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‘Delivery drivers, what is the wildest thing you’ve ever seen on a delivery?’ – 21 shocking doorstep encounters
18 May 2026 @ 10:59 am
If you’ve ever opened the door to a Tesco delivery driver wearing your pyjamas you probably feel like they’re judging you as a slovenly so-and-so who is too lazy to go to the shops. However, there are people out there who are doing things much stranger than still wearing a pair of bunny slippers and […]
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Lee Anderson’s attempt to paint Reform as the workers’ party was only made fractionally more ridiculous by him doing it with his fly open
18 May 2026 @ 10:39 am
We cross now to Fantasy Island, where rather than an exquisitely dressed Ricardo Montalban waiting for the plane to land, we find 30p Lee Anderson, the former Tory MP, former Labour councillor and former miner. He was demonstrating considerably less care about his state of dress. If, like us, you’re loathe to focus too closely […]
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A woman was ejected from the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally for not looking right wing enough and if anything captures the Tommy Robinson supporter mindset, it’s surely this
18 May 2026 @ 9:47 am
To the far-right protests in central London on Saturday, where it wasn’t just the good people of Led By Donkeys who were infuriating Tommy Robinson’s supporters with their A++ rebuttal. No, it was also this woman who appeared to be forcibly ejected from the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally because she didn’t look right wing enough. […]
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The US Attorney General said there may never be a definitive answer as to whether the 2020 election was stolen, and the internet yelled one right at him
18 May 2026 @ 9:24 am
When Pam Bondi got the boot in April, Trump appointed his former defence lawyer Todd Blanche to the position of (Acting) Attorney General. There’s no doubting his loyalty to the Felon in Chief, at least until Trump turns on him. Acting AG Todd Blanche: "I love working for President Trump. It's the greatest honor of […]
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Of all the nonsense that was spewed at Tommy Robinson’s far-right rally, this ‘banner’ took the absolute biscuit
18 May 2026 @ 8:37 am
To Tommy Robinson wannabe Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s far-right protest in London at the weekend, where there was no end of nonsense being spewed (not least this made-up Little Tommy stat). But this one was surely hard to beat, a ‘banner’ that just went wildly viral for reasons that will become obvious (readers of a sensitive or […]
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Tommy Robinson said 66% of murders in the US were by illegal immigrants and he was fact checked ’til he farted
18 May 2026 @ 8:10 am
Tommy Robinson wannabe Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was doing what he does best at the far right rally in central London at the weekend. He was making stuff up. And in a crowded field nowhere was this more evident than when Robinson confidently declared that 66% of murders in the US last year were committed by immigrants […]
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You don’t need to be a Liverpool or Celtic supporter to hate this Unite the Kingdom performance of You’ll Never Walk Alone – you just need working ears
18 May 2026 @ 7:30 am
If you’ve ever heard the fans at Anfield or Celtic Park raise what little roof there is with their spirited renditions of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel anthem You’ll Never Walk Alone, you’ll know how stirring it can be. The most famous cover of the song is the Gerry & the Pacemakers hit single, released in […]
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Ant Middleton made a prediction about London life when he’s the mayor, and got owned to Dubai and back – 15 scathing responses
18 May 2026 @ 5:38 am
Ant Middleton made his name as the former special forces soldier at the helm of SAS: Who Dares Wins, but the Dubai resident has loftier ambitions these days… he wants to become the Mayor of London. He was back in the spotlight at the weekend, when a Reform UK fan celebrated the Unite the Kingdom […]
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Right-wingers got thoroughly dragged for falling for an AI pic ‘of Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom crowd’, when the real thing was far smaller- 27 top takedowns
18 May 2026 @ 4:36 am
Tommy Robinson’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march took place in London on Saturday, attracting a crowd of around 60,000, according to the Metropolitan Police, who carried out a £4.5 million operation to keep the march and counter-protest under control. That’s about 90,000 fewer than turned up for the 2025 march. Tommy Robinson and his supporters had […]
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Nigel Farage said he’d ban “foreign flags” flying above UK public buildings if Reform UK get into power – 14 savage responses to make you proud to be British
17 May 2026 @ 9:53 am
Now that the dust is starting to settle on this year’s local election results, we’re starting to see what Reform UK’s policies might be if they continue to gain power in the UK. This weekend, Nigel Farage gave one glimpse of the party’s policies – on flags. It started when Tory MP, James Cleverly, tweeted […]
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