John Plunkett

6 days ago | thepoke.com | John Plunkett

Reform UK’s love of all things Donald Trump knows no bounds, so it will probably come as no surprise that Nigel Farage’s party has just announced its first ‘DOGE’ audit into Kent County Council, one of the councils it took control of in May’s local elections. Party chairman Zia Yusuf was especially excited to announce it on Twitter – where else? – where he said a team of big brains would apparently be working for zero cash to do it. Reform’s UK DOGE has been formed.

6 days ago | thepoke.com | John Plunkett

Robert Jenrick has been making a name for himself the last day or two with a video in which he challenged people apparently fare dodging on the London Underground. The shadow Conservative justice secretary and once (and presumably future) party leadership hopeful got all vigilante with. his video made at Stratford station in east London, which is in the third most deprived borough in the capital. Sadiq Khan is driving a proud city into the ground. Lawbreaking is out of control. He’s not acting.

6 days ago | thepoke.com | John Plunkett

Elon Musk has finally let the Trump administration and we’re not quite sure how much waste he managed to slash but he definitely managed to shred his own reputation, so there’s always that. The Mars obsessive has never been less than anything other than totally outspoken, so it was only natural that CBS correspondent David Pogue would want to ask him about some of the things being done by the Trump administration, whose top table he has only just vacated.

2 weeks ago | thepoke.com | John Plunkett

Donald Trump hosted a dinner for investors in his very own cryptocurrency, with spots at the bash held at the president’s Virginia golf club reportedly costing up to $1.5bn. The secretive bash has prompted objections for all sorts of reasons, from the lack of transparency over those who attended (not made public) and how much Trump himself was making from all this (see previous parentheses).

2 weeks ago | thepoke.com | John Plunkett

Over on Reddit people have been sharing things that feel totally normal in the UK but are a bit of an eye-opener – occasionally a jaw-dropper we tell you – for everyone else after Brilliant_Coat_8636 asked this. ‘What’s something you think is totally normal in the UK but surprises people not from the country because it’s mainly a UK thingy?’Here’s what they offered to kick things off.