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Protest songs have a long and noble tradition for calling out injustice and providing rallying calls for all manner of worthy causes. The art form has produced some absolutely brilliant tunes on the way, such as Blowin’ in the Wind, Fight the Power, Born in the USA, What’s Going On and many, many more. There […] The post An anti-woke busker sang about wishing he could emigrate to Poland to get away from immigrants, and Alanis Morissette’s ears must be burning appeared first on The Poke.

Reform UK’s Lee Anderson hasn’t exactly clothed himself in glory, either before or after his defection to Nigel Farage’s party. He’s known as 30p Lee due to his insistence that a poor person can live on 30p a day if they plan and cook properly – and he later extended this to insist that nurses […] The post There’s never a bad time to revisit James O’Brien’s all-time great apology for calling Lee Anderson ‘thick as mince’ appeared first on The Poke.

Spare a thought – only kidding! – for former Conservative Party deputy chair turned Reform UK-er Lee Anderson after Nigel Farage’s announcement today of his pretend ‘shadow cabinet’. We say pretend because only the leader of the opposition can have a shadow cabinet and Farage is still very far off that (at least, outside of […] The post Nigel Farage just announced his pretend ‘shadow cabinet’ and the joke is very much on Lee Anderson appeared first on The Poke.

There’s nothing worse than when a really important delivery fails to turn up. Actually, scratch that, there is something worse than a really important delivery fails to turn up. It’s when you try to get in touch with the delivery company and you end up interacting with an AI chatbot that is absolutely no use […] The post A parcel firm’s AI chatbot failed to deliver so someone decided to have a bit of fun and it was simply first class appeared first on The Poke.

You may already be familiar with the work of Derek Guy, a menswear writer, critic and prolific Tweeter (read all about him in the Guardian here). And we mention him not only because he’s a good follow but because of this fabulous story that he shared a little while back after someone asked him about […] The post The A++ payoff to this tale of a guy who tucked his woolly jumper into his trousers is an evergreen treat appeared first on The Poke.

Donald Trump is fed up with talking about the Epstein Files unless, of course, he is telling everyone how basically he’s been exonerated them and has absolutely nothing to hide. Nada. Zero. Zilch! Here he is on Air Force One playing the unusual quadruple headed role of suspect, prosecutor, judge and jury! Trump: I have […] The post Donald Trump said he’d been ‘totally exonerated’ on Epstein and reality had a question or two for the American president appeared first on The Poke.

According to the old saying, life begins at 40. But can young people truly understand what that really means? To find out, Reddit user Root435552 decided to ask people further down the track of life about what lies in store. And they did so by posing the following question: ‘Redditors over 40, what’s something younger […] The post People over 40 have been sharing the things that young people think they understand but totally don’t – 17 life lessons that sneak up on us all appeared first on The Poke.

A salutary reminder, now, to always double check – nay, triple check! – before hitting send on social media. It was a most unfortunate picture error on Facebook highlighted by @kittypurrzog over on Twitter. And while there’s every chance it’s a joke, obviously, it still made us smile. A lot. Ooof. Never delete. — Dissproportionately […] The post This hilariously inappropriate Facebook mistake is an evergreen snafu for the ages and will always hit the right note appeared first on The Poke.

A bit of a throwback now to the sort of thing that Twitter was primarily good for – a bit of fun. And this is just the six seconds we needed today, the ‘best delivery of any line in cinema history’ that just went wildly viral after it was posted by @Madz_Grant (who you can […] The post The ‘best delivery of any line in cinema’ just went wildly viral and you’ll get no argument from us appeared first on The Poke.

It’s been a year or so since Donald Trump returned to the White House and it’s fair to say it’s not done quite as well as many Magas had hoped. And for everyone else it’s gone even worse than we had feared it would. Not in the mind of Donald Trump, though, who just confidently […] The post Donald Trump claimed that Americans had never had it so good – ever – and it was a chinny reckon visible from the moon appeared first on The Poke.