2 h. ago Trump’s bullshit blitz has Europe on its knees | Stewart Lee

For the US president’s cheerleaders, the whitewashing of the deaths of ten of thousands of Ukrainians is a small price to pay for sticking it to the wokeratiWas it really only a month ago that the pole-dancer patron, fridge explorer, Brexit get-doer, model bus maker, sofa-strainer, wall-spaffer, current Daily Mail columnist and former British prime minister Boris Johnson eulogised the inauguration of Donald Trump in the Mail, recounting how, as the “invisible pulse of power surged” from the battered bible into the hand of Trump: “I saw the moment the world’s wokerati had worked so hard to prevent.”I hope Johnson is pleased with the way things have worked out. Because now the foolish wokerati have been schooled beyond Johnson’s wettest dreams. It’s the Trump-Putin-bin Salman party! An adjudicated sex offender and convicted fraudster, and a man who sanctioned a chemical warfare hit, killing a British citizen on British soil, have met at the luxury Saudia Arabian hotel of another man, ...

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7 h. ago Scottish Labour MP flew to Donald Trump inauguration and held secret talks with Texan investor

SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Central Ayrshire MP Alan Gemmell claims he was invited out to the US capital by an mystery Texan company.

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67 h. ago Elon Musk to make first US public speech since 'Nazi salute' row with surprise appearance

The erratic tech billionaire is to give a speech to huge MAGA conference CPAC in Washington today - a month on from his appearance at Donald Trump's inauguration bash

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68 h. ago Donald Trump 'spends nearly 1/3 of time' on expensive hobby – not related to presidency

According to a campaign group, recently-inaugurated US President Donald Trump has spent close to 30% of his days on a rather expensive pastime that is not linked to his job

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3 d. ago Mark Zuckerberg’s charity guts DEI after assuring staff it would continue

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ends internal inclusion efforts and ‘social advocacy’ grants, scrubbing site of commitmentThe for-profit charity organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan has done an about face on its commitment to corporate diversity.Executives at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) informed employees on Tuesday evening that the organization would in effect do away with both internal and external diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, according to an internal email and other correspondence viewed by the Guardian. In late January, leaders at CZI reassured staff that its longstanding support for DEI was not changing. Zuckerberg’s company Meta announced it would terminate its DEI programs a month prior, in the days before Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Seven wildest things Trump's done – from 'buying' Greenland attempt to weird renaming

From expressing a bizarre desire to 'buy' Greenland, to his mate Elon Musk's 'Nazi salute' on inauguration day, Donald Trump's 2025 has been wild – here's a round up of all his strangest moments

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4 d. ago Chrisette Michelle sang for Trump in 2017. The backlash lasted years: ‘I thought they’d never stop hating me’

Though she didn’t support the president, the performance nearly destroyed her career. Not so for Snoop Dogg in 2025The Grammy-winning singer Chrisette Michele keeps her phone switched off, a habit that stems from her long stint in cancellation purgatory. Her brother barely got through last month to relay the news that Snoop Dogg had been DJing at a party for Donald Trump’s second inaugural, and many in the Black community were irate. Longtime fans were calling Snoop a sellout, she learned, and were unfollowing him online by the hundreds of thousands.Snoop remained defiant in the face of this controversy, which really peeved the hordes who well remember when Snoop was regulating Maga support in the music industry. That defiance “was the thing that resonated with me”, says Michele when I initially reach her the week after Trump’s second inauguration. “We live in a different era where you can say what you think and not feel like you might die.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago To the CEOs who’ve joined Trump’s fight against diversity, I say this: you’re making a big mistake | Stefan Stern

Ditching DEI initiatives will curry favour in the Oval Office. It will also alienate the workforces bosses rely onThe mask has slipped and the gloves are off. A company which in 2022 boasted that it had exceeded its target, “spending $1.26 billion with US certified diverse suppliers”, is now ending diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.That company is Meta (formerly known as Facebook), whose chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, announced DEI dismantling shortly before he had a prominent seat at Donald Trump’s recent inauguration. Perhaps from that privileged spot he was able to imbibe some of the “masculine energy” he says he wants to see at work.Stefan Stern is co-author of Myths of Management and the former director of the High Pay Centre. His latest book is Fair or Foul: the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition Continue reading...

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