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We’ve been taking a stroll through the jaw-dropper hall of fame – what do you mean you haven’t visited yet? – and this was the first exhibit we came across. It’s an eye-opening exchange from back in the day which, as we said at the time, isn’t exactly overburdened with context, a gym due whose […]

The Democratic senator for New Jersey, Cory Booker, has broken a 68-year-old record for the longest filibuster in the US Senate, overtaking the 24 hours and 18 minutes that racist Strom Thurmond spent talking in a 1957 attempt to prevent the Civil Rights Act. In a powerful moment of history, African American Senator Cory Booker […]

To America now, where Elon Musk spent big – very big – in his bid to get the conservative-backed candidate Brad Schimel elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. So much so that Musk and the groups he backs spent a reported $21m in a bid to defat opponent, Judge Susan Crawford, personally travelling to Wisconsin […]

We’ve written plenty of posts on these pages about the transantlantic cultural divides that divides our great nation (well, one great nation and America). But it was surely never deeper than when an American called Collin Rutherford (don’t forget the double L) said this. Rutherford is an American entrepreneurial type who went on Twitter to […]

It’s tariffs week over at the White House when Donald Trump will be flinging import taxes on anything and everything he can think of on what the White House are calling ‘liberation day’. Although, to be fair, it’s pretty much been tariffs week ever since the start of the US president’s second term. And while […]

A visit to Europe seems to be a massive culture shock for many Americans – certainly the ones with social media accounts, at any rate. Here’s American tourist pertinence_ failing to understand what taps are for. @pertinence_ Get me back to the us of a this instant ♬ original sound – PERTINENCE Although the alleged […]

There’s been no end of discussion about devastating Netflix series Adolescence which will surely end up the most talked-about show of this year (and for quite a few years). But there was one rather less serious talking point that may have passed you by, and that’s the vehicle driven by Stephen Graham’s self-employed plumber, Eddie. […]