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After Rachel Reeves spent yesterday telling the nation her spending review was positioning the country for growth, the economy leapt out from behind a curtain to remind everyone this morning that “Oh no it isn’t!”
Some people have the type of mind that holds on to interesting facts, and others have brains like sieves and can barely recall the names of their immediate families. If you fall into the latter camp you’re in luck, because Reddit user Physical-Egg6682 has collected lots of fascinating facts all in one place after posing […]
Things were a lot quieter on the streets of downtown Los Angeles last night, although protests against ICE immigration raids are likely to continue outside of curfew hours. California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, remains clear on where to place a large part of the blame for the civil unrest. Donald Trump is behaving like a tyrant, […]
It’s been all change for Reform UK, recently, with Rupert Lowe out, Sarah Pochin in, and Pochin’s anti-Burqa stance driving out former chairman Zia Yusuf. BREAKING Zia Yusuf has resigned from his position as Reform UK Chairman. Earlier today he tweeted that new Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin was “dumb” for asking Keir Starmer to […]
Back in the 90s, even though it was only 10 years ago, the way young women wore their make up then was definitely different to the looks favoured now. The whole application process was also a bit of a law unto itself, but we made it work. Sort of. So pop ‘Now That’s What I […]
Here’s a rather fabulous discussion that went viral on Reddit after clueless-game asked this. ‘What is the most successful lie in history?’ And it prompted a whole bunch of answers which were by turn interesting, relatable and very funny (and just occasionally all three). Here are 17 enduring untruths that caught our eye. 1. “I […]
Older readers may want to brace themselves: 15 years ago was 2010, and a lot has changed since then. In the intervening years we’ve seen the rise of AI and several monumental shifts when it comes to geopolitics. But what about on the everyday scale? What was so drastically different back in 2010 that the […]
No-one nails British culture from an outsider’s perspective better than @yorkshirepeach over on TikTok. Lisa Dollan is an American, from Georgia, living in Yorkshire with her family and she went wildly viral in 2021 with her video of things that are common in the UK but just wouldn’t work in the US. @yorkshirepeach #americanintheuk ♬ […]
You’ve probably seen what happens when people try to get a snap of their pets using the panoramic function on their phones. It tends not to go well … Look at this photo of a cat taken in panorama I just saw on Facebook pic.twitter.com/vJ84ewNcJs — Sarah (@idlewildgirl) June 25, 2020 Exactly as though there […]
We’ve featured plenty of posts on these pages highlighting the cultural divide between the UK and the US (what do you mean, ‘what cultural divide?’) But not many of them have nailed it quite so succinctly – or entertainingly – as this guy does, in this video from TikToker @kjordyyy filmed in his local Target […]
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