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There are some things in life we learn because we are explicitly taught, such as how to do long division or ride a bike, but there are other things that we are expected to pick up through osmosis and, it turns out, we often don’t. And the strange things we end up thinking as adults […]
We can add another item to the list. Donald Trump has proven time and again since he got back into the White House that he has no idea what basic necessities cost or how hard it is to obtain them right now. His latest stumble out of touch with the common American: the price of […]
An American called Noah Smith went viral after he posted in detail – lots of detail – about his rubbish experience at Heathrow Airport. Specifically, the nightmare route he took trying to travel from Dublin to Paris via the London airport. But he didn’t just take issue with the airport, he used the incident to […]
After UK unemployment rate rose to 5%, figures have shown that the amount of time that the government spends blaming everyone but themselves has also seen a sharp increase.
If you thought the people who bought those ape NFTs were depriving a few villages of an idiot, wait until you hear about cryptobro Justin Sun. He has hit the headlines in 2024 by spending $6.2 million on a banana duct-taped to a wall. As you do. I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve bought the […]
Unless you’re rich enough to have a private chef or lazy enough to live entirely from microwave meals, you’ll have to do at least a minimal amount of cooking at home. But are you making it harder for yourself than it needs to be? Over on the AskReddit page, user Mrkayne posed this very useful […]
Full disclosure – we weren’t overly familiar with the works of author Joyce Carol Oates until this week, and now we can’t stop thinking about her. It was @JoyceCarolOates who went wildly viral with her takedown of Elon Musk, which clearly relied the wannabe Tesla trillionaire so much that he couldn’t stop trolling her back. […]
Unless you’ve been in a cave recently – and who amongst us hadn’t at least considered it over the past ten years? – you’ll be well aware that the BBC is facing something of an existential crisis. After the revelation that Panorama had edited a clip of Donald Trump with the suggested result that people […]
New Netflix drama Death by Lightning is by all accounts very good indeed. Matthew Macfadyen stars as Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated American president James Garfield (Michael Shannon), in 1881. We mention it not just because Netflix promised us a year’s free subscription if we did (they didn’t) but because it caught the attention […]
Jonathan Dimbleby knows a bit about broadcasting and specifically impartiality in broadcasting during a stellar TV and radio career. Brother of David and son of the late, great Richard Dimbleby, we mention him after he launched an impassioned defence of the BBC in the face of Trump’s £1bn libel threat, and this particular 60 seconds […]
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