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Dawn French’s Gaza video is unforgivable

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End of the rainbow: Pride’s fall can’t come soon enough

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Will Gary Lineker please take the BBC with him when he goes?

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I Kissed A Boy / Why has the BBC’s gay dating show got a trans contestant?

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The National Theatre just gets worse and worse

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No joke / How Ian Hislop failed the gender test

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The hypocrisy of Virgin Atlantic’s new flights to Saudi

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TV / Have I Got News for You is a sad, unfunny spectacle

22.04.2025 20

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Schlock and awe / Bring back gory book covers!

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TV nightmare / The sad death of ITV

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The cringeworthiness of showing Adolescence in schools

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What happened to trash TV escapism?

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Paddington Bear and the new idolitory

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Taking the rap / Stormzy isn’t cool

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The plight of James O’Brien

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Corporation lax / The sad truth about the BBC

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Special relationship / Why Brits keep getting a tongue lashing from Team Trump

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Lost in space / How Star Trek invented DEI

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Alles klar / Why the Germans don’t do it better

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Andrew Gwynne and the truth about WhatsApp

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The strangeness and sanity of Donald Trump

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Why we’re horrified by Bonnie Blue and Andrew Tate

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The ‘grooming gangs’ delusion is finally being shattered

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The grooming gang scandal needs to change our entire worldview

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The joy of Kemi and Farage’s Christmas feud

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Pulp have always been in the wrong place at the wrong time

Pulp, the legendary band fronted by Jarvis Cocker, have revealed that they’ve signed a new recording deal with equally legendary independent label...

27.12.2024 10

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Let’s hope Donald Trump doesn’t mess it up

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What’s the truth about the New Jersey drone sightings?

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The Trafalgar Square Christmas tree is a truly sorry sight

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World war twee: the hideous triviality of our times

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I’m A Celebrity has been enjoyably dull

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The origins of hate

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Farewell Gary Lineker, you won’t be missed

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The cult of Paddington has gone too far

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