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Tony Blair has been appointed to Gaza’s ‘Board of Peace’ by Trump, and the irony meter just exploded into a million pieces
17 January 2026 @ 10:44 am
Sir Tony Blair, former British prime minister and co-architect of the Iraq War that has killed hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern people, has been named to Gaza’s new “Board of Peace”. Donald Trump created what he called the “Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place” to oversee reconstruction and […]
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Nigel Farage was tricked into filming a Cameo video tribute to paedophile singer Ian Watkins, and said ‘thanks for the money’ when he found out
17 January 2026 @ 9:59 am
Nigel Farage makes no secret of the fact that he’s for sale on Cameo should you want him to record a personalised message for you or someone else. And all for the cost of between £78 to £100. Cut to this week when Farage filmed this Cameo – but it turns out it was a […]
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Donald Trump and a notorious Nazi propagandist are the only ones to accept a second-hand Nobel Prize, and the rest is history
17 January 2026 @ 9:01 am
Donald Trump likes to think he’s up there with some of the most famous names in world history. It’s one of the many, deeply insecure and narcissistic reasons he’s so obsessed with winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, with yesterday’s extraordinary spectacle of Venezuelan Nobel Peace laureate, María Corina Machado, giving Trump her Nobel medal, […]
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The White House ‘press conference’ just hit a new low with the entrance, stage right, of Riley Gaines (and her baby) – 13 totally on-point responses
16 January 2026 @ 4:26 pm
Such is the state of White House press conferences these days that we’ve long been harking back to the relatively halcyon days (not really) of Sean Spicer during Donald Trump’s first term in charge. Remember him? Cut back to the present days, where at the same press conference where Karoline Leavitt verbally attacked a reporter […]
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These people shared the worst way to find out you’re being cheated on and being single sounds pretty nice right about now
16 January 2026 @ 3:28 pm
Love hurts. Especially when the person you love decides to love someone else instead. The ultimate shot to the heart is a cheating partner. There’s no good to way find out you’ve been betrayed, but there are levels to this pain. Redditor u/hackerfilth recently put out this spicy question: People who found out their partner […]
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This Minneapolis man’s rant about the state of Trump’s America right now went wildly viral because he totally and utterly nails it
16 January 2026 @ 3:12 pm
If you really want to know what it’s like being in America right now, then just go ask the man in the street. Specifically, ask this man who was so outraged by what he saw going on in Minnesota that he left his ‘cushy home’ to take to the streets to something – anything! – […]
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Karoline Leavitt said Trump was ‘simply joking’ when he said America didn’t need elections – 15 essential responses that took it very seriously indeed
16 January 2026 @ 2:41 pm
Donald Trump says what he feels and he feels truly awful, illegal, and immoral things. Case in point: Trump’s thoughts on elections. We shouldn’t have ’em! The President made this statement on the record this week. Here is the exact quote. Trump to Reuters about the midterm elections: “When you think of it, we shouldn’t […]
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Karoline Leavitt castigated protesters for using their middle fingers and world supplies of irony just hit critical lows – 17 one-finger responses
16 January 2026 @ 2:00 pm
We can all agree that now more than ever we need to start treating each other with a little more class and respect. As long as it’s earned. Which brings us to Minneapolis, where local residents are rightfully upset with ICE for killing a mum who was coming back from the school run in broad […]
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An ITV reporter wouldn’t let Reform UK’s new Scottish leader ignore the question and its response didn’t just speak volumes, it bellowed them
16 January 2026 @ 1:37 pm
An insight into the way Reform UK conducts its business and it really is a proper eye-opener. Politicians not wanting to answer a question is one thing, but the way Nigel Farage’s operation tried to handle it when new Scottish leader Malcolm Awful, sorry, Offord didn’t like ITV reporter Peter Smith’s question is quite another. […]
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Trump’s attorney general Pam Bondi bragged to Fox News about firing six Minnesota prosecutors but it wasn’t the slam dunk she thought it was
16 January 2026 @ 11:31 am
Pam Bondi, giving off the energy of a jilted lover, went on TV to rant and rave about how she fired six prosecutors in Minneapolis because they wouldn’t defend Jonathan Ross (not that one), the ICE agent who shot mum Renee Good behind the wheel of her car after she dropped off her son at […]
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