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Anyone employed within the Trump administration knows their way around a gaslighting press appearance. Deny, deny, deny. Lie, lie, lie. Raise voice. Rinse, lather, repeat. Border czar, Tom Homan, was executing the playbook nearly perfectly on MSNBC until host Mika Brzezinski put on the press. After Homan’s first non-answer, Brzezinski kept pushing and asking for […]

Common sense is defined by the dictionary as ‘the basic level of practical knowledge and judgment that we all need to help us live in a reasonable and safe way’. People – usually those older or more powerful than us – love to bandy the phrase around and suggest that their way of doing things […]

That one guy you always mute in the group chat, ‘Secretary of War,’ Pete Hegseth, can’t stop shooting his mouth off about blowing up boats. But don’t worry, it’s okay, because he’s getting lots of thank you letters from other countries around the world. You just can’t see them because they’re private. The Trump administration, […]

The Fairland Holiness Church in Arkansas takes the Bible quite literally. At least, it takes its interpretation of the Bible quite literally. Some clips of its members discussing the creeping corruption of its female cohort by the evil that is leggings were bouncing around the internet in 2024. It landed on Twitter/X, courtesy (appropriately enough) […]

There’s nothing the internet loves more than predicting the things that will make future us cringe. On a recent Reddit thread, u/Wonderful-Economy762 asked: ‘What’s a modern trend you think people will regret?’ You might want to peek at the responses through your fingers, because it’s not pretty. There are so many things here that we […]

You may remember Republican Senator John Kennedy from his last appearance here warning his colleagues about radioactive shrimp. Simpler times. Senator Kennedy’s latest verbal diarrhea came at the expense of one of his chief rivals, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And he didn’t necessarily stick to the issues. Kennedy: I don’t hate anyone but Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez is a […]

While a hefty portion of the UK media were still tiptoeing around the facts about Brexit – both before and after the vote – LBC’s James O’Brien was sharing harsh facts, and laying the blame for the spread of misinformation at the feet of its main architects – particularly Nigel Farage. The fact that they […]

Time now to return to the nation’s new-found fondness for flying the flag, hoisting Union Jacks up street lamps and painting St George’s crosses on mini roundabouts, basically draping themselves in as much bunting as they can lay their hands on. It’s people of a certain political persuasion who are doing this, of course, and […]

Here’s a rather lovely thing from back in the day, a wonderful insight into the joys (and otherwise – very much otherwise) of working in a shop that all began when @fairycakes shared their memories of working in HMV. 11 years ago I worked in a HMV store and it still remains one of the […]

We’re grateful to the good people of BoredPanda for highlighting this fabulous subReddit called ‘Bone Apple Tea’ which collects top-notch examples of people using an incorrect word that is very, very close to being right. But not quite. Which, of course, makes their mistake all the funnier. Here are 19 of the best. 1. 2. […]