Politics p.149

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s gammon-fisted take on insurrections and inaugurations will have you facepalming into the next presidency

30p Lee Anderson struck the facepalm motherlode with his claim that coal is sustainable because it’s made from trees

BBC Breakfast’s Sally Nugent went all Jeremy Paxman on health secretary Victoria Atkins and people loved it

Holly Valance’s Tory hot takes made us despair for the satirists – 15 favourite reactions

Liz Truss launched her Popular Conservatism faction with bells and (dog)whistles – 26 votes of no confidence

Donald Trump said windmills kill whales and this 27 seconds of nonsense just gets better and better

Rishi ‘not a betting man’ Sunak was undone by his own words and it’s odds-on today’s most satisfying thing

Rishi Sunak tried to wriggle out of his £1k bet with Piers Morgan and it wasn’t the slam dunk he thought it was

Rishi Sunak accepted a £1k bet from Piers Morgan over Rwanda and the entire internet spoke as one

The news that the UK state pension age may be pushed to 71 has gone down like a bout of lumbago on a building site

Tens of Ann Widdecombe fans turned out to support Reform UK – 12 favourite reactions

Donald Trump thinks he looks like Elvis, and reason has left the building – 15 scathing verdicts

A Republican Senator’s grilling of TikTok’s Singaporean CEO sat on the fence between idiotic and racist

Marjorie Taylor Greene trying to say ‘indictable’ is today’s funniest facepalm

Jacob Rees-Mogg being schooled on his own GB News show about Brexit is quite the watch