You could be a Boris Johnson or a Michael Gove, or maybe you’re more of a Hunt After a brutal round of voting that last week saw three candidates chopped from the Conservative leadership contest and another drop out voluntarily, we’re now down to an all-male shortlist of six MPs vying to become Tory leader. […]

7 years ago

The internet is, at times, a loathsome place Full of hisses and shrieks. People in comment sections telling each other how wrong they are. People with egg profile pics making weird remarks. Vile remarks. Sexual explicit remarks. Remarks you’re quite happy you don’t fully understand. So much of it feeling like it needed to go […]

7 years ago

Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Dominic Raab, Sajid Javid and Rory Stewart all showed up Boris Johnson has refused to show up to the Channel 4-hosted Conservative leadership contest debate leaving an empty lectern left on stage by the broadcaster. The 90-minute debate, presented by Kristian Guru-Murthy, is the first of a number of planned hustings of […]

7 years ago

The work and pensions secretary has said there are enough Conservative MPs to bring down the government There are enough Tory MPs to collapse the government and prevent a no-deal Brexit, Amber Rudd has warned the Conservative leadership candidates, after Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab this week threatened to push through the UK’s withdrawal with […]

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“I’m used to it. I had this when I was at school” Jeremy Hunt, famous for repeatedly being referred to as “Jeremy C**t” by journos at the BBC (as well as being the foreign secretary), has told broadcasters to “grow up” after journalists made the mistake again this week. Earlier this week, Victoria Derbyshire made the […]

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We still have no explanation from Bieber. We still have no response from Cruise Silence. So far that’s all we have from Tom Cruises’ camp after he was offered out for a fight by Justin Bieber on Sunday night, in yet another bizarre episode of The Internet In 2019. Bieber too has remained schtum since […]

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He did say “ask me anything” Conservative leadership candidate Mark Harper has said that a lion would win in a fight between a lion and a bear as it is a “symbol of Britain”, despite a bear having an obvious reach advantage. Harper was asked the question as part of an “ask me anything” Q&A as he […]

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McVey vs Kelly: Round 2 It’s fair to say that nobody saw Lorraine Kelly and Esther McVey being the bitterest rivalry to come out of the Tory leadership contest, but hey it’s 2019, BBC journalists can’t stop calling the foreign secretary “Cunt”, anything can happen. Just to recap, it began yesterday when Kelly told Piers […]

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It never stops being funny Victoria Derbyshire has become the latest BBC presenter to mistakenly refer to foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt as “Jeremy Cunt” on live TV. The mishap (/ Freudian slip) came on the presenter’s eponymous Victoria Derbyshire Show as she was addressing Conservative MP Steve Brine. During the debate over who should replace Theresa […]

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The Conservative leadership candidate used to work on GMTV with Lorraine Watch this clip of Lorraine Kelly being asked about Esther McVey live on Good Morning Britain and try not to cringe. The pair used to work together on GMTV, so when McVey made an appearance alongside Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid and they lived linked to Lorraine, which […]

7 years ago

“Does Cruise have the sprouts to fight, like he does in the movies?” Justin Bieber offered Tom Cruise out for a UFC fight on Twitter, leading to Conor McGregor offering to host the showdown if the Hollywood actor accepts. “I wanna challenge Tom Cruise to fight in the Octagon,” Bieber wrote on Twitter. “Tom if […]

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Xbox Scarlett is coming next year Microsoft has announced the replacement to its Xbox One will be released for Christmas 2020 at E3. Although the console has yet to be given a full name, it is currently being referred to as Project Scarlett, with Halo: Infinite among the planned launch titles. The console will be “four times” […]

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It’s coming to Xbox One, PS4 and PC Keanu Reeves has been revealed as starring in Cyberpunk 2077 in an epic trailer for the forthcoming video game. The 54-year-old John Wick actor appeared on stage at E3 as the cinematic teaser for the game was first aired. The character modelled on Reeves, named Jonny Silverhand, appears […]

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The newspapers have run a joint editorial on the issue Newspaper from across the north of England have come together to run joint frontpages calling on the government to change the way it treats communities outside of London. The Power Up The North collaboration between 33 newspapers and websites follows the launch of the One […]

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“These are matters of conscience” Jeremy Hunt has said that the legal time limit for abortions should be halved from 24 weeks to 12. The foreign secretary is one of the eleven Tory candidates in the running to replace Theresa May as leader of the Conservative party. The comments came as he was quizzed on […]

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The cause of the fire is not known at this stage Around a hundred firefighters are currently tackling a fire at a block of flats in east London. The blaze broke out at a block of flats on De Pass Gardens in Barking with the fire service called at 3:31pm and fifteen fire engines dispatched […]

