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

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World

The rest of the world is also wrong. We have checked.

2 objections · disagreement 3 out of 5, less than the rest of the paper (3.5). We will try harder · latest Sunday, 8 November 2026

World11:29 GMTDisagreement: 3 out of 5, opposed
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Being asked to form an Israeli coalition is a sentence, not a prize

The world calls the new mandate a historic blow to the incumbent. The Object Daily has read the job description and believes the blow has landed on the man who got the job.

Everyone else
Handing the mandate to Gadi Eisenkot is a historic setback for Benjamin Netanyahu and a possible turning point for Israeli politics.
The Object Daily
The mandate to form a coalition is a punishment, and the real beneficiary is whoever has been spared it.
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The section's charts

The Object Daily Statistics OfficeFact-checked by ourselvesRelative burden of post-election roles in a hung parliament

Index (forming a government = 100)

  1. Forming a government100
  2. Small-party kingmaker22
  3. Head of state15
  4. Declining invitations9
  5. Predicting failure4

The least enviable position in any deadlocked parliament is the one everybody is congratulating.

Source: The Object Daily Coalition Burden Unit, back of one envelope, Sunday morning · Satire

From “Being asked to form an Israeli coalition is a sentence, not a prize” →
The Object Daily Statistics OfficeFeels right. If you don't check.Proposed National Salvation Service: allocation of first-year budget
  • Absolution coordinators41%
  • Ofgrace (regulator)22%
  • Purgatory consultation19%
  • Rebranding15%
  • Actual salvation3%

Nationalise salvation and 97 per cent of the budget goes on everything except the product.

Source: The Object Daily's breakfast-table modelling unit, assumptions unaudited · Satire

From “The Vatican, a private monopoly of two thousand years, should not be selling nationalisation” →

More objections

Real figuresThe Consensus MeterThe stories in this section that most of the 14 outlets agreed to report.
  1. Israel's president asks opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to form a government7 of 14 outlets: BBC News, The Guardian, Sky News, The New York Times, NPR, CBS News, Al Jazeera.
  2. Pope Leo begins Latin American tour and calls for universal healthcare ahead of meeting Milei3 of 14 outlets: The Guardian, Sky News, CBS News.

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

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