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Disappointing news – if you’re Donald Trump – that the Nobel Peace Prize went to Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado. Hurrah! A conservative often described as Venezuela’s Iron Lady, the Venezuelan opposition politician won the prize for her dogged struggle to rescue the South American country from its fate as “a brutal, authoritarian state”. […]

Advice is the easiest thing to give and the hardest thing to receive. Never is that more true than when it’s bad advice. It’s also funny as hell. Redditor u/HumbleMajor2123 took to the internet to find out what happens when good people get bad advice. ‘What’s the most useless ‘life hack’ you’ve ever seen someone […]

The more he talks, the more he proves that he is unwell – mentally, physically, emotionally, you name it. And yet, despite all evidence to the contrary, Donald Trump wants you to know that he’s still got all his marbles. That’s right, according to the man who hasn’t completed a full sentence since he moved […]

To BBC1’s Question Time – no, stick with us, – where the guests included Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s head of policy (what does he do with the other 39 hours of his working week?) Anyway, we mention him because of this particular contribution from a man in the audience targeting Reform UK and its relentless […]

Donald Trump gets a lot of news coverage for his outrageous behavior. (Present company included.) It’s pretty exhausting. At least we can all catch a break from the insanity during the commercials. Until now. The latest White House grift comes in the form of watches. The leader of the free world is not content with […]

We’ve all surely had friends, colleagues and family who have been radicalised by Facebook. One minute they’re sharing holiday snaps and posting pics of cupcakes and kittens, and then, after being served up increasingly far-right rhetoric by Facebook’s algorithms, they’re saying that ‘actually, Nigel Farage has a lot of sensible ideas’ and sharing AI photos […]

Oftentimes complaints are made because a product or service is falling short of expectations. But that isn’t always the case. Sometimes there’s an issue because someone has gone above and beyond in a way that wasn’t called for. And while it can sound spoilt to get annoyed by these instances, it’s not always unreasonable. Forrestgumpisntreal […]

If you’ve been paying attention to, well, anything, it’s all too easy to feel like the world is falling apart. But realistically speaking, what are the threats that loom large on the horizon? It’s a question that’s clearly weighing on the mind of Thick_Caterpillar379, as they turned to r/AskReddit and asked: ‘What’s a ticking time […]

Mahan Lankarani – @mahanlankarani – is probably best known on TikTok for his trivia quizzes, which have pulled in a very impressive one and a half million followers. As he says in his bio ‘Learn everything the fun way’, and we can confirm that it’s possible to go down quite a rabbit hole once you […]