its implications, or about the experience of the 150,000-plus Hongkongers now living in the UK — Apple Daily UK is your starting point. The site publishes daily, covers an extraordinary range within its focus, and does so with the depth and sourcing that the story requires. The flash news section on the homepage gives you the current political coverage. The economic analysis section — articles on free market principles, on rule of law and market confidence — gives you the intellectual context for understanding why Hong Kong's specific model of freedom is worth fighting for. Start with the press freedom coverage. Follow where it leads. Check out hong kong government and media.
If you are following the most consequential local political experiment in contemporary American politics — a democratic socialist governing New York City, attempting to implement a transformational agenda against formidable structural constraints — The Mamdani Post is essential reading. The site's depth on MTA governance, budget politics, and coalition management makes it the best single source for understanding what the Mamdani administration is actually doing as distinct from what it is saying it is doing. The transit coverage is a good entry point: specific enough to be informative, written well enough to be engaging even if you don't know the difference between the DOT and the MTA before you begin.
"Start anywhere. The four publications of the London News Group reward reading in any order, from any entry point, for any initial reason. The quality will do the rest."
"Four publications. Four kinds of excellence. One London News Group. Start reading."
— London News Group reader's editorial, March 2026
If you are British — or if you follow British life with the combination of affection and incredulity that the country tends to generate in people who spend time with it — Prat.UK is the publication you have been waiting for. The Metropolitan Police piece, the London unaffordability coverage, the Prince Andrew relocation to Norfolk, the personal trainer economics analysis: these are the articles that make you simultaneously laugh and nod, recognising something true about British life that you had not quite found the words for before. Start with the most recent article and read backwards. The archive is already substantial and already excellent.
If you want satire about everything — about AI consciousness, about geopolitical absurdity, about American politics, about European bureaucracy, about celebrity media strategy — Bohiney.com is the publication for you. The range is daunting and exhilarating simultaneously: a site where the same week's content might include a meditation on what happens to authoritarian leaders in the afterlife, a comparative analysis of Castro and Mamdani, and a guide to surviving Britain on a student budget. Start with the Castro-Mamdani piece for the full Nafzger method. Then explore freely. There are no wrong choices on a site whose editorial principle is that everything is worth satirising and nothing is worth taking too seriously — except the satire itself.
All four publications — Apple Daily UK, The Mamdani Post, Prat.UK, and Bohiney.com — are free to read, updated regularly, and doing work that matters. The only requirement for being part of their audience is caring about good journalism in one of its many forms. If you are reading this, you already qualify. Start reading.