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“I would be using what was in my toolkit” Esther McVey has become the second Conservative party leadership candidate, after Dominic Raab, to suggest that she could ask the Queen to suspend parliament in order to force through a no-deal Brexit. Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, McVey said that if selected as the Tory […]

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“We love Trump, we love Trump, we love Trump” It was fitting that on the second day of the US president’s visit to the UK, under grey skies, the rallying cry from the few of his supporters that had gathered in Parliament Square, was not in celebration but antagonisation. Thousands of anti-Trump, anti-Brexit and anti-everything else on the other side […]

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A method of protest straight out of the schoolboy’s handbook An 18-year-old student used a lawnmower to carve protest messages into the lawn close to where Donald Trump arrived in the country via aeroplane on Monday morning. Ollie Nancarrow spent the weekend mowing the phrases “Oi Trump” and “Climate change is real”, along with a […]

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“He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me” Donald Trump launched into a Twitter tirade against Sadiq Khan moments before touching down in London, describing him as a “stone cold loser” who has done a “terrible job” as London mayor. The US president also compared the Labour politician […]

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The Brexit Party leader has described the situation as “absolutely ludicrous” Nigel Farage has accused Downing Street of banning him from meeting Donald Trump during his state visit to the UK next week. The Brexit Party leader claims that Number 10 told the US president’s team not to meet him when Trump makes his state […]

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There’s likely to be more Trump x Boris content to come Donald Trump has endorsed Boris Johnson’s bid to become the next leader of the Conservative party, saying that he is a “very good guy” and would make an “excellent” prime minister. The comments came in an exclusive interview with The Sun ahead of the […]

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Sadiq Khan has granted permission for the balloon depicting Donald Trump as a baby to fly in Westminster during the US president’s visit to the UK The 20-foot Donald Trump baby balloon that the president said last year made him feel “unwelcome” in London will once again fly when he makes a state visit to […]

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“We’ve got to get on with this!” Nigel Farage has said he should have a place on Britain’s European Union negotiations team after his Brexit Party secured the most public support in the European elections. With the newly formed anti-EU party taking at least 29 seats in the European parliament and 31.6% of the public […]

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Brian Monteith has been accused of hypocrisy by his political opponents A newly elected Brexit Party MEP who stood in the north east of England still lives in France, despite running on an anti-free movement platform in the European elections. Brian Monteith, who lives in Trevien in southern France and was previously a Conservative member of the […]

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Despite having 11 MPs in parliament, the people of Yorkshire favoured greater independence over CUK’s ‘new politics’ Change UK suffered humiliation at the European elections in Yorkshire and Humber after they finished behind the regional Yorkshire Party, which supports the county getting its own parliament and devolved powers. Despite the Yorkshire federalist party having just […]

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“We’re going to turn the tide of history!” Magid Magid, the former Sheffield mayor who banned Donald Trump from the city, has been elected as a Green MEP in the European elections. The local councillor – who served a mayor until earlier this month – was one of six MEPs elected in Yorkshire and Humber, […]

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Nobody can agree on whether Remain or Leave won the Euros A graph of European election polling data that put Remain-backing parties ahead of Leave parties at the European election has caused controversy online after Labour and the Tories were placed into separate categories. The Brexit party and UKIP took 31.6% and 3.3% of the […]

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“It’s the honour of a lifetime to be elected as an MEP for south east England” It was a momentous night for people named Alexandra Phillips in the south east of England on Sunday night with two candidates with that name elected to European parliament. Despite sharing the same first and last name the pair […]

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The former UKIP leader has led his new party to victory in the European elections Nigel Farage retained his seat as an MEP in the south east of England as his newly formed Brexit Party continued its successes at the European elections. The vote saw a total collapse of the Conservative vote in the region, […]

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Labour haemorrhaging votes to nationalists from both sides of the political spectrum Labour has been humiliated in Wales by the Brexit Party and Plaid Cymru, with Nigel Farage’s party coming first with 32.5 per cent of the vote and the Welsh nationalists second with 19.6 per cent. Although the country has traditionally been a Labour heartland, […]

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The Tories will be crying even more tears tonight The Conservative party has suffered humiliation at the European elections in London after failing to return a single MEP. In the eight seats contested in the region, the Liberal Democrats took three – Irina Von Wiese, Dinesh Dhamija, Luisa Porritt, Labour two – Claude Moraes, Sebastian […]

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It’s looking like Nigel Farage is going to have a very good night The first UK results from the European Elections have handed two seats to the Brexit Party and one to Labour in the north east of England. The result means that Labour has lost one seat in the area with the Brexit Party […]

