Politics
Jacob Rees-Mogg had Michael Heseltine on GB News and was owned so brutally it was like an especially gruesome kill on a David Attenborough documentary
John Plunkett
Editor-in-chief, The Poke
John Plunkett
Editor-in-chief, The Poke
- John has spent three decades writing about TV, media and popular culture. As broadcasting correspondent of the Guardian he spent many happy years presenting the paper’s MediaTalk podcast, interviewing the likes of Matt Berry, Armando Iannucci and Charlie Brooker.
- A former chairman of the television critics association, the Broadcasting Press Guild, he presented their annual awards ceremony and has a whole bunch of photos of him standing next to A-list celebrities (pictures available on request).
- He has also hosted events for Bafta and the Edinburgh TV Festival, and chaired the press jury prize at the Rose d’Or entertainment festival in Montreux.
Experience
John spent nearly 20 years at the Guardian, first as a freelance and then as a staff member on the Media Guardian team, editing the paper’s Media Monkey diary column. He first started writing about the television business at Broadcast magazine, before joining Heat and (briefly) The Sun. He began his career in local newspapers at the Medway News in Kent and the Norwich Evening News. He has only done stand-up twice and on one of those occasions he was fortunate enough to share the bill with Greg Davies and Rhod Gilbert (before they were famous, obviously).Education
John has an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University.US
Marjorie Taylor Greene suffered severe buyer’s remorse after not bothering to read Donald Trump’s bill and was mocked into next year
Politics
Nigel Farage’s been celebrating a year since he led Reform UK into the election and this is surely the only response you need
US
Karoline Leavitt was asked for Trump’s reaction to the South Korea election results and her response is a devastating snapshot of how the White House works right now
Politics
This Reform UK council leader was asked if their DOGE teams really were working for free and his fabulous self-own speaks volumes
Politics
Nigel Farage was magnificently fact checked to his face and it had people cheering – 13 favourite responses
Politics
There was something missing from Reform’s bid to ‘do a DOGE’ on Kent County Council and these people surely said it best
Weird World
A spoof ‘RAF’ post about a fighter jet painted pink for Pride had blue ticks foaming at the mouth – 9 hilariously misguided responses
Politics
Reform UK said it was going to do an Elon Musk-style ‘DOGE’ on Kent County Council and these 14 comebacks surely said it best
Politics
Susanna Reid spotted an epic fail in Robert Jenrick’s video of ‘fare dodgers’ on the Tube and brutally owned him into next year
US
Elon Musk refused to answer a reporter’s questions if they weren’t about ‘spaceships’ and these 14 A++ comebacks were out of this world
US
Karoline Leavitt said it was ‘absurd’ to suggest Donald Trump profited from his presidency and it was a chinny reckon visible from space
Life
People shared things that feel normal in the UK but totally weird out everyone else – 19 uniquely British traits
US
The White House was called out over Donald Trump’s fake news and Karoline Leavitt’s furious response just made the whole thing even better
US
Donald Trump tried to give South Africa’s president the Zelenskyy treatment and it blew up in his face – 13 totally bang-on responses