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JD Vance took time out from his busy schedule to pay a visit to Disneyland in California, the state which you’ll remember just a little while ago his boss sent the National Guard because of all the rabid lawlessness going on over there. Well it seems to have died down now, and his visit prompted […]

Like most people, may not have been paying too much attention to the football Club World Cup, which came to a climax on Sunday with Chelsea’s 3-0 win over. Parish Saint-German in the final at the MetLife stadium in New Jersey. The tournament comes a year before the US hosts the World Cup and given […]

Does uncritically believing the things people tell you make you wholesomely trusting or a credulous idiot? The answer depends on exactly what you are being told, as it’s usually fairly easy to separate fact from fiction. Or is it? Reddit user Horror_Vegetable_176 has found it laughably easy to convince people of ridiculous things, and posted […]

Comedian and actor Rosie O’Donnell has never been shy of saying what she thinks – and what she thinks about Donald Trump has never been complimentary. In a 2006 episode of The View, she really set out her reasons for having no respect for the man. Rosie O’Donnell on Donald Trump (2006): “He annoys me […]

The British summer is still in full swing and it’s a scorcher! When it comes to hot weather, us Brits are rather creatures of habit with the things we do and say. But just HOW British are you? How many of these did you do over the hot weekend? 1. Talked about the hot weather […]

After 175 days in office, Donald Trump has finally released the Epstein files, which was one of his key campaign promises. Just kidding – he’s actually spiralling and bouncing from position to position on the documents. Here’s the catch-up … “We’ll release the Epstein files.” “We might release some of the Epstein files but there’s […]

The row continues over who owns the collection of sculptures taken from the Acropolis in Athens and known as the Parthenon Marbles by Greece, but as the Elgin Marbles in the UK. Is it Greece – the country where they were created and were in place for over two thousand years – or is it […]

The 1981 film The Great Muppet Caper was stuffed to the gills with stars, some of whom also happened to be Muppets. John Cleese and the late great Peter Ustinov strutted their stuff with the fabric main cast members, but one scene featuring the much-missed actor Peter Falk – star of Columbo – crops up […]

There are common experiences that we imagine absolutely everyone has in life, like eating a sandwich or going to a New Year’s Eve party, but it turns out that some people have managed to navigate their way through existence without ever doing them. They’ve been discussing this interesting phenomenon on the AskUK subreddit after user […]

If you were a child in the ‘70s or ‘80s, there was no option to skip the intro when watching a TV programme. Chances are, though, that if these were some of the shows you were watching, you wouldn’t have wanted to skip the opening credits when the theme tunes slapped this hard. These are […]