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Just when Nigel Farage thought his year couldn’t get any worse, this happens. The Reform UK leader is facing renewed scrutiny after some of his team were filmed appearing to plot to avoid electoral laws on foreign donations in an undercover investigation broadcast by Channel 4 News. The year-long expose was carried out
No-one’s expecting the movies to actually reflect, you know, real life and all that, but sometimes there is a glaring factual error that simply takes the shine off the rest of the film and haves you huffing into your popcorn like a right misery. We say this after Redditor ToomintheEllimist unleashed the floodgates of c
Everything that was popular when we were younger, healthier, less cynical is the gold standard. Or so it seems. Music stars from our teens – the best ever. TV shows – they’ve never been matched since! Even the food and the weather was better. Alright, maybe not – but when @herberthistory asked Bluesky Gen-Xers what […]
We’re all looking to make savings during the cost of living crisis. Those ludicrously expensive Freddo bars won’t buy themselves. If you’re looking to make savings, you could do a lot worse than to head over to Reddit. Users like to discuss secret money-saving hacks, including TheAmenophis who put the following questio
It looks like Reform UK have had that fag packet out again, and the policy they’ve scribbled on it comes straight from the Trump/Musk playbook. Here’s ex-Tory Danny Kruger filling in the details for Talk TV’s Calum Macdonald. Planning a holiday over an election? Reform's Danny Kruger says you shouldn't be able to vote
‘What’s in a name?’ as Shakespeare’s Juliet famously wondered. Well, quite a lot, it seems, if the amount of famous people who change theirs is anything to go by. They’ve been discussing this on the AskReddit page after petalpoundcake posed this question… Which celebrity did you think was using their real name, only to
As civilians, as Liz Hurley memorably labelled non-famous people, we always imagine there’s a strict hierarchy when it comes to celebrity. You can’t imagine Madonna hanging out with Michael McIntyre, for example. But it turns out that the pecking order of fame isn’t as strict and straightforward as we might imagine. Ov
To the studios of LBC now, where James O’Brien has been doing what James O’Brien does best – well, one of the things anyway – owning Reform UK-ers. And this particular to and fro from Thursday’s show – even before the latest revelations had come to light – was a particularly magnificent example. It’s a […] The post Jam
If the solution is more teen pregnancies then it really does make you wonder what the problem is. Perhaps the problem is just this entire Fox News segment, lamenting that teenage girls – from 15 to 19 – just aren’t getting pregnant like they used to in the good old days. Fox News complains that […] The post Fox News ra
Here’s a rather fascinating thing from back in the day, a question posed by Populism Updates over on Twitter about things that you had no idea existed at the same time. What are the craziest two people/things to coexist at the same time in history? — Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) August 15, 2024 They added a […]
In a surprising turn of events, Nigel Farage has told Christopher Hope of GB News that he plans to spend less time in the House of Commons, as he’ll be conducting a tour of the UK. ‘Richard Tice and the gang doing more of the work in here as I travel around the country.’ Leader […] The post Nigel Farage told GB News he
JD Vance must be the most famous political Catholic convert of all time – largely because he’s wanged on about it so much, including in book form. JD Vance's upcoming book on his conversion to Catholicism uses a Methodist church on the cover. pic.twitter.com/JCMByIV2kk — FactPost (@factpostnews) April 1, 2026 The Vice
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