6 h. ago SNL cold open skewers Trump for seemingly falling asleep during meetings — and jokes he was dreaming of Mamdani

“I’m very much awake,” Trump, played by James Austin Johnson, said. “Now someone quickly tell me where am I, who am I and what year might it be.”

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4 d. ago 'Dozy Don' accused of falling ASLEEP as he closes his eyes during Cabinet meeting

Sleepy Joe has been replaced by 'Dozy Don, as President Donald Trump appeared to nod off during Tuesday's Cabinet meeting, which stretched two hours and 18 minutes.

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7 d. ago Jack Fincham 'spotted snogging MAFS star' after split from TOWIE's Chloe Brockett

Love Island star Jack Fincham is working his way through reality show romances - with a Married At First Sight star the latest to fall for his seemingly unstoppable charms

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8 d. ago The Guide #219:: Don’t panic! Revisiting the millennium’s wildest cultural predictions

In this week’s newsletter: The turn-of-the-2000s produced a frenzy of cultural crystal-ball gazing . Two decades on those bold forecasts reveal as much about us as they do about the era itself• Don’t get The Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereI love revisiting articles from around the turn of the millennium, a fascinatingly febrile period when everyone – but journalists especially – briefly lost the run of themselves. It seems strange now to think that the ticking over of a clock from 23:59 to 00:00 would prompt such big feelings, of excitement, terror, of end-of-days abandon, but it really did (I can remember feeling them myself as a teenager, especially the end-of-days-abandon bit.)Of course, some of that feeling came from the ticking over of the clock itself: the fears over the Y2K bug might seem quite silly today, but its potential ramifications – planes falling out of the sky, power grids failing, entire life savings being deleted in a stroke – would have sent anyone a...

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1 week ago UK Budget RECAP: SNP on 'absolute chaos' for Scotland as Rachel Reeves defends tax rises

The UK Budget was a crucial moment for under-pressure Sir Keir Starmer and his Chancellor Rachel Reeves - the markets seem happy, but what will the ultimate fallout be?

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1 week ago UK Budget LIVE: OBR forecast leaked early in error as SNP claim 'absolute chaos' for Scotland

The UK Budget was a crucial moment for under pressure Sir Keir Starmer and his Chancellor Rachel Reeves - the markets seem happy but what will the fall out be?

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1 week ago ROLAND WHITE reviews Civilisations: Rise And Fall: BBC turns the history of Rome into a lecture on immigration and equality

BBC series Civilisations Rise And Fall seems to believe its core audience struggles with detail and has the attention span of a hyperactive squirrel.

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2 w. ago Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future – an astonishing look at how tech is changing disabled people’s lives

Prepare to have your perspective shattered by the comedian’s visits to our US tech overlords. The upcoming advancements for those with disabilities are life-changingWashing machines liberated women to get soul-crushing jobs that ate up their free time. Social media gave the world one revolution – before it destabilised democracies everywhere else. Now AI is here, and its main job seems to be replacing screenwriters. It’s easy to fall into techno-pessimism, but new documentary Seeing into the Future (Sunday 23 November, 8pm, BBC Two) has a different angle. For disabled people, tech has already brought about life-changing advancements. And we haven’t seen anything yet.It is presented by comedian and Strictly winner Chris McCausland, who is blind. Some of the most casually astonishing scenes occur early on, showing how he uses his phone – essentially, an eye with a mouth. “What T-shirt is this?” he asks, holding up a garment. “A grey T-shirt with a graphic logo of Deftones,” his p...

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2 w. ago Kenny McLean jokes 'we can dream' as Scotland meme goes viral after World Cup heroics

McLean’s famous bottle of MD 2020 has been swapped by the celebrating Tartan Army

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3 w. ago North Wales councillor hits back after being caught 'asleep' in meeting

Bernice McLoughlin, a councillor in North Wales, has been seen in footage apparently falling asleep during a council meeting - but she insists she was just resting her eyes

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3 w. ago Welsh councillor accused of falling asleep during a council meeting insists she closed her eyes 'to rest them'

A Welsh councillor has denied accusations that she fell asleep during a council meeting saying that she was closing her eyes 'to rest them'.

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3 w. ago SNL is slammed for allowing cold opening act to joke about rape, incest and pedophilia: 'This is offensive'

Saturday Night Live viewers have been left outraged and disgusted by Nikki Glaser's bizarre monologue, making light of rape, incest, pedophilia and sex trafficking.

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3 w. ago SNL skewers Trump over travel chaos and grocery prices in cold open

The president, played by cast member James Austin Johnson, heralded a win for Republicans after the Supreme Court ruled that they could ‘stop feeding poor people’ and prices had ‘plummeted up!’

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last month MTG skewers Trump on rising food prices as president says he doesn’t ‘wanna hear about the affordability’

‘I go to the grocery store myself. Grocery prices remain high,’ Greene said

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