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Everyone can have a good idea – well, most people can – but it takes something special to actually put that good idea into practice. Too often a good idea turns into a rubbish end result, which brings us to the corner of Reddit called ‘good taste but awful execution’. And they don’t come much […]

To the world of Kemi Badenoch, who is desperately hoping this week that the Tory party conference will be the first step towards something bigger rather than the final flailing of a leader destined for the historical footnotes. We know which one we’re betting on. Anyway, we mention Badenoch because she’s been letting a little […]

An old clip of BBC children’s TV presenters Dick and Dom (Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood) has been doing the rounds on Twitter for reasons that will soon become apparent. The comedy double act started their BBC careers in the famous ‘broom cupboard’ in the 1990s before getting their own Saturday morning show Dick and […]

We live in troubling and uncertain times, something we can surely all agree on no matter what our political persuasion. And some people’s fondness for harking back to a past in which everything was so much better might very possibly be part of the problem. Well, maybe. We say this after someone got all nostalgic […]

Forget sitting on the fence – when it comes to Reform UK, Lord Michael Heseltine reached straight for the F word. Not that one. Heseltine at Tory conf: “Fascists of the 30s are back… Trump’s language coincides with words here… The immigrant has replaced the Jew… We must make clear we will never have any […]

Kemi Badenoch’s been thinking long and hard about the Civil Service and decided that there is simply too many of them. So much so that she wants to shrink it back to the levels it was in 2016 because of how much it’s been outrageously inflated under successive governments since then. Conservative governments, obviously. Anyway, […]

Latest in an occasional series, self-own of the week surely goes to this proud Little Englander who shared the message no this bus stop ‘ad’ and asked if people agreed with it. It was posted by @Neccccy who describes themselves as ‘English till I die, proud of our great country and don’t want it ruined. […]

Chris Philp, the Shadow Home Secretary, has been entertaining the few attendees that have bothered to turn up to the annual Tory Party Conference by adding’jokes’ to his speech to spice things up. With the Tories currently polling lower than ever in their 191 year history, maybe it’s not his fault that his audience didn’t […]

Robert Jenrick seems to like nothing more than a bit of populist performative rhetoric, and if he can do it while channeling Alan Partridge, so much the better. Who could forget his attempt to make fare-dodging more of a talking point? This is the most spectacularly Alan Partridge thing that has ever happened, and I […]

Robert Jenrick seems to like nothing more than a bit of populist performative rhetoric, and if he can do it while channeling Alan Partridge, so much the better. Who could forget his attempt to make fare-dodging more of a talking point? This is the most spectacularly Alan Partridge thing that has ever happened, and I […]