The Loadstar Leader: No jokes, no fooling today 

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We thought about it. Briefly. 

A cheeky headline. A spoof container line. Perhaps a new “AI-powered, zero-emissions, blockchain-enabled barge” sailing weekly from Felixstowe to Mars. 

But not this year. 

Because right now, the world doesn’t need more nonsense. It’s drowning in it already. 

Between geopolitical tension, conflict in and around Iran, and the increasingly murky ...