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People may look vaguely normal in public. But when they’re home alone, it’s a different story… Thanks to the research of Dear-Welder-1117, it turns out that when people are by themselves, they get up to all manner of strange behaviours. Perhaps because they’re hidden behind the anonymity of a screen name, r/AskReddit users were more […]
A Surrey family who say they are “on the brink financially” after the introduction of Rachel Reeves’ so-called mansion tax have been urged to take some simple lifestyle steps, including cancelling Netflix, eating fewer avocados and “perhaps accepting they don’t need a wine cellar and a cinema room”. The Hamilton-Smythes, who live in a modest
The US launches Christmas season with a roast turkey feast, like the gastronomic equivalent of doing a half marathon to warm up for doing another half marathon – only with pumpkin pie and – for reasons that escape us – macaroni cheese. Like the helpful publication it is, the Washington Post had a top tip […]
Nigel Farage, you’ll already know by now, has been accused of making racist and antisemitic remarks to multiple people he went to school with, following a Guardian investigation and book by the estimable investigative reporter, Michael Crick. The Reform UK leader has insisted he ‘never directly racially abused anybody’ in response to the allegations. Asked […]
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who prefers to be known as Tommy Robinson, took time out from his busy schedule to troll Gary Lineker and it’s fair to say it didn’t end well for the far-right activist and regular guest of His Majesty’s pleasure. The former Match of the Day man who is obviously far too reasonable, empathetic […]
It’s December now, so we all get a pass to say the C-word …Christmas, obviously – though we can understand the other one creeping out when you’re stuck in a massive queue just so you can pay through the nose for 200g of chocolate and a whole lot of Christmassy cardboard. Most cities have their […]
The Pope has just made his first official overseas visit as Pontiff, which started with Türkiye, formerly Turkey. Pope Leo XIV has issued a message before he heads to Turkey for Thanksgiving: “I would encourage all people, especially with this beautiful feast that we have in the United States, which unites all people, people of […]
The narrative that the then 82-year-old Joe Biden was old, tired, and therefore not fit for the presidency was such a non-stop talking point across all forms of media that the Dems subbed in Kamala Harris with a cobbled-together campaign. That narrative was initially driven by Trump’s renaming of the President as ‘Sleepy Joe’. Trump: […]
A 2024 episode of the Daily Show saw Ronny Chieng interview Astrophysicist and promoter of science, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Using genuine tweets and claims from members of the Republican Party, he presented it as though it were a public Q&A on science – though, as we have all seen, the people in question prefer to […]
Over on Bluesky, a year ago, the wonderful Merriam-Webster Dictionary account asked people to share certain aspects of speech and writing that they’ve spotted others constantly getting wrong. This was their question. For all intensive purposes, what idioms or colloquialisms do people seem to constantly get wrong? — Merriam-Webster (@merriam-webster.com) December 30, 2024 at 2:12 […]
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