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On your marks, get set, dope! Welcome to the Enhanced Games – the sporting event no one wants

How encouraging to learn of another shot in the arm for the Enhanced Games. If you’re not familiar with it, this is the sporting event scheduled for...

12.04.2024 10

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Can you smell what The Rock is cooking? Could it be the most surreal presidential bid yet?

Where do you stand on The Rock? A question to which the answer can only be, “Please – not on his face!” Wrestler, movie star, high-intensity...

09.04.2024 10

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An MP who gives out colleagues’ numbers to blackmailers. Isn’t William Wragg just right for this Tory party?

Where to start with Westminster’s latest scandal, which – without wishing to speculate on spoilers – I suggest you formally label as...

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Look at the Thames and know the time for metaphors is over: our politics is drowning in effluent

Fire up a Chariots of Fire-style theme tune for the speech of the defeated Oxford captain in last Saturday’s Boat Race, beamed edifyingly around the...

02.04.2024 8

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Martin Rowson on a bad egg for Rishi Sunak this Easter – cartoon

31.03.2024 30

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California, here he comes! Think of Sunak’s honours list as an open job application

I wouldn’t say I’m a Conservative confidence-vote prepper, but like many in the political survivalist community I do prefer to keep track of the...

29.03.2024 80

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If Tories who want to run the capital think London is in New York, shouldn’t we be worried?

So sad to see the Conservative party talking down Britain in its new attack ad for the London mayoral elections, which – among other deliberate and...

26.03.2024 50

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Congratulations, Rupert Murdoch! Let’s hope this love match lasts longer than TalkTV

At last, some happy news. Rupert Murdoch is engaged – and for the second time in less than a year. I know! Despite being 93 next Monday, he’s...

08.03.2024 30

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It’s the Christian Horner paradox: F1 is now hideously dull, but the drama has never been better

Episode two of the new season of Drive to Survive begins with an at-home scene of Father Christmas visiting Red Bull team principal Christian...

05.03.2024 40

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The royals bring on their B team, captained by Prince Andrew. No wonder some fans think it’s all over

Say what you will about King Charles’s previously fanfared vision for a “slimmed-down monarchy”, its injury woes suggest it could do with buying...

01.03.2024 6

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Look at the political hellscape of Sunak, Anderson, even Starmer and ask: are they making my life any better?

Four weeks ago, Rishi Sunak was hoping he could find a way to return Lee Anderson to his job as the deputy chair of the Conservative party after...

27.02.2024 40

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Tears, shouting, procedural tantrums: just your standard day in the Commons, until democracy took a sinister turn

For reasons I won’t trouble you with, I missed the events of Wednesday afternoon and evening in the House of Commons. Normally, that would be a...

23.02.2024 10

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From Tucker Carlson to Johnny Depp, a celebrity bromance is the must-have accessory for the modern dictator

Behold, the current must-have accessory for all the most grimly murderous dictators – a pet American idiot. Not just any American idiot, obviously....

20.02.2024 10

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Two Labour wins, a Reform party surge and a dip into Rishession: never doubt Sunak’s strategy is going to plan

Confusing news from the byelections in Wellingborough and Kingswood, given that Downing Street has spent recent weeks explaining Britain is...

16.02.2024 20

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Conspiracists, chancers and a sexter – Rochdale deserves better, and frankly we all do

Full hazmat kit, please, for the Rochdale byelection, where the chaos and cast of grotesque characters says so much about the state of British...

13.02.2024 7

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Trump is too old and incited a coup. Biden is too old and mixes up names. America, how to choose?

To the US, where one likely candidate for the presidency delivers hour-long rambling speeches in which he explains that he’s going to be a dictator,...

09.02.2024 40

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Listen up! It’s Liz Truss and the PopCons, the Tory tribute act sounding a death knell for irony

Roll up, roll up – roll up a fat one for the launch of the Popular Conservatives, apparently a new vehicle for “the Trussite wing of the party”....

06.02.2024 4

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Martin Rowson on Labour’s business conference and a binned green investment plan – cartoon

03.02.2024 40

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When Mark Zuckerberg can face US senators and claim the moral high ground, we’re through the looking glass

Did you catch a clip of the tech CEOs in Washington this week? The Senate judiciary committee had summoned five CEOs to a hearing titled Big Tech and...

02.02.2024 3

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Laurence Fox has lost his ‘good name’: what now for the sad clown of the culture wars circus?

Did some randos calling him a “racist” on the platform formerly known as Twitter cost Laurence Fox his acting career? No, suggests a judgment from...

30.01.2024 10

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Stop badgering the Tories to run the country. They’re plotting and putsching, and really don’t have the time

Keeping track of Conservative party plotters is becoming like keeping track of Hollywood abusers during the #MeToo peak. Having notched up three prime...

26.01.2024 6

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Hooray for Barbie and Oppenheimer. And the Oscar for truly denying reality goes to … Hollywood!

“I call it the ‘holy slap’ now,” purred Jada Pinkett Smith of her husband’s decision to lamp Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars two years...

23.01.2024 3

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It’s the latest episode of The Tories – and it makes Squid Game look like the Brownies

Another week of rock-bottom moments for the drama-addicted Conservative party, who continue to insist to concerned friends and enemies alike that...

19.01.2024 3

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The Guardian view on local nostalgia: a potential community asset

In one of his most recent works, the renowned Italian anthropologist Vito Teti argues that the social value of nostalgia has been underrated and...

14.01.2024 10

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Martin Rowson on Rishi Sunak and the US-UK strikes in Yemen – cartoon

12.01.2024 3

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Who would you rather see in the Lords, Post Office scandal hero Alan Bates or Michelle Mone?

According to Downing Street, the prime minister is now backing a knighthood for Alan Bates. Bates’s 20-year campaign for justice for post office...

