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Mikey Smith
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Deputy Political Editor at the Sunday Mirror
Politics, gossip, intrigue
(Fuelled by coffee, rollercoasters, The Wildhearts and The Washington Wizards)
Things that occur in Netflix's The Sneetches and also in Chunky Chimp (the parody kids movie in Bluey), but not in Dr Seuss' The Sneetches:

• The protagonist is told to "just be yourself"
• A thunderstorm
• Protagonist saves the village from said thunderstorm using a vehicle of their own design
December 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Takes a special kind of arrogance to look at the Sneetches, one of the all time greatest children’s political satires, and think “yeah, I reckon we can do better than that. Tear it up and start again.”

The new Netflix “version” is a non-ironic Chunky Chimp. Awful.
December 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Word to the wise. Don’t imagine you can get ChatGPT 5.2 to work out your Christmas Dinner timings. It is bad at it.

(And most other things tbh)
December 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Terribly sad news about Adam the Woo. Thoughts with