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This teabag metaphor is the smartest thing anyone has ever said on Brexit
Comedian James Acaster has been credited with saying the "smartest thing anyone has ever said on Brexit" after his teabag metaphor went viral on social media. Appearing on Mock the Week the Kettering funnyman compared Britain's exit from the single market to taking a teabag out of a cup of peppermint tea rather than leaving it in. He said although the bag appears to be getting weaker if you leave it in the cup on the whole gets stronger. Whereas if...
May ridiculed for saying People’s Vote will “overturn will of British people”
Theresa May has been ridiculed after she argued a People's Vote would "overturn the will of the British people". J.K. Rowling led the social media onslaught saying May's comments in response to John McDonnell's assertion that Labour will inevitably back a second Brexit referendum "make literally no sense". "Who does she think would be voting? The Chinese?", she said. The shadow chancellor claimed yesterday that Labour will back a People's Vote if the party is unable to force a general election in comments that...
Search continues for the missing winner of a £76,369,806.80 EuroMillions jackpot prize
The National Lottery will be deploying advans
Fleas & flies could have been spreading diseases such as malaria amongst dinosaurs
Traces of disease have been found in 100 million year old insects preserved in amber.
Bridging the growing inequality divide in London
In a city of 33 bridges London is internationally renowned for the many architectural constructs that gracefully line the River Thames. But one divide the city has long struggled to bridge is that between the most well off and those enduring significant hardship in the capital. London is increasingly becoming a tale of two cities. According to the most recent Social Attitudes Survey, eight in ten people think that the divide between social classes is wide or very wide, whilst...
Rough sleepers told their belongings will be removed from council-run car parks
Rough sleepers have been told their belongings will be removed from council-run car parks because they could be “tripping hazards”.
Residents of posh London street have set up their own community force
Maliha Butt heads a ‘vigilante’ Whatsapp group that was created to investigate 12 burglaries that took place in just three months in posh Sutton.
Fears growing for a missing teenager called Lucifer
Lucifer Orange, 15, was last seen at his home in Nottinghamshire three weeks ago
Two-thirds of Brits don’t think they will ever land their ‘dream job’
Nearly nine in 10 Brits aren't working in their 'dream job'. A study of 2,000 employees found 85 per cent are working in a position which isn't ideal for them. And nearly two-thirds don’t think they will ever land their 'dream job'. Millennials are the most optimistic generation, as 64 per cent of 18-35s think they will be in the perfect role in an average of six years from now. Despite four in five saying they enjoy their current role,...