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Sunday, 8 November 2026Vol. 1 · No. 1 · Price: one objection
The Object Daily

We object. On principle.

The Object Daily Statistics Office

Numbers we disagree with

The Object Daily exists to object to what everyone agrees on. Here we measure how much they actually agree. The real figures are calculated from fourteen outlets' news feeds – every headline, not only the ones we object to – and from our own archive. The Object Daily's own charts at the bottom are satire, based on the editors' estimates from this morning. They are as good as anyone else's facts. Roughly.

The news flow

Every time the editors read the news, the Statistics Office sorts every headline from 14 outlets by subject – not only the ones we object to. This is what it looks like when nobody objects. Latest count: Sunday, 8 November 2026 at 09:42 GMT, 220 headlines.

Real figuresWhat the news is aboutShare of all 220 headlines. 23 per cent were about war, crime or accidents.
  1. Politics28%
  2. Sport15%
  3. Culture and entertainment11%
  4. War and conflict9%
  5. Crime9%
  6. Society9%
  7. Accidents and disasters5%
  8. Business3%
  9. Technology3%
  10. Science and health3%
  11. Climate and weather2%
  12. Other2%

Source: The Object Daily Statistics Office, from the outlets' public news feeds

Real figuresMisery indexThe share of each outlet's headlines about war, crime and accidents. The longer the bar, the worse the morning. Most misery right now: NBC News.
  1. NBC News56%
  2. Al Jazeera44%
  3. Daily Mail40%
  4. Sky News29%
  5. CBS News24%
  6. Fox News20%
  7. The Washington Post13%
  8. The Guardian12%
  9. NPR10%
  10. BBC News9%
  11. The Telegraph0%
  12. Financial Times0%
  13. The New York Times0%
  14. Politico0%

Source: The Object Daily Statistics Office, from the outlets' public news feeds

Real figuresWho covers whatHow much of each outlet's headlines were about each subject. The darker the square, the more. Read a column to see an outlet's profile, or a row to see who cared about the subject.

Percentage of each outlet's headlines

SubjectBBCGuardTelMailSkyFTNYTWaPoFoxNPRCBSNBCPolAJE
Politics222402429448350450401110024
War and conflict480829000010811032
Crime04024000016083304
Accidents and disasters4008000134081108
Business9004142200400000
Technology080402200004004
Science and health0000008041041100
Climate and weather080014080000004
Society131201614110254204008
Culture and entertainment2220012000131210121700
Sport26121000000052000016
Other040000000012600

Source: The Object Daily Statistics Office, from the outlets' public news feeds

Real figuresHome or awayHow much of each outlet's coverage was about Britain or America.
  1. The Washington Post100%
  2. Politico100%
  3. Fox News92%
  4. Daily Mail84%
  5. NBC News78%
  6. CBS News72%
  7. NPR60%
  8. The Telegraph57%
  9. Sky News57%
  10. The Guardian56%
  11. Financial Times56%
  12. The New York Times50%
  13. BBC News48%
  14. Al Jazeera24%

Source: The Object Daily Statistics Office, from the outlets' public news feeds

Real figuresThe news versus The Object DailyWhat the news flow was about, against what The Object Daily chose to object to (4 objections). Culture and entertainment is 11 per cent of the news flow and 0 per cent of our objections. We do not object to everything. Just almost everything. Politics gets 50 per cent of our objections but only 28 per cent of the news flow. That is where the consensus is thickest.

The news flowThe Object Daily's objections

  1. Politics28%50%
  2. Sport15%25%
  3. Culture and entertainment11%0%
  4. War and conflict9%0%
  5. Crime9%0%
  6. Society9%0%
  7. Accidents and disasters5%0%
  8. Business3%0%
  9. Technology3%25%
  10. Science and health3%0%
  11. Climate and weather2%0%

Source: The Object Daily Statistics Office and archive

Real figuresThe news mix, day by dayThe mix fills up day by day. The first count was made on Sunday, 8 November 2026, and in a few days you will see here which subjects are growing and shrinking.

Source: The Object Daily Statistics Office, one count per day

Real figuresThe Consensus Meter · Sunday, 8 November 2026How many of 14 outlets reported the stories in the latest edition. Every filled dot is an outlet that covered it – and so, by our definition, agreed with everyone else.
  1. Trump offers UFC chief Dana White the job of White House press secretary10 of 14 outlets: BBC News, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Sky News, Financial Times, Fox News, NPR, CBS News, NBC News, Al Jazeera.
  2. Manchester City's season falters after guilty verdict and heavy defeat at Nottingham Forest2 of 14 outlets: BBC News, The Telegraph.
  3. Burnham opens talks on Britain rejoining the European Union1 of 14 outlets: BBC News.
  4. UK public bodies swamped by complaints written by AI chatbots1 of 14 outlets: The Guardian.

