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The King's sister Princess Anne has named Tom Daley and Helen Glover as Great Britain's official flag bearers at the 2024 Paris Olympics which start this week. It's not a long journey for the British team - just 20 miles over the Channel is all the journey took. The Princess Royal, who is...

A new portrait of Prince George has been released for his 11th birthday. Prince George was born on 22nd July 2013 and is the eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the eldest grandchild of King Charles III and Princess Diana. He is second in line to the Throne after his father...

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy is on a two-day visit to India as the two Commonwealth allies aim to forge an even closer relationship. Lammy held talks with his Indian counterpart Jaishankar in Indian capital New Delhi. India, which gained her independence from Britain in 1947 and is...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage MP has accused the House of Commons of being more Remainer than the European Parliament... https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Lpwy3XKIl0M

HATE preacher Anjem Choudary is facing a life sentence after being found guilty today of masterminding an outlawed group. The 57-year-old is the first-ever Brit to be convicted for membership of the extremist Islamic group al-Muhajiroun (ALM) under Britain’s anti-terror laws. Here he is being...

Erasure - "Lay All Your Love On Me" (1992) The British electro-poppers brought out the sounds of the era's video games as they covered the Swedish band ABBA's 1981 hit

What do they do? Whilst the PM runs the country the monarch is still the boss. King Charles III can get rid of Starmer or Trudeau whenever he feels necessary, as his mother Queen Elizabeth II got rid of the Australian government in the 1970s...

Yeah. I was a bit confused as I sat there yesterday afternoon watching the match. I had no idea what was going on and how the scoring system works but as I watched I gradually figured it out (see if you can figure it out). Hurling is one of three sports administered by the GAA in the Republic...

GAA All-Ireland Final Clare 3-29 - Cork 1-34 Clare win by a point Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 82,300 Ireland's biggest sporting event of each year took place yesterday as the counties of Clare and Cork took on each other in Irish hurling's equivalent of the FA Cup Final or the Super...

Also recently: A Corporal of the King's Guard warned tourists: "Don't touch my horses again". If you can't get near their horses you ain't getting anywhere near the King...

Two days ago armed Metropolitan Police officers confronted a group of young Middle Easterners as they disrespected a King's Guard in London. The foreigners were made to leave. This goes on a lot. Don't mess with these guys. Those London cops were a class act, by the way. Shame on their teacher.

Back in March an armed Metropolitan Police officer confronted a group of American tourists after they heckled a King's guard in London. In a video that appeared on TikTok the young Americans (judging by their accent) shouted out names to the King's guard hoping for a reaction. And they did...

I don't think he said a word. I'm surprised the King's Guard let the woman get so close to him without saying anything. Usually when someone gets too close to them they bellow out to them to back off. It's usually foreign tourists who think the soldiers and horses are for show rather than...

This... ... is like when Emu attacked Michael Parkinson in 1976... It's fucking hilarious. Don't anger a King's horse and don't anger Emu. That's the motto of today's story.

In a comical moment in the House of Commons today, Prime Minister Keir Starmer mistakenly called Leader of the Opposition Rishi Sunak "Prime Minister" when discussing Ukraine. Poor Rishi and the Tories. They may not have found it so funny.

Slipknot - "The Dying Song" (2022)

No. I'm 43 on Thursday 25th July, which means I was 18 when I first started listening to them in late 1999.

Slipknot lead singer Corey Taylor has appeared - without his mask - on a recent episode of British comedy celebrity gameshow QI, hosted by the Danish-born British comedienne Sandi Toksvig. Appropriately, he answered a question about a Belfast woman who has a voice even louder than his.

Slipknot - "Yen" (2019) The American/British heavy metallers, who hail from Des Moines, Iowa, have a British bassist and a turntablist who was born in the USA but whose parents are British and who visits his grandmother in Portsmouth every year. Lead singer Corey Taylor is an Anglophile and Dr...