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NewsHere are the best tweets about Theresa May's huge Brexit defeat
If you can't laugh, what do you have left?
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NewsIt turns out you've been using your dishwasher wrong all this time
Hear us out
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- Emily Reynolds
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News'I've Pet That Dog' is the wholesome website you need to brighten up your day
Forget Brexit and look at some lovely pooches
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- Dave Fawbert
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NewsThis brilliant diagram shows you everything that could happen after today's Brexit vote
It's all to play for!
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- Dave Fawbert
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NewsThese are officially the 20 most beautiful countries in the world
And the winner is closer to home than you might think
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- Emily Reynolds
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NewsThere's a new most-liked post on Instagram and it's not what you'd expect
An excellent surprise
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- Emily Reynolds
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NewsThe morning routines of these wellness experts are absolutely ridiculous
Morning shot of breast milk, anyone?
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- Emily Reynolds
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NewsQuestion Time audience member goes viral for Theresa May takedown
As comprehensive as you can get
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- Shortlist Team
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NewsThere's bad news on the way for people who rent in London
Abandon hope, all ye who enter the capital
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- Shortlist Team
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NewsAliens are real and coming for us, say scientists (kind of)
Repeated radio signals from deep space could be a sign of a distant civilisation
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- Shortlist Team
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NewsThe 20 best dystopian novels
Welcome to the future: a place where everything has gone very wrong
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- Dave Fawbert
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NewsHere's how to make sure you always leave work on time
WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?
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- Gary Ogden
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NewsHere's when your midlife crisis is going to hit
Start saving for a Harley!
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- Mike Rampton
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NewsThere is a new most retweeted tweet of all time and it's depressingly predictable
Carter the Nuggs guy has lost his record
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- Dave Fawbert
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NewsWhat can you actually get away with in international waters?
And what does that even mean, anyway?
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- Mike Rampton
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NewsThis amazing 'dead leaf butterfly' is nature's greatest illusion yet
This makes no sense at all
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- Shortlist Team
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NewsThis is how to get rid of your Christmas tree in January
It's time to say goodbye, but how?
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- Mike Rampton
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NewsThere's a new 'Laurel or Yanny' debate over whether Grover swore on Sesame Street
Did the legendary puppet really drop the F-bomb?
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- Alexandra Haddow
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NewsA comprehensive list of every time Donald Trump has said someone did something 'like a dog'
Don sure likes to repeat himself LIKE A DOG!
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- Dave Fawbert
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NewsGermany introduces third gender for official documents
A welcome step forward
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- Alexandra Haddow
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OpinionAn irresponsible guide to leaving your tax return until the last minute
Don't even START it until 31 January
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- Gary Ogden
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NewsPolice called to man screaming 'why don't you die?' discover he's shouting at a spider
Justified, on both counts
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- Dave Fawbert
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NewsThese are the celebrities that are going to die in 2019
According to the experts
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- Dave Fawbert
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NewsThis Yorkshire 'drone diversion' story is going to be the greatest Christmas movie ever made
Move over Love Actually
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- Dave Fawbert
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OpinionWhat you can learn about being a man from male escorts
Why are so many high-achieving women paying for the company, comradery and conversation of male escorts? And what are the rest of us getting so wrong?
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- Annie Lord
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NewsHere’s what you’ve all been googling in 2018
The big search engine in the sky has been telling us the answers all year
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- Tom Victor
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OpinionNew Year, New Heroes: Meeting six men trying to make the world a better place in 2019
Want to make a change next year? Follow these guys
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- Bobby Palmer
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OpinionDanny Wallace bids you all a tearful farewell
"Eleven years. 552 issues. Maybe half a million words or more."
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- Danny Wallace
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NewsHere's how to get a flight upgrade, according to those who know best
Follow these steps and you'll be larging it in first class in no time
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- Tom Victor
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OpinionWe asked Satanists to describe their perfect Christmas
Hail Santa!
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- Mike Rampton
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Opinion10 reasons why Santa Claus needs a rebrand in 2018
Santa's not built for 2018, he needs an upgrade
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- Mike Rampton
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Opinion"I was crawling around with my stomach distended”: The unsettling but lucrative world of cam boys
Antisocial hours. Isolation from family and friends. Perversions to satisfy. Why put yourself through it?
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- Annie Lord
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NewsEverything you'd forgotten happened in 2018
How is this all less than a year old?
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- Tom Victor
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OpinionThis is how to avoid getting fired for your work Christmas party behaviour
An open bar isn't a free pass
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- Tom Victor
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OpinionDanny Wallace on the art of leaving a Christmas do early
“I act like i’m keen to mingle, and then I just go to the pub or for a burrito”
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- Danny Wallace
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News'The New York Times' asked for examples of petty crime in London and Londoners responded hilariously
"A chimney sweep stole my whippet!"
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- Harvey Day
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NewsThere's a very strange new trend predicted in baby names for 2019
Seriously?
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- Shortlist Team
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NewsThese are the new things that make you posh (or not), according to 'Tatler'
Are you into Sweden, bread and having a job? Then you're posh!
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- Shortlist Team
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OpinionA comprehensive account of exactly how drunk Santa would get on Christmas Eve
How many sherries could he realistically handle?
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- Gary Ogden
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NewsThis is, by far, the most unnerving video of 'Theresa May' you'll ever see
Theresa May + Gollum = Genuinely really scary
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- Harvey Day
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NewsI lost my mind in Lapland searching for the spirit of Christmas
Oobah Butler takes the slow train north in a quest for festive enlightenment
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- Oobah Butler
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NewsWarren Buffett names the most important thing to do to increase your net worth
The multi-billionaire thinks one thing is especially important
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- Tom Victor
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OpinionDanny Wallace on the downsides of dining alone
"People will think, 'Look at that strange man eating alone at 5pm"
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- Danny Wallace
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OpinionWhat happened when I spoke out about having bulimia
One man opens up about his struggle
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- Lloyds Bank
NewsGuy goes hang gliding. Realises he's not strapped in. Immediately regrets going hang gliding
No, just no
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- Shortlist Team
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NewsHere's how much more expensive your train tickets are going to be next year
More bad news for commuters
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- Harvey Day
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NewsThe Porsche-designed washing machine we didn't know we needed
You read that right - a Porsche washing machine
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- Shortlist Team
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Opinion“About as fertile ground as it's possible to get for a fascist”: James O’Brien on Britain in 2018
The Brexiteer-battling radio host on positive patriotism, the far right and what we should do next
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- Tristan Cross
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Opinion"Millennials know what this country should stand for”: David Lammy rebrands Britain
We met with MP for Tottenham David Lammy to rethink what it is we want to be known for
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- Matt Blake
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