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American astrophysicist, author and science communicator, Neil deGrasse Tyson, has been explaining the mysteries of the universe to us in ways that even we can (just about) understand for many years now. He’s also pretty vocal against non-scientific thinking – all too happy to take on anti-vaxxers, climate-change deniers and (naturally), flat-earthers. Here’s a rather […]

The co-founder of the fundamentalist Christian group Turning Point UK, John Mappin, believes he has spotted a message from its other co-founder, Charlie Kirk. It may not be unconnected that the far-right commentator owns Camelot Castle Hotel, because there’s always a grift – but there were some pretty clear problems with his claim. Tweeters were […]

Right-wing American political pundit Tucker Carlson certainly doesn’t mind telling the occasional lie or spreading a conspiracy theory or two. He regularly promotes vaccine-sceptical propaganda and was sacked from his Fox News show for airing false claims about the 2020 US election. But his latest claim is a just a little bit more ‘out there’. […]

A listing for a house on the website of the estate agent Rightmove attracted the attention of people beyond those who may be looking for a nice house to buy in the Nottingham area of reasons that are about to become obvious. This alll came about after a chap called Ade posted the listing on […]

We’ve featured no end of outrageous (and occasionally outrageously funny) online reviews being given just the treatment they deserved, and this one is up there with the very best. It’s a pub’s response to this bigoted review by a ‘local guide’ who said it’s rainbow flag was ‘inappropriate’ and concluded it was ‘not a place […]

If an alien arrived from space and had a cursory glance at the lives and habits of Brits and Americans, they would at first think we are basically the same. However, the harder they looked, the more they’d see that as cultures, we are actually worlds apart. Over on the AskUK subreddit, user Squiggally-umf has […]

To the world now of Elon Musk, where the democracy botherer has been ratcheting up his attacks on – where else? – Twitter. Having suggested that some sort of civil war was now inevitable, he now compared the UK to the Shire in Lord of the Rings, and Brits as lovely little Hobbit people who […]

It’s fair to say we didn’t learn an awful lot of new stuff from Donald Trump’s 60 Minutes interview with Norah O’Donnell, although that didn’t mean there was no shortage of jaw-dropping moments. Like the time he was asked about the crypto billionaire money launderer he pardoned, only to reply that he had no idea […]

As no-one anywhere needs reminding, Prince Andrew is no more after the King’s brother was stripped of his titles over the former Duke of York’s relationship with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, becoming plain old Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. We mention it because Donald Trump – no stranger to Epstein himself, obviously, was asked about […]