Editorial Guidelines

The BJ invites submissions from everyone that (1) writes European English (2) has a sense of humour (or thinks so).

Though we do not have many editorial guidelines yet, we will keep this page up-to-date as we discover every day new lessons to be learnt in putting together this satirical online paper.

So far, these are the rules of thumb we follow:

• be funny or not funny but don’t be nasty! If you think Europe should sink like Atlantis did and all Eurocrats merit to be flogged, this is not the place for you to write for.
• as evidenced before our launch, don’t ask the person you are writing a satiric piece on for their prior views on that piece: there is a high likelihood that they will write about your not-yet-published article on their own blog and reveal that they have a sense of humor that is not fully in line with yours.
• if you are taking pain killers, don’t write about the pope.
• if you want to write about Europe, painkillers and/or booze can prove enlightening. Should your health however matter to you, reading a mainstream EU newspaper and a couple of midday press briefings transcripts usually provide ample material.