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You’ll already be more than familiar with the works of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the gun-loving, conspiracy-spreading Trump cheerleader in chief. We mention her because she’s just done a town hall meeting with her own constituents in her home stage of Georgia, which was frequently disrupted by protestors and where two people were Tasered by police. […]

TikTokker Nick Jackson – @niickjackson – performs a very useful service. He condenses a few news items down to a minute, keeping his followers on top of what’s going on in the world – well, a little bit of what’s going on. What he can’t do, apparently, is keep them informed of how to pronounce […]

You will probably be aware of the barely believable story of the American father who was deported to an El Salvador mega-prison by mistake and is now stuck there because Donald Trump’s administration is refusing to help get him back. Kilmar Ábrego García is one of hundreds of foreign-born men deported to the South American […]

There are certain events and rites of passage that you’d think everyone has gone through. But life is rarely as straightforward as that. For every experience you think is commonplace, there will be people lining up to tell you that they haven’t got round to it yet, usually to audible surprise. And we know this […]

Everybody’s talking about the hit HBO series The White Lotus, which details the antics of staff and visitors at the eponymous fictional luxury hotel chain, with each season set in a different location. British actor Jason Isaacs, probably best known for the role of Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film franchise, stars in season […]

When Liz Truss wrecked people’s mortgages and pension plans with an insane, uncosted budget that gave handouts to the wealthy, and was subsequently forced to resign, we initially thought she would fade quietly into the background to devote herself to sampling British cheeses or something. How wrong we were. Post-PM-Truss was fired up to prove […]

When Liz Truss wrecked people’s mortgages and pension plans with an insane, uncosted budget that gave handouts to the wealthy, and was subsequently forced to resign, we initially thought she would fade quietly into the background to devote herself to sampling British cheeses or something. How wrong we were. Post-PM-Truss was fired up to prove […]

21st-century minds were absolutely boggling, last year, at an extract from a 1972 book called How to Make Your Wife Your Mistress by marriage guidance expert, Lois F. Bird, who wrote many books on relationships – often with her husband as co-author. The first half of a section titled 101 ways a man can please […]