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1 week ago | 
thepoke.com | Oonagh Keating
If you’ve been on the internet for more than half an hour in the past few days, you’ve almost certainly seen at least one clip of the Cooper’s Hill cheese-rolling event in Gloucestershire, and it probably involved one competitor practically going into orbit.
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1 week ago | 
thepoke.com | Oonagh Keating
Elon Musk’s 130 days as a Special Government Employee have now ended, although it’s unlikely to shut down the questions and controversies surrounding what exactly Doge has or hasn’t achieved. BREAKING: Elon Musk leaves the Trump administration after turbulent effort to slash government. https://t.co/zufg0NulfT— The Associated Press (@AP) May 29, 2025He shared the news on Twitter, or X, or whatever you want to call it.
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1 week ago | 
thepoke.com | Oonagh Keating
The US Secretary of Health and Human Services, the anti-vaxxer and Covid conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr – RFK Jr to his friends and the roadkill cookery class he probably goes to when he isn’t out dumping dead bears in parks – has been making some bold decisions on how the department runs, and what it will and won’t endorse. BREAKING: RFK Jr and the CDC have pulled the COVID vaccine from the immunization schedule for healthy kids and pregnant women.
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1 week ago | 
thepoke.com | Oonagh Keating
Texas lawmakers have passed a bill that makes it compulsory for classrooms to display the Ten Commandments. You have to love that good old US separation of church and state, right?
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1 week ago | 
thepoke.com | Oonagh Keating
You can’t have missed the months of Donald Trump’s flip-flopping over tariffs on just about every country in the world – not Russia, obviously – but particularly on Canada, Mexico and China. It seems that Wall Street has even coined a phrase to describe how it’s handled the instability.
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1 week ago | 
thepoke.com | Oonagh Keating
We’re beginning to wonder if Donald Trump’s word blindness could be contagious, because his Press Secretary – Disinformation Barbie, otherwise known as Karoline Leavitt – has joined in the fun. Here she is, defending the government’s attempt to defund Harvard. It’s a heady mix of casual homophobia, disinformation, and word salad. Leavitt: "Electricians, plumbers — we need more of those in our country, and less LGBTQ graduate majors from Harvard University.
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1 week ago | 
thepoke.com | Oonagh Keating
Despite it being four more years to the next election, Nigel Farage is clearly in full campaign mode. Oddly, doing a good job as the MP for Clacton isn’t part of that campaign, so he’d better find a constituency he can be bothered with if he plans to be the next PM.
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1 week ago | 
thepoke.com | Oonagh Keating
Memorial Day is the most solemn day in the US Forces calendar. It’s a day on which the whole country honours those who have lost their lives in the service of the United States of America, and the President plays a big part in the commemorations. Even former presidents mark the important occasion with sobre messages. On Memorial Day, let us pause to remember and honor the brave women and men who made the ultimate sacrifice so we could live our lives in peace and possibility.
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1 week ago | 
thepoke.com | Oonagh Keating
Kemi Badenoch’s media round on Sunday came with a side of public humiliation, served up by Sky’s Trevor Phillips. Watch how it unfolded. #TrevorPhillips: You're 12 points adrift of Reform in the polls & there's gossip amongst your back benchers… Kemi Badenoch: "People have always underestimated me… look where I am now.." TP: 12 points adrift in the polls, that's where you are.
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1 week ago | 
thepoke.com | Oonagh Keating
Nothing to see here – apart from Donald Trump once more stumbling over his words. The US President was speaking on Memorial Day – which is dedicated to members of the armed forces who have died while serving – and he got into quite a muddle over the job title of one of the servicepeople. Trump: Cryptolologic pic.twitter.com/sYaKNHwhhh— Acyn (@Acyn) May 26, 2025That should have been ‘cryptologic technician’, in case you were wondering. It wasn’t quite covfefe, but it fired up the internet. 1.
