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P ride Month is about to get started and you know what that means: the shops are full of rainbow flags and what the Conservative Political Action...
I nsurance company documents aren’t exactly renowned for being riveting reading. This week, however, State Farm, the largest insurance firm in the...
G oodbye humans, hello “Tessa”. The US-based National Eating Disorders Association (Neda) is making headlines after firing all its staff and...
Weird coincidence alert! Taylor Swift recently released a collaboration with rapper Ice Spice on a remix of her Midnights track Karma. That’s a big...
V ariety may be the spice of life, but have you tried a baked potato? In my opinion, a jacket potato with cheese and peas is the perfect meal. It’s...
Johnny Depp seems to be on top of the world. Almost one year after he won a messy defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, the actor’s...
T hey nearly died! They made the whole thing up! The royal family was trying to Diana them! They’re incorrigible attention-seekers who exaggerated...
H annah Gadsby, a feted, award-winning comedian, has curated an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, about Pablo Picasso’s complicated legacy,...
Y ou know what I love about living in the US? Freedom! You can choose between multiple overpriced insurance companies to provide you with healthcare,...
In a world where US birth rates were declining, one man decided to embark on a heroic journey to father as many children as he could. That man is...
M oney may be able to buy you happiness, but it can’t buy you brains. A study published in January found that billionaires aren’t any smarter...
M eet Liz Holmes. She is a devoted mother of two little kids who loves nothing more than family outings to the zoo, walking her dog, and talking to...
F or the last several months I have been a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. We moved to a new house last year only to find the place next...
Oh no, it’s happened again. Every now and again a famous woman over the age of 45 has the temerity to go out in public without following The Rules...
S omeone call Coleen Rooney! We’ve got a very British mystery that needs to be investigated. The scene of the crime: Chevening House, a...
H ello from Philadelphia where the excited natives are counting down the days until Charles III’s coronation. Anticipation fills the air and there...
Marianne Williamson, the self-help author who is making her second bid for the presidency, has a history of saying things that can be characterized as...
F or someone who is famous for being in Friends, Matthew Perry sure seems to have a knack for making enemies. In November, the actor who played...
E lon Musk is a man of many talents including, it would seem, resurrecting people from the dead. Over the weekend, a number of notable but...
You’ll be lonely. Nobody will look after you when you get old. You’ll miss out on life’s greatest joy. You won’t ever be truly fulfilled. Your...
N ever let it be said that I don’t have range. Earlier this year I brought you the latest hard-hitting news on cleavage trends (sideboobs are out,...
E very now and then I generously offer my opinion on why everyone’s favourite TV show or movie is actually pretty stupid and it doesn’t tend to...
Here’s a controversial opinion: when you’re no longer capable of doing your extremely important job you should gracefully step away from your...
Y ou’ve heard of racism and sexism, but there’s a horrifying new -ism we all need to be aware of: wealthism. The obscenely rich, you see, are an...
According to the Kansas State High School Activities Association, about 106,000 students participate in the organization’s sports and activities....
S o this is embarrassing to admit, but, when I was a tween, I was obsessed with Bush. THE BAND! THE BAND! I adored the lead singer, Gavin Rossdale,...
M y wife is wonderful in every way, but I realised over the weekend that she is simply not built for the apocalypse. On Sunday, I was scrolling...
Ah, the Renaissance. A period that saw the growth of intellectual reason, the flowering of art and culture, and a lot of very hardcore pornography....
D on’t ask me why, but I keep a list in my head of inane and avoidable ways I might meet an untimely end. When I lived in New York and used a...
T his time there aren’t any vaginas involved. I say that because half the time Gwyneth Paltrow is in the news it’s vagina-related. On this...
Meet Jonathan Mitchell. The former solicitor general of Texas is not a household name but you’ll be familiar with his work. He’s the architect of...
S ay what you like about Elon Musk, but he certainly keeps himself busy. Most people would have their hands full running Twitter into the ground,...
N ews just in: money does buy you happiness. Duh, you might say. Anyone could have told you that; it’s hardly a Nobel-prize winning insight. Well,...
Congratulations to Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert who is becoming a grandma at the tender age of 36. Speaking at a Conservative Political...
“I hate him passionately.” Thanks to new court filings in a $1.6bn defamation lawsuit against Fox News we now know exactly how the network’s...
L et’s play a quick round of a game I just invented called Is This Perverted and Misogynistic Or Is This Fine, Actually? The subject is an eatery...
I s America finally getting bored of Harry and Meghan? It’s starting to look that way. Only a few months ago the pair were media darlings in the...
In October 2021 a 33-year-old woman in Greenville, South Carolina, went to the hospital with labor pains. According to a police incident report, the...
‘D oing hard things requires sacrifice,” Esther Crawford tweeted in November when a picture of her sleeping on the floor at her office went...
O K, I’m calling tit: we’ve reached peak cleavage. Over the years I’ve selflessly and diligently kept abreast of ridiculous cleavage trends....
Sex, numerous studies show, is going out of fashion. Young people aren’t shagging much any more, a phenomenon that has been widely blamed on...
G acek is a fat black-and-white cat who lives in a wooden box on the side of the road and likes snacking on sausages. He’s also the top tourist...
A llow me to introduce you to one of the most annoying phrases in the modern English language: house hacking . What’s that when it’s at home?...
H ere’s a little thought experiment: imagine if an alien managed to avoid getting shot down by the Biden administration and landed its UFO safely...
Breaking news from CNN this week: women are officially past their prime in their 50s. Although, it’s possible that they age out of their prime in...
“L et’s eat only two meals a day.” Back in the 1990s, North Korea, which was suffering through a terrible famine, adopted a slogan which...
I have a handful of weird talents but – not to boast or anything – what I really excel at is procrastination. I’ve wasted a lot of my life...
T here are lies, there are damned lies, and then there is George Santos’s CV. In the short time that he has been in the public eye, the 34-year-old...
The Church of England is considering gender-neutral ways to refer to God, revealing a lot about how gendered language reinforces stereotypes
Last week, some rules for modern manners went viral, but they weren’t very applicable to those of us with mundane lives. Here is what you really...