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Who remembers being a child, sitting down on a Saturday afternoon to watch a nice movie… and ending up with a lifelong psychological scar? Probably everybody, due to the fact that entertainment allegedly aimed at children can sometimes be a bit scarier than it should be. These wounds have been reopened on the AskUK subreddit […]

As the world now knows, the Trump-Musk bromance came to a messy end last week, with the men exchanging barbs via their social media accounts. After reflecting on some (although, apparently, not all) of the comments he had made, Elon Musk has now rowed back a little. His newly developed ability to self-reflect hasn’t exactly […]

We hadn’t come across John Rich before but apparently he is something of a country singing star – one half of Big and Rich! – and a Maga. A very big Maga. We mention him because he’s just gone on Twitter to thank the Lord that Kamala Harris isn’t president right now, presumably spurred to […]

As Los Angeles continues to be torn apart by a crisis entirely of Donald Trump’s own making, with the military on the streets and people afraid to leave their own home and indeed what flags they fly where they live. Specially , the Mexican one. Jesus Christ, who gives a shit if Mexican-Americans fly the […]

Another day, another Donald Trump fact check. Well, plenty more than one, obviously, but for now we’ll just focus on this one, the president’s rambling speech to troops in which he appeared to suggest – quite a lot more than appeared, to be fair – that America fought the Japanese in World War One. Like […]

The 5 Stages of Getting Old 1. Denial “My joints probably ache because my mattress is probably faulty.” “My eyesight isn’t getting worse, they must just be making words in books smaller.” “My hair isn’t going grey, my mirror must be defective.” “It must just be the angle that photo was taken that makes my […]

To the Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina where Donald Trump addressed the troops – and the nation – at an extraordinary time in America’s history. A crisis basically entirely of Trump’s own making, the president dispatched the National Guard to California against the wishes of its governor, Gavin Newsom, while suggesting Newsom should […]

A small area of Los Angeles has been placed under a curfew after another night of protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents taking people without due process. Arrests breing made at 5th and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles at 10pm after an 8pm curfew was enacted on day 5 of anti-ICE protests. California […]