[mwgriffith]

Does the register think it's the onion??

[angersock]

Eh, once in a while it's nice to see them raise their quality of reporting.

[meaty]

It's not much of a baseline to rise up from though...

[angersock]

Baby steps.

[MrMatters]

As far as I know, it's much more like a tabloid than satire (I'm not British though).

[glenjamin]

As a rule the register's articles/reporting are based in/on factual events, but often take an incredulous or satirical tone.

This is normally confined to the headline or the summary line, but sometimes applies to longer pieces.

[logn]

"The results were clear-cut, apparently: engineering students cared nothing for other human beings' feelings and had few of their own. They were cold-hearted and uncaring, remorseless human machines. By contrast the medical students were warm and bursting with empathy and love."

[ramayac]

This is the exact thing I was thinking "Is this some kind of joke? like an Onion article?". Well, as H G Keyserling once said: "Generalizing is always wrong".