“Who made the poorest poorer?” he asked. “Who left youth unemployment higher? Who made inequality greater? No, not the wicked Tories – you, Labour, did this to our society.”

Okay.. granted, I don't know a damn thing about British politics but I would definitely vote for this guy. picked by shuallyo 2 months ago

An earlier version will be going on sale at Sotheby's. Anticipated haul will be $20-30 million, which in my mind means twice that. picked by moe 2 years ago

Pooh the goldfish was callously flushed down the toilet with no concern for his welfare. By some Miracle, he survived his ordeal and was rescued from the sewage plant. picked by 2manyusernames 3 months ago

A woman who claims that hugging her father caused her to get cancer is to sue the Ministry of Defence for £75,000. picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

RNID has made a statement that deaf people should be able to select an embryo that will be born deaf and throw out ones that would be able to hear. RNID does not speak for all deaf people and some are saying that the statement is taken out of context. That they want the right to implant embryos that are deaf when that is the only viable embryo. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

John Smith is Britain's only BSL (British Sign Language) stand-up comedian. There's more to deaf humor than first meets the eye picked by bernardblack 1 year ago

Britain's biggest exam board is embracing censorship. They have removed a poem by Carol Ann Duffy from the GCSE syllabus because it references a knife crime. They have also asked that books containing the poem be destroyed. No word yet, on whether Romeo & Juliet and other works by Shakespeare will also be banned and burned. (see comments for Ms. Duffy's poetic response) picked by bernardblack 1 year ago

Birmingham, England's second-largest city, is going to strip all apostrophes from the city signs, saying they are too much trouble and unnecessary.

Brits, what have you done?! picked by lynxears 10 months ago

Update to this. The couple arrested for public and pre-marital sex really deserve what they hopefully will get. Not only were they warned, but the cops were forced to arrest her because she was yelling and threatening to sue the police in front of the locals who called in the complaint. If she had just shut up, they would have let her and the man she knew for 10 hours go. picked by BernardBlack 1 year ago

A device exploded at a school in Liverpool on Friday, police said, but there were no reports of any injuries. picked by latueofstiberty 2 years ago

Doctors diagnosed Jon Matthews with cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. He was told that he'd probably live less than a year and that the longest anyone lived with his type of cancer was 25 months.

He took that as a challenge and went to a casino, betting that he'd outlive the doctors' predictions. He was given 50-1 odds. And now is the winner of $9,810.38 picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

Yup, he's 60 and still waiting to be king. picked by suebe 1 year ago

Buddhism is the fastest-growing religion in England's jails, with the number of followers rising eightfold over the past decade. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

What is WhatDoTheyKnow for? To help you find out inside information about what the UK government is doing. How does the site work? You choose the public authority that you would like information from, then write a brief note describing what you want to know. We then send your request to the public authority. Any response they make is automatically published on the website for you and anyone e... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

More than 270 pupils from four primary schools in Bedfordshire took part in the East Beds School Sports Partnership Athletics Day. There were no spectators present because it was felt that they only way to ensure a lack of pedophiles would be to ban any adult. not counting the possible pedophile teachers of course picked by bernardblack 5 months ago

A scratch and win card had to be taken off the market due to the people of England's inability to understand numbers. You had to find a lower temperature. The problem is they couldn't understand that -6 is lower than -5. They would insist that 6 is higher than 5, ignoring the numbers. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

"They said my privacy wasn’t intruded on because the surveillance was covert."
That is what a school said to Jenny Paton when they spied on her and her family, phone records and more. Was she suspected of terrorism? No, she was suspected of falsifying her address to enroll her daughter into school. Lucky for her she recycles her trash or it could have been far worse. picked by 2manyusernames 1 month ago

The London Fire Brigade has a rap video to publicize their free smoke alarm give-away. Artist Stephen-remell Coleman is a firefighter on Wimbledon Fire Stations Red Watch, but in his free time performs as a rapper under the name 'Controversy'.

picked by Turtle 2 years ago

Guys, you better remind the ladies in your life that you can still be useful for killing spiders and taking out the trash because soon they will be able to have babies without us. Update to this. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

A driver unfamiliar with the area and relying on navigational equipment took a wrong road back to the hospital. No one knows if the delay contributed to her death - probably it didn't but the family says they'll never know. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago