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On Thursday, the White House played host to pharmaceutical executives as a backdrop to the government’s big press conference about lowering the price of some anti-obesity drugs. It all proved a little too much for Gordon Findlay of Novo Nordisk, who fainted, with Dr Mehmet Oz actually behaving like a real doctor, for a change. […]

Despite the promises of political parties, we’re all still battling the cossie livs, and it doesn’t look like the increased prices we’re experiencing are going away anytime soon. Which means that frivolity is out the window and any money wasted feels worse than it used to. They’ve been discussing the stressed state of our purses […]

It’s not often we get to experience, or even witness, sheer joy; we might see it on the face of a child as they open a gift or feel it in our very being when someone* completely owns Piers Morgan on Twitter. *Gary Lineker Animals, however, have obviously joyful moments daily – like this classic […]

Receiving a compliment is always welcome. But at times it can also be incredibly confusing. Reddit user WinoBagLady felt compelled to hear about the strangest compliments people have received, and invited r/AskUK users to share their strangest tales of flattery after getting this bizarre yet well-meaning feedback: ‘Not an underhand insult, but something the person […]

We’ve all been there before. You pull off the sickest burn off the top of your head. Your opponent has no comeback. It’s a unanimous victory. Then your sister shows up. That’s what happened to progressive activist, David Hogg. Hogg was led into activism after surviving the largest high school shooting in America’s history. He […]

You only have to look back about every three minutes for your social media feeds to refresh if you want to see Donald Trump stumble through a public appearance. The bar is low. Yet somehow, this latest “speech” still stands out. There’s the feeble manner in which the President is standing, clutching to the lectern […]

The political world got rocked this week when New York City elected Zohran Mamdani to be its next mayor. Mamdani is the youngest NYC mayor in over a century, he’s openly socialist, and he’s the first Muslim ever to be elected to this position. This is not going over well with the Magas. In addition […]

Opinions are like arseholes – everyone’s got one. And talking orseholes, everyone’s got an opinion about Donald Trump. But no-one puts its quite so well as author Oliver Kornetzke, whose take on the American president from a month or two back has just gone wildly viral again on Twitter after it was shared by Nancy […]

It’s not been a good week for Donald Trump, with Democrats celebrating positive election results across the US including the stunning victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral race. So no wonder the President was looking a bit down in the dumps, not that you’d expect large swathes of the American media to […]

As the old saying almost goes, there’s nowt so utterly bamboozling as folk. Any time you’re out and about in public, you’ll see people doing things that make you feel like the most normal and boring person in the world. They’ve been chatting about the weirdness of our fellow humans on the AskUK subreddit after […]