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A big night for Nigel Farage and the Lib Dems Projections for the results of the European elections have suggested that Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party will receive the most seats of any party in the UK, with Lib Dems in second and Labour in third. The forecast, posted to social media by Britain Elects, suggests […]

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Leadsom said she does not believe the UK would not be “truly sovereign” under the proposed deal House of Commons leader Andrea Leadsom has quit her post over the government’s approach to Brexit, saying “I no longer believe that our approach will deliver on the referendum result”. In her resignation letter, the MP for South Northamptonshire said she […]

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The former UKIP leader’s bus has been targeted Nigel Farage has reportedly been trapped in his Brexit Party campaign bus after a group holding milkshakes showed up at a campaign event. It is believed that the bus is currently surrounded by the group in Kent where the Brexit Party leader was out campaigning, with Farage […]

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Theresa May has hung a carrot in front of MPs from across the Commons Theresa May announced that she will offer MPs a vote on the whether to hold a second referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU, as she revealed the terms of her new Brexit deal on Monday. In a speech, the prime […]

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The Brexit Party leader was targeted on Monday afternoon Nigel Farage has become the latest right-wing political figure to have a milkshake thrown at him in the run-up to the European Elections. The Brexit Party leader erupted at his security in the aftermath of the attack close to Monument in Newcastle city centre, telling his […]

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Hatari waved the Palestinian flag on camera during the show Iceland’s Eurovision act staged a protest against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories on Saturday night, leading to boos from the audience. As points were being announced at the end of the show, the camera quickly moved away from the country’s act, Hatari, after they […]

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Madonna didn’t ignore the Israel and Palestine conflict at Eurovision The Eurovision  Song Contest final went ahead on Sunday night in Israel, despite some calls to boycott the contest due to the host state’s policies towards Palestinians. Madonna, in particular, received criticism from pro-Palestinian groups for her decision to perform at the contest, including from Primal Scream’s Bobby […]

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Johnson is a favourite among the grassroots membership Boris Johnson has confirmed that he will run to be prime minister in any future Conservative leadership contest. Asked at a business event in Manchester if he would put himself forward, the former foreign secretary replied: “Of course I’m going to go for it.” Adding: “I don’t […]

7 years ago

Bielsa has refused to commit his future to Leeds United Concerns over finances next season may mean Bielsa leaves Leeds United over summer, it is reported. The Yorkshire side’s head coach refused to commit to the club following the teams crushing defeat to Derby County at Elland Road during a post-match press conference, although he added […]

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Leeds United could be going up… If they can beat Derby tonight and Aston Villa in the Playoff final, Leeds will return to England’s top tier, a title it has been over a quarter of a century since they last won under Howard Wilkinson. Their last golden period came under David O’Leary, the crowning achievement […]

7 years ago

*Insert Game of Thrones spoiler warning here* The penultimate Game of Thrones saw the end of one the series most complex and intriguing characters. While he might never have been front and centre of the show, like, say Jon Snow, Varys was involved in most of the large-scale events that affected how the plot developed, and always […]

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The Jeremy Kyle show will not return to ITV Production of The Jeremy Kyle show has been ended, ITV has confirmed. The cancellation of the show comes after Steve Dymond, a guest on the show, committed suicide following an appearance in which he failed a lie detector test. The episode in which Dymond appeared had been […]

7 years ago

He wore a suit to the restaurant, arriving in a limousine and presenting a business card A 27-year-old student has been arrested in South Africa after getting free KFC by claiming to be a food quality inspector from head office. The student at the University of KwaZulu-Natal showed at a number of restaurants in the […]

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‘RemainVoter.com’ has been created by data scientists to provide Remain supporters with the best tactical voting options A new website has been setup by a group of data scientists to help Remain supporters decide who to vote for in the upcoming European elections. The launch of the platform comes with polling released yesterday ahead of […]

7 years ago

It was confirmed that the promised trip to Las Vegas was not going ahead following Newcastle’s win over Fulham on Sunday The all-expenses paid trip to Las Vegas that Mike Ashley promised the Newcastle team in October if they recovered from their poor start and avoided relegation will not go ahead, it was confirmed after […]

7 years ago

He wore a Manchester City shirt and rewrote the lyrics to ‘Yesterday’ at WWE Liverpool WWE’s Elias hit a sensitive button in Merseyside on Sunday night by wearing a Man City top and celebrating the Manchester team topping the Premier League, just hours after it was confirmed that Liverpool would finish in second place this […]

7 years ago

Some Game of Thrones fans (nerds) have suggested that it made little sense that Arya was able to penetrate the White Walker’s defences Seeing as though some of you lot have been complaining in the comments section about us giving away spoilers – despite the episode having been out for over 24 hours! – I’ve […]

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