Someone told their anti-woke cousin it’s woke to add beans to chilli, and the internet enjoyed it much more than the furious cousin
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Writer
- Oonagh Keating is fascinated with politics because it’s the only soap opera where Peggy Mitchell could triple the cost of your mortgage in an afternoon.
- Her obsession with Columbo has yet to earn her a spot on Mastermind, but makes watching old films with her impossible as she insists on pointing out Columbo actors.
- Writing about viral content and comedy has ruined her targeted ads forever.
Experience
Oonagh has dabbled in writing for money since the 1980s, but finally gave up her Olympic cycling dreams and turned fully professional in 2013 – partly because she doesn’t own a bike. Her writing work includes jokes for greetings cards, ghostwriting food and travel blogs and at least three articles entitled ‘What has the EU ever done for us?’. She was offered two weeks’ work at the Poke in 2018 and has refused to leave ever since.Education
Oonagh graduated with a BA (Hons) in Maths Education from Liverpool Hope University.Watch the TUC share Nigel Farage’s voting record with his Clacton constituents and torch their ‘man-of-the-people’ view of him
Trump’s claim that people are golfing when they’re supposed to be working from home is a self-own visible from space
Kid Rock storming off in a huff because the audience didn’t clap enough is peak MAGA snowflakery
Richard Gere calling Trump ‘a bully and a thug’ in his warning about authoritarianism is today’s must-watch moment
Liz Truss is truly clutching at straws with her latest excuse for the Tory election disaster – and her reasoning sucks
The Governor of Illinois is ‘changing the name of Lake Michigan to Lake Illinois’, and we can’t think where he got that idea
The Church of England wants the public to suggest names for the next Archbishop of Canterbury – Will they never learn?
A Reform UK MP said multilingual signs should be banned, and the internet told him where to go – 19 top reactions
William Shatner’s stinging response to an AI ‘artist’ had the internet cheering all the way to the final frontier
Donald Trump has set up a task force to tackle all the ‘anti-Christian bias’ he claims is happening – 16 top responses
Someone asked a TikTokker if he could tell whether a parachuting camel video was AI, and he got the hump in the funniest way
This doctor’s savage takedown of an anti-vaxxer is so good it should be available on the NHS
The face of Trump’s Chief of Staff as he announced plans to take over Gaza said everything that needs to be said
Alleged non-interventionist Donald Trump says the US is taking over the Gaza Strip, and Palestinians should live elsewhere
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