Source: The Object Daily's survey of the news feeds of 14 outlets

Real figuresThe objection mapThe places where the stories happened. The bigger the circle, the more objections. 0 of 4 stories had no particular place in Britain or America.
Downing Street, London: 1 objectionThe White House, Washington DC: 1 objectionHouses of Parliament, London: 1 objectionCity Ground, Nottingham: 1 objectionEtihad Stadium, Manchester: 1 objectionThe White House, Washington DCEtihad Stadium, Manchester

Source: The Object Daily's articles. Map data: Natural Earth

PlaceObjections
Downing Street, London1
The White House, Washington DC1
Houses of Parliament, London1
City Ground, Nottingham1
Etihad Stadium, Manchester1
Real figuresDisagreement day by dayThe Object Daily's average disagreement per edition, on a scale from 1 (mildly sceptical) to 5 (implacably opposed).

Source: Opponeras arkiv

Real figuresWhat we object toNumber of objections per section.
  1. Politics2 st
  2. Technology1 st
  3. Sport1 st

Source: Opponeras arkiv

Real figuresThe more the media agree, the more we disagree?Each circle is the articles with the same number of reporting outlets and the same disagreement. The correlation is r = -0.53: the more outlets report a story, the less The Object Daily disagrees. It is a clear correlation, and we disagree with it.

Source: The Object Daily archive and fourteen outlets' news feeds

Real figuresThe outlets we most often disagree withHow many of the stories The Object Daily has objected to were reported by each outlet.
  1. BBC News3 st
  2. The Guardian2 st
  3. The Telegraph1 st
  4. Daily Mail1 st
  5. Sky News1 st
  6. Financial Times1 st
  7. Fox News1 st
  8. NPR1 st
  9. CBS News1 st
  10. NBC News1 st
  11. Al Jazeera1 st
  12. The New York Times0 st
  13. The Washington Post0 st
  14. Politico0 st

Source: Opponeras arkiv

Real figuresThe words everyone usedThe most common words in 220 news headlines, Sunday, 8 November 2026 at 09:42. A word counts once per headline.

Headlines

  1. trump20
  2. white13
  3. press12
  4. secretary12
  5. dana11
  6. israel11
  7. president10
  8. government9
  9. dead8
  10. eisenkot8
  11. killed8
  12. texas8
  13. arrested7
  14. krakow7
  15. carolina6

Source: The news feeds of fourteen outlets

Real figuresHeadlines per outletHow many fresh headlines (at most 25, from the past 24 hours) each outlet had when the editors read them.
OutletHeadlines
BBC News23
The Guardian25
The Telegraph7
Daily Mail25
Sky News7
Financial Times9
The New York Times12
The Washington Post8
Fox News25
NPR10
CBS News25
NBC News18
Politico1
Al Jazeera25

Source: The outlets' public RSS feeds

Real figuresWords of the weekThe trends fill up day by day. The first count was made on Sunday, 8 November 2026, and in a few days you will see here which words are growing and shrinking in the headlines.

Source: The news feeds of fourteen outlets, one count per day

The Object Daily's charts · figures that could be true

The charts that belong to the articles. The figures are the editors' own estimates, made this morning, and should not be used for anything. That has never stopped anyone before.

The Object Daily Statistics OfficeFigures that could be trueDraft answers to Question 14: what is your country for?
  • Queuing31%
  • Apologising22%
  • Weather commentary18%
  • Asking what it's for15%
  • Having been in it before14%

No single purpose commands a majority, which in itself may be the answer.

Source: Working group of one, convened at the breakfast table, Sunday morning · Satire

From “Britain should not rejoin the EU but apply afresh as a new country with no account history” →
The Object Daily Statistics OfficeCalculated on the back of an envelopeShare of public encounters ending in a declared winner, by format
  1. White House briefing0%
  2. Cable news panel3%
  3. Midterm elections100%
  4. Proposed scored briefing100%

The briefing room is the only arena in American public life where nobody has ever been declared the winner, and that is the thing that needs fixing.

Source: The Object Daily, from a ruler, a stack of old transcripts and a stopwatch borrowed from the sports desk · Satire

From “The briefing room has always been a cage fight, so it might as well have judges” →
The Object Daily Statistics OfficeFeels right. If you don't check.How a typical complaints team spends its week, before automation
  • Reading complaints71%
  • Typing 'sorry to hear'22%
  • Everything else, lunch7%

Ninety-three per cent of the week could be handed to a machine without anyone noticing, least of all the complainant.

Source: Estimate made this morning on the back of a council tax bill, The Object Daily · Satire

From “Machine-written complaints should be answered by machines, and Britain should take the afternoon off” →
The Object Daily Statistics OfficeFeels right. If you don't check.Demonstrated probity by margin of away defeat

Points on the Object Daily Probity Index

Each additional goal conceded away from home makes a club measurably more innocent, and a request from home supporters for a weekly fixture is conclusive.

Source: Object Daily compliance desk, calculated over a soft-boiled egg; not audited, on principle · Satire

From “City's defeat at the City Ground is the best evidence of good governance English football has seen” →