12.01.2024 3

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We have seen heroes emerge from the Post Office scandal. Now focus on the villains

A week since ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office aired, and can you hear that sound? Can you feel the gathering thunder of politicians’ hooves, as...

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So, what is it about the brilliant, victorious sportswoman Mary Earps that bovine men just can’t abide?

UN election monitors to the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ballot, please, as a load of guys simply cannot accept that England goalkeeper Mary...

22.12.2023 50

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A PPE farrago, a car crash interview and a fight with the PM: Lady Mone has her foot on the gas, hasn’t she?

Draw near, readers, for these are testing times for bouncy-blow-dried plague profiteer Michelle Mone and her husband/support garment Doug Barrowman....

19.12.2023 5

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It’s the Rishi Sunak twilight zone: a Brexit battle reenactment that never ends

Can the Conservative party of recent years ever really be said to have been in recovery from its addiction to pure, teeth-gnashing chaos? It’s...

12.12.2023 4

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When it comes to the UK’s asylum plan, Rwanda is definitely having the last laugh

How does the UK government truly see the country of Rwanda? Is it as a vibrant and secure place to start a new life? Or is it – to adapt a phrase...

08.12.2023 6

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You can’t handle the truth, Johnson will tell the Covid inquiry: a bit rich from a man who can’t recognise it

According to all the people he’s leaked his witness statement to, Boris Johnson will tell the Covid inquiry not to pay much attention to WhatsApp...

05.12.2023 4

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One small slip and Omid Scobie’s Harry and Meghan book goes stratospheric. Imagine his distress

A hugely intriguing week in Dutch publishing mishaps, as the Netherlands’ edition of a new book about the royals names King Charles and the Princess...

01.12.2023 4

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Isn’t this the eureka moment: a Cop28 to save the planet – staged by oil barons who imperil it?

“A petrostate hosting a climate conference” sounds like a situation shouted out at an improv night, after they’ve done the ones about a fox...

28.11.2023 6

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Nigel Farage wants people to see the ‘real him’ in the jungle. Surely we’ve seen more than enough already

To the Australian jungle, where the most successful politician of his generation/seven-times-failed UK parliamentary candidate Nigel Farage is...

24.11.2023 4

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Rewarding failure? With David Cameron’s return, it’s being celebrated like never before

Who’s that walking up Downing Street? Why, it’s the man who ghosted Britain! In some ways the sight of David Cameron back in SW1 was always a...

14.11.2023 100

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In remembrance of our fallen heroes, brave Suella Braverman goes over the top

Britain is a country that will always come up with new ways to honour its war heroes. You just can’t stop us – respect simply finds a way. Thus it...

10.11.2023 5

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What’s in Nadine Dorries’s book? A pile of dead cats big enough to kill that phrase for good

Has there ever been anything more British than the reaction to Nadine Dorries’s book? The former culture secretary has penned a volume titled The...

07.11.2023 10

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When Musk met Sunak: the prime minister was more starry-eyed than a SpaceX telescope

A few weeks ago, Elon Musk was begging Taylor Swift to release some concert videos on his X platform, but she weirdly seems to have gone ahead with...

03.11.2023 7

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Let’s ease up on Johnson and Cummings: Covid was just the ‘wrong crisis’ for them, OK?

Tuesday at the Covid inquiry was men-who-think-about-the-Roman-empire day. Dominic Cummings presents as a man who thinks of the Roman empire so often...

01.11.2023 80

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Dear Mr Speaker, what are we to do about the honourable gentlemen for Sexpest North?

Another week, another arrest on suspicion of sexual assault for a member of parliament – Britain’s grimmest workplace. Even the nightclub bouncer...

27.10.2023 6

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Ofcom says GB news is not impartial, but how can that be true? It has every kind of wingnut going

Imagine how shocked I was to have my free speech endangered by the boss of GB News before the channel even launched. Angelos Frangopoulos was offended...

24.10.2023 30

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Rishi Sunak, decorated hero of the war on motorists, is no match for a real-world conflict

Consider the struggle of a modern statesman such as Rishi Sunak, forced to segue from fibbing about a meat tax and state-mandated carpooling to flying...

20.10.2023 50

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Diana’s ghost in The Crown? Darling, what’s new? She’s the hardest working spectre in showbiz

There is spine-tingling supernatural news from The Crown, a TV show that takes itself considerably more seriously than the actual royal family. This...

17.10.2023 7

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Here’s how the UK can honour those suffering in the Middle East: by being decent ourselves

S everal Jewish schools in London today stand closed out of fear for the safety of the children who attend them and the staff who teach at them. I was...

13.10.2023 3

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Look at the horror of the Israel-Hamas war: then at Elon Musk’s X site. It’s clear he’s not fit to run it

W ay back in the mid-1990s, back when UK cable TV was considered new media, the notorious former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie was launch boss for a...

10.10.2023 10

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The Guardian view on outsourcing border controls: this is a dereliction of duty by Europe

A t last month’s Venice film festival, a fictional portrayal of African migrants seeking to reach Europe received widespread acclaim. Me, Captain...

08.10.2023 7

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Martin Rowson on a bigger problem than HS2 for Rishi Sunak – cartoon

06.10.2023 3

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Through a Ulez camera, I spy the vandal who chopped down Laurence Fox’s career. It looks a lot like him

O f all the buzz-phrases of 2023, the description of anti-Ulez-camera vandals as “blade runners” provokes the biggest eyeroll. Are you aware of...

06.10.2023 20

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Congrats, Rishi: you’ve got a party so dreadful that Nigel Farage is finally willing to join

I ’m still heavily sedated after the triumphant return of Liz Truss to the Conservative party conference, less than a calendar year after she caused...

03.10.2023 70

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