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So you've applied to become US ambassador. We need someone we can trust. Looking through your CV now. Well this is appalling. You're hired!
So you've applied to become US ambassador. We need someone we can trust. Looking through your CV now. Well this is appalling. You're hired!
A banya with a billionaire, an undeclared loan and ‘pure poison’: the many scandals of Peter Mandelson
Despite his value to Starmer, the New Labour veteran has been forced into an extraordinary third resignation
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February 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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So you've applied to become US ambassador. We need someone we can trust. Looking through your CV now. Well this is appalling. You're hired!
So you've applied to become US ambassador. We need someone we can trust. Looking through your CV now. Well this is appalling. You're hired!
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New entry for the most divorced man in the UK
January 25, 2026 at 2:13 PM
New entry for the most divorced man in the UK
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I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors
January 23, 2026 at 9:33 PM
I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors
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This calls for the strongest possible response.
An unprecedented third state visit?
An unprecedented third state visit?
January 17, 2026 at 4:54 PM
This calls for the strongest possible response.
An unprecedented third state visit?
An unprecedented third state visit?
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I would know if I was being slowly corrupted by insidious forces beyond my comprehension. I would comprehend it easily
January 10, 2026 at 7:12 PM
I would know if I was being slowly corrupted by insidious forces beyond my comprehension. I would comprehend it easily
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Overseas care workers go above and beyond to support our loved ones.
How does the government show its gratitude? By making it harder for them to live and work in the UK.
I have written to the Home Secretary urging them to reverse these changes and support care workers instead!
How does the government show its gratitude? By making it harder for them to live and work in the UK.
I have written to the Home Secretary urging them to reverse these changes and support care workers instead!
January 9, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Overseas care workers go above and beyond to support our loved ones.
How does the government show its gratitude? By making it harder for them to live and work in the UK.
I have written to the Home Secretary urging them to reverse these changes and support care workers instead!
How does the government show its gratitude? By making it harder for them to live and work in the UK.
I have written to the Home Secretary urging them to reverse these changes and support care workers instead!
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Apparently my wife’s karate teacher’s sourdough starter exploded in the back of our car when she was giving him a ride to his mom’s bakery after his car wouldn’t start? Whew! I think I have that straight. Anyway, big mess!
January 9, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Apparently my wife’s karate teacher’s sourdough starter exploded in the back of our car when she was giving him a ride to his mom’s bakery after his car wouldn’t start? Whew! I think I have that straight. Anyway, big mess!
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I’ve got loads!
- Medieval people washed regularly, drank water, and didn’t have rotten teeth
- WW1 did not end in 1918
- Queen Victoria was a horndog
- Ancient Egyptians invented Egyptology by excavating their own ancient monuments
- We know more about Shakespeare than many other famous Tudors
- Medieval people washed regularly, drank water, and didn’t have rotten teeth
- WW1 did not end in 1918
- Queen Victoria was a horndog
- Ancient Egyptians invented Egyptology by excavating their own ancient monuments
- We know more about Shakespeare than many other famous Tudors
January 5, 2026 at 10:51 PM
I’ve got loads!
- Medieval people washed regularly, drank water, and didn’t have rotten teeth
- WW1 did not end in 1918
- Queen Victoria was a horndog
- Ancient Egyptians invented Egyptology by excavating their own ancient monuments
- We know more about Shakespeare than many other famous Tudors
- Medieval people washed regularly, drank water, and didn’t have rotten teeth
- WW1 did not end in 1918
- Queen Victoria was a horndog
- Ancient Egyptians invented Egyptology by excavating their own ancient monuments
- We know more about Shakespeare than many other famous Tudors
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“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
"Who on earth gives that advice?"
www.sfgate.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
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Top Adrian Chiles Columns of 2025:
I’ve given up wild swimming. So why does my Volvo smell like mince?
Should I tell the postman he has halitosis? My first wife wouldn’t let me wear shorts.
I buried my father with my bare hands. It’s time we stopped talking about glamping. 1/3
I’ve given up wild swimming. So why does my Volvo smell like mince?
Should I tell the postman he has halitosis? My first wife wouldn’t let me wear shorts.
I buried my father with my bare hands. It’s time we stopped talking about glamping. 1/3
December 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Top Adrian Chiles Columns of 2025:
I’ve given up wild swimming. So why does my Volvo smell like mince?
Should I tell the postman he has halitosis? My first wife wouldn’t let me wear shorts.
I buried my father with my bare hands. It’s time we stopped talking about glamping. 1/3
I’ve given up wild swimming. So why does my Volvo smell like mince?
Should I tell the postman he has halitosis? My first wife wouldn’t let me wear shorts.
I buried my father with my bare hands. It’s time we stopped talking about glamping. 1/3
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Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”
December 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”
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FYI lads, This only works if you do it in Toast of London’s voice.
November 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
FYI lads, This only works if you do it in Toast of London’s voice.
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"Despite their hollow words, this Government is betraying it’s promises to millions of people who have lived and worked here for years. This is a retreat into a smaller, meaner England - one where belonging is rationed, and diversity is punished.” 2/2
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Despite their hollow words, this Government is betraying it’s promises to millions of people who have lived and worked here for years. This is a retreat into a smaller, meaner England - one where belonging is rationed, and diversity is punished.” 2/2
"People who arrived on post-Brexit health and social care visas would have to wait 15 years, up from five year currently"
Oh sure I'll vote Labour. On the condition my vote is counted retroactively. Delayed 15 years when a new batch of more compassionate Labour candidates are available.
Oh sure I'll vote Labour. On the condition my vote is counted retroactively. Delayed 15 years when a new batch of more compassionate Labour candidates are available.
Some migrants to face 20-year wait for settled status
Shabana Mahmood says becoming part of the UK is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"People who arrived on post-Brexit health and social care visas would have to wait 15 years, up from five year currently"
Oh sure I'll vote Labour. On the condition my vote is counted retroactively. Delayed 15 years when a new batch of more compassionate Labour candidates are available.
Oh sure I'll vote Labour. On the condition my vote is counted retroactively. Delayed 15 years when a new batch of more compassionate Labour candidates are available.
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"We have become the destination of choice in Europe" according to the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.
Data from Eurostat & the Home Office shows the UK had the fifth largest number of claims of the EU/UK area in 2025, at 108,000... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691ae0...
Data from Eurostat & the Home Office shows the UK had the fifth largest number of claims of the EU/UK area in 2025, at 108,000... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691ae0...
November 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"We have become the destination of choice in Europe" according to the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.
Data from Eurostat & the Home Office shows the UK had the fifth largest number of claims of the EU/UK area in 2025, at 108,000... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691ae0...
Data from Eurostat & the Home Office shows the UK had the fifth largest number of claims of the EU/UK area in 2025, at 108,000... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691ae0...
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corrigendum: ball, singular. FFS.
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
corrigendum: ball, singular. FFS.
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I cannot inagine how it feels to be this boy’s parents. What on earth are we doing, with everything we know about the ways unregulated social media have changed us, letting it happen all over again but worse with chatbots? www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I cannot inagine how it feels to be this boy’s parents. What on earth are we doing, with everything we know about the ways unregulated social media have changed us, letting it happen all over again but worse with chatbots? www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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You may call it ‘Chatfishing’, but I shall only refer to it as ‘Cyrano de Berger-App’
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‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder
Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...
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October 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
You may call it ‘Chatfishing’, but I shall only refer to it as ‘Cyrano de Berger-App’
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September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM