The Royal Society of the Confidently Correct Certain
Edition v7.17.2026 · This edition contains no new opinions, only the old ones, restated with greater confidence.
Comedy · Satire · Parody

The more things change, the more we are certain they have never been worse.

The Royal Society of the Confidently Certain is satirical comedy through the ages. Every generation is sure the one before it was hopeless, the one after it will ruin everything, and it alone has things figured out. Each has been half right, for two thousand years, in period costume. A masthead of correspondents, one from every era of history; Mr Fickle, President and Editor of The Reversalist…, the longest-running periodical in history.

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Firmly argued. Briefly believed.

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The Reversal

firmly held, briefly held convictions

Mr Fickle arrives at a conviction with total force, then reverses without conceding that anything has happened. The Reversal is where the turn is recorded, with dignity.

In every issue

  • This Week I Am Certain Of
  • My Last Reversal
  • The Register of Modern Indignities
  • Correspondence I Have Invented
  • A Word From My Apostrophe

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