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Actor and comedian Diane Morgan was awarded an honorary doctorate of Arts by the university of her home town, Bolton, back in 2023. Naturally, her acceptance speech was more like a comedy performance than the usual dry rhetoric at these affairs – and, of course, she couldn’t resist a little dig at the PM of […]

Donald Trump’s 24-hour TV news mouthpiece Fox News was naturally super-excited to announce the president’s great jobs news because everything Trump touches turns to gold, right? Except the economy didn’t quite perform as Trump – or Fox – hoped it would (tariffs, anyone?) and watching this sink in on live TV is a supremely satisfying […]

Actor and Wrexham AFC co-owner Rob McElhenney may have become a household name due to his role in the brilliant It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but household or not – people get his name wrong all the time. Whether it’s because they can’t spell it or can’t say it, Rob has had to correct people […]

Just when Labour’s Welfare Bill fiasco couldn’t possibly get any worse, all attention focussed on chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves’ upset in the House of Commons during PMQs. Downing Street said it was a ‘personal matter’ for Reeves and – politics aside – anyone with an ounce of empathy will surely wish her well, […]

A parody about getting older, based on the ‘That’s not my’ series of books. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Image Pexels The post That’s not my body part… A parody about getting older, based on the ‘That’s not my’ series appeared first on The Poke.

The job of the Leader of the Opposition is to oppose the Government. We get that. However, as the current holder of the position, we’re baffled that Kemi Badenoch does her opposing in the form of carefully scripted self-owns, like this comment she made in the Commons on Wednesday. Kemi Badenoch: “It beggars belief that […]

Maga Mike Johnson was obviously born without a sense of shame, or the ability to know when to keep his mouth shut. After all, the now Speaker of the House of Representatives is the man who thought he should tell the world that he and his son keep each other pure for Jesus by monitoring […]

It’s Wimbledon time again, so we’ve rallied around to serve you 12 ace facts about the UK’s largest annual tennis tournament.  1. Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, the first taking place in 1887. 2. During the Championships, the grass on the Wimbledon tennis courts is maintained at a height of 8mm […]

Overfamiliarity with anything tends to deaden our appreciation of it, from small things like TV shows that we’ve watched too many times, to big things like marriages. But what about things that we forget to value because we’ve grown up with them? Over on the AskUK subreddit, user sergeantjake asked: Those not originally from the […]