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To the offices of the Daily Telegraph now, where a couple blamed something called the ‘cliff edge tax trap’ for not having children. Matthew and Nicole Griffiths apparently earn a combined £225,000 a year which is by their account not enough to pay for bringing up kids, having totted up (hypothetically, presumably) ‘£40,000 in childcare […]

Despite what we have been reassured by its techbro overlords, AI is a bit of a worry. Whether you’re a woman who has non-consensually ‘stripped’ by Grok or a graphic designer who has lost all their work thanks to AI ‘art’, it appears to be more of a hindrance to society than the help it […]

We now cross live to ‘WTF is wrong with the US Right? Episode 2,788’, where we find Kyle Rittenhouse, the man who was just 17 when he shot three people who were protesting against the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha Wisconsin – two of them fatally. The now-23-year-old has become the darling of […]

Like us you might not have come across Matt Wallace before. He’s got a whole load of followers on Twitter and appears to love spinning a conspiracy theory or three (thousand). We mention him because he wasn’t happy – he really wasn’t happy – with this woman who showed off the new home she bought […]

To the White House now, where Donald Trump was in a meeting with the people he cares about more than anyone else in the world – that’s right, oil industry executives. But even all those petrodollars in the same room wasn’t enough to stop Trump’s mind from wandering, in this case the ballroom he is […]

It’s Golden Globes time again, where the big winners were Adolescence off the telly and the big screen’s One Battle After Another. Host Nikki Glaser was back for a second year in a row, calling the ceremony ‘without a doubt the most important thing that’s happening in the world right now’. And it really was […]

We’re big fans of regional accents, but we’re not going to get into an argument here about which we consider to be the best. It’s certainly true that some accents can appear trickier for the untrained ear to understand than others, and here’s a perfect illustration of that as shared by Iain Cameron over on […]

Elon Musk’s campaign against the UK has been unavoidable for anyone who uses X. The tech billionaire who doesn’t like to be told ‘no’ has accused the country of clamping down on free speech, teaming up with right-wing agitators and politicians, like Tommy Robinson, briefly Nigel Farage, and the former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe. […]