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You know those cutesy couple-centred ads for stuff like supermarkets, food brands, and cars? Well, this isn’t one of those. No way they made this pic.twitter.com/zjQmcdoNFZ — Community Notes & Violations (@CNviolations) March 19, 2025 The tongue-in-cheek ad, written and directed for the 2015 Super Bowl by Dave Hill, was called ‘Road Trip’, and we […]

Fresh from his not entirely successful phone call with Vladimir Putin in a bid to end the war in Ukraine – the clock has been ticking for two months now on that ’24 hour’ promise, Trump has been talking about the really nasty people he has to deal with. Not Putin, obviously. Not China, no, […]

Time to go to the House of Commons for PMQs – no, stick with us – where among the MPs granted a question was Reform UK chief whip (chief whip!) Lee Anderson. Seriously, stick with us. Because it’s fair to say that Anderson’s question started badly – having said he asks sensible questions, he immediately […]

Although it served only to show that Vladimir Putin isn’t on the peace train, as Trump would have us believe, the phone call between the Russia and US leaders has been the talk of the internet. Utterly predictably, Putin rejects the unconditional ceasefire offered by Ukraine, sends Trump off on the errands of making the […]

When you’re young, the thought of getting older is an exciting prospect. You’ll have a house and a job and a family, sounds pretty great, right? Well, about that. While you may have more independence as an adult, that’s not without its pitfalls. And these drawbacks are likely not even on your radar as a […]

Like us, the chances are you don’t follow @Teslaconomics on Twitter but it’s an Elon Musk fan accounts which describes itself thus: ‘I post my conscious thoughts with the world, live life to the fullest, keep things simple, truthful & filter the noise.’ And we mention it because it leapt to the defence of the […]

If you’re familiar with the subreddit, Murdered By Words, you’ll have seen some entertainingly savage owns, often between opposing sides of major issues, like the value of vaccination, or the facts around climate change. It’s a little more rare to see people on the same side of the argument battling it out, but that’s what […]

It would be nice to think that as technology becomes more sophisticated, it also gets easier to use and more useful. Sadly, this isn’t always the case. Sometimes, the price of progress can be pointless hurdles. If this sounds familiar, then you’ll likely have plenty to say in response to this question set by BisonNo9004 […]

In amongst the joy of having children there is a lot of hard work and a fair amount of boredom, so who can blame parents for telling their kids little white comedy fibs to keep themselves entertained? Over on the AskUK subreddit, user AmbitionParty5444 asked this question: ‘What benign lies did your family tell you […]

Oh, how we miss Peep Show, the groundbreaking sitcom written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain and starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as ‘best of enemies’ Mark Corrigan and Jeremy Usbourne. Like many viewers, we were bereft when the show finally ended in 2025 after 12 years and 9 series. For those of us […]