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There’s nothing more cringe-inducing than politicians jumping on a social media bandwagon. Let’s face it – not one of us wants to see Keir Starmer using a TikTok filter, and if Oliver Dowden sneaks up behind Kemi Badenoch doing the Fresh Prince Anxiety dance, we’re going to have to deactivate. Hot on the heels of […]

So Donald Trump’s much-heralded ‘Liberation Day’ turned out to be the starting gun for the president’s ‘great tariffs flip flop’. Having taken the global economy to the brink of a devastating trade war – and it’s not over yet by any imagination – he pulled a rapid reverse ferret that took us back to where […]

It was the week of the Great Donald Trump Tariff Flip Flop, when the US president marched his tariffs to the top of the hill only to march them straight back down again. The only consequence, it appears, is that people with not much money have less of it, and people with unimiginable amounts of […]

If you’ve been on social media in the past week, you can’t have failed to notice the phenomenon of the AI action figure. This is what we mean – NEW: Hasbro has just released the Pete Hegseth Action Figure: pic.twitter.com/NoWdPZy9A1 — Roshan Rinaldi (@Roshan_Rinaldi) April 9, 2025 Ever wondered what Peep Show characters would look […]

Times are hard for the Trump Fan Club. Their boy has lost numerous legal challenges to his policies, crashed the stock market, come under investigation for insider trading, and made a very public and humiliating u-turn on his flagship tariffs policy. The Maga faithful have been coping wth that last item by falling back on […]

It all began when @PeopleOfUK asked this over on Twitter. What’s your favourite piece of graffiti? I don’t know if mine still exists, but there used to be one saying “Lubię rosół”. Which translates as “I like chicken noodle soup”. How could you not? — Hannah in Devon (@PeopleOfUK) April 16, 2023 And it became […]

The always followable @NoContextBrits shared this scammer takedown on Twitter which scores highly on all fronts, in particular the NSFW bit. 10/10, no notes! And if it’s put you in the mood for this sort of thing here are 23 times people did something similar. Like this. And this. And finally, this! Follow @NoContextBrits on […]

There’s a corner of Reddit called ‘unexpected’ which – full disclosure – is full of posts which doesn’t always live up to the soubriquet. Except this one, well this one fully earns the accolade, just an extraordinary lucky exscape which means you’ll never look at a tumble dryer in quite the same way again. Watch […]

Finally a message has emerged from the White House that we can all thoroughly approve, 100%. In a week in which he declared out a global trade war only to almost immediately wave the white flag of sorts, Trump’s second term has managed to plunge unimaginable new depths in double quick time. But there was […]