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To PMQs – no, stick with us – where leader of the Liberal Democrats delighted not just the members of his own party by telling a properly funny joke. So good, in fact, that it surely qualifies as funny even if it had been told outside the hallowed walls of the House of Commons (so […] The post Someone stop the clocks! Ed Davey just told a properly funny joke at PMQs and it was a most welcome moment of light relief from everything else going on right now appeared first on The Poke.

To PMQs now, where Nigel Farage took time out from his busy schedule to make an appearance after missing all 77 of the last 77 votes in the House of Commons. And it was the shocking murder of Henry Nowak that Farage wanted to talk about in the wake of violent protests in Southampton on […] The post Keir Starmer’s A++ takedown of Nigel Farage’s deplorable response to Henry Nowak’s murder even had people who don’t like Starmer applauding appeared first on The Poke.

To the Trump administration now, in particular to Dr Mehmet Oz, Robert F Kennedy’s righthand man who’s got a theory about Affordable Health Care, AKA ‘Obamacare’ which was intruded in 2010 to reform the health insurance market and help increase insurance coverage for the uninsured. Oz, you won’t be surprised to learn, isn’t a fan, […] The post Turns out Trump’s administration doesn’t have a clue how insurance works and had the entire internet hollering into next week appeared first on The Poke.

Not new but definitely viral, this clip of Donald Trump berating a journalist for daring to ask a question he didn’t like has just gone back into orbit on Twitter. Because if anything nails the attitude of Trump and his administration’s attitude towards the media – and to the truth – it’s surely this. Nieprawdopodobne. […] The post Donald Trump’s response to a journalist whose question he didn’t like just went into orbit and if anything nails his attitude to the truth, it’s this appeared first on The Poke.

It’s normal to have a pet name for your significant other. Perhaps ‘babe’ or ‘boo’, or ‘snookipims’, if you’re a total sap. However, some people take it to an extreme and come up with such a niche nicknames that it’s hard to tell where ‘cute’ ends and ‘utterly batshit’ begins. They’ve been discussing this on […] The post Somebody asked about ‘really weird’ things people call their partners – 24 utterly bonkers, allegedly ‘affectionate’ nicknames appeared first on The Poke.

Few things in this life feel better than being proved right. Winning the lottery probably comes close, but you don’t get that warm, fuzzy glow of smugness. Rough-Foundation9208 was curious to hear about the things people were proven right about years down the line, so they invited r/AskUK users to share their stories. They even […] The post What is something you were smugly proven correct about years later? – 17 people who eventually got the last laugh appeared first on The Poke.

Over on Threads, Christian, political commentator and Tommy Robinson ally Jade Warwick has either been carrying out an epic troll or displaying her immense ignorance… possibly both. She added her hot take to the ongoing discourse over whether Christopher Nolan should have cast Lupita Nyong’o as the fictional Helen of Troy in his upcoming version […] The post This right-wing political commentator’s ‘biblically accurate Helen of Troy’ pic saw her dragged back to the ancient world – 15 epic owns appeared first on The Poke.

Ten years since the vote and we’re still talking Brexit. We make no apologies for that, obviously, although one person who appears strangely reluctant to mention the B word much these days is the man chiefly responsible, Nigel Farage. And we mention him because of this American economist’s take on the whole thing which has […] The post This American’s take on Brexit and the people responsible just went wildly viral and she says it so much better than so many Brits appeared first on The Poke.

If the White House spent even a tenth of the time on monitoring what the president is up to with his crypto buddies and foreign dictators that they do on posting memes on X, then the Freedom 250 concert might still have more than Vanilla Ice to offer, and more people might be able to […] The post The White House told people to shush, because ‘it will all work out well in the end’, but it didn’t work out well for them at all appeared first on The Poke.

Happy Pride month, everyone. Well, everyone except these people who tried to troll one particular Pride march and were so pleased with whatever the hell they were trying to do that they decided to video themselves while they did it. But it’s fair to say it didn’t go quite quite as they presumably expected. Surely […] The post These Americans’ attempt to troll a Pride march didn’t go quite as they presumably expected and we’ve never felt more proud appeared first on The Poke.