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Thanks to technological innovations, our modern standard of living is far better than the one endured by our ancestors. At least, it is in most ways. That’s because certain ways of living have only gotten harder as society has progressed. To give you an insight into how life was surprisingly smoother a century ago, FishingVirtual513 […]

A man who took a wrong turn in life, back in 2023, took a temporarily right turn in his quest to escape from the police – and someone captured the moment. Man hid from police on roof after cannabis farm found in home Full report: https://t.co/O1DlSjMMTF pic.twitter.com/RY8j5MTAN2 — Liverpool Echo (@LivEchonews) March 28, 2023 One […]

Full disclosure – we hadn’t come across Gary Stevenson before but having watched him on Thursday night’s Question Time we’re going to be following him everywhere we can find him. He’s a former City trader turned YouTuber and analyst and activist – find Gary’s Economics on YouTube here – and his take on the country’s […]

School is a place for learning. Learning what? Doesn’t matter! Apparently, as long as you’re sitting at a desk, writing things down, and able to regurgitate those things at various intervals throughout the year, all is well. Netizen u/vn66 posed the following question to their counterparts in the Reddit space: What historical “fact” did you […]

As if JD Vance wasn’t already enough of a figure of fun all by himself (albeit an occasionally terrifying one), the White House has gone and joined in by doing this. Talk about gilding the lily (someone explain it to JD!) Just the Vice President of the United States sending some freedom seeds downrange. Doesn’t […]

When it comes to dating, most people have a type. The fabled one could be sporty or an adrenaline junky or be six foot five, have blue eyes and work in finance. But on the flip side, there are types of people that singletons have been with at least once and never want to encounter […]

Full disclosure – JD Vance has turned out to be a much more high profile vice president than we expected. Indeed, we haven’t spent so much time thinking about a VP since Dan Quayle (younger readers – we know you’re out there – look it up). And while much has been made this week about […]

The new prime minister of Canada Mark Carney has delivered a devastating rebuke to Donald Trump as the US president continues to pile on the tariffs and shows no sign of giving up on his ’51st state’ nonsense. Carney is of course the former governor of the Bank of England and took over from Justin […]

ITV’s celebrity skating competition Dancing on Ice is to come to at least a temporary end, 19 years after it first aired. The channel announced it would be ‘resting’ the show, which has struggled to attract viewers in recent years, with the last series seeing an all-time low of 2.4 million. Dancing On Ice taken […]