This classic clip of a German reporter demonstrating how to cross the traffic-heavy Place de la Concorde is a real edge-of-your-seat watch
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- 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.The Republican Party presented Trump with the new America First Award, and there’s not enough cringe in the world to cope with it
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Karoline Leavitt said “If you heard it from the president …obviously it’s true”, and the chinny reckon was visible from the Kremlin – 18 frank fact-checks
An American journalist got his regnal numbers mixed up and made a right Charlie of himself – 19 historic reactions
Donald Trump claims Iran gave him a very expensive present, but you don’t know it because it goes to another school – 22 generous helpings of chinny reckon
Ant Middleton fell for an obviously fake Keanu Reeves account’s anti-woke message, and went straight into public ownership – 17 savage takedowns
The Daily Show hilariously savaged Trump’s talk of a US golden age with some very inconvenient truths
Robert Jenrick got called out for politically exploiting Christianity after writing about ‘Psalm Sunday’ – 24 biblical takedowns
Kemi Badenoch went full Farage with her claim that a pledge to lower tax didn’t mean it would actually go down – 18 sceptical side-eyes
Trump casually asked at Graceland if he could have ‘taken’ Elvis in a fight, if you were wondering how his laser focus on the war was going – 15 swift smackdowns
A French general declared on live TV that Trump could ‘go F___ himself’, and the internet thought it was absolument magnifique
Reform announced that Nigel Farage’s election campaign trail will bring him ‘to a town near you’, and everybody had the same thought – 15 spoiled ballots
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