Politics p.12

A pilot used their flight path to draw a bin off the coast of Clacton, and won the unofficial by-election campaign originality award

A bigot called into LBC from the 1950s to say Wes Streeting shouldn’t be the Defence Secretary because he’s gay, if you were wondering why Pride is still needed

Talk TV’s Alex Phillips had a hysterical rant over Andy Burnham’s campaign image, and got ‘dragged’ from Manchester to London – 17 favourite clapbacks

Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed’s savage response to Trump’s racist jibe at him and his wife wins Burn of the Week – and it’s only Monday

Nigel Farage ‘thought resigning would end the Parliamentary Standards investigation’, and there’s not enough facepalm in the world – 17 top takedowns

A reporter asked Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed about how Trump said “he’s full of sh*t” and Abdul’s absolutely savage comeback is one for the ages

Primary schools in England will be told to identify “children at risk of future unemployment” – 18 savage responses in a class of their own

Reform UK councillors in Kent wanted the national anthem played at the end of council meetings, but it blew up in their faces in the most hilariously petty way

Donald Trump’s latest excuse for staying out of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is about as flimsy and convincing as, say, an ill-fitting hairpiece

A lifelong Trump voter said he felt ‘totally betrayed’ after ICE detained his Venezuelan fiancée and the entirety of the internet responded as one

Alastair Campbell tried to get one over on Count Binface only to fall flat on his face and a very satisfying watch it is too

Reform UK’s so-called Shadow Home Secretary proudly announced their tough new policy on illegal working, but it’s already the law – 18 massive facepalms

JD Vance tried to scare voters away from Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate and it said so much more about the VP than it did anyone else

Donald Trump says tariffs made ‘us’ rich and basically the entire internet responded as one

Count Binface just released his party election broadcast for the Clacton by-election and it’s precisely what Nigel Farage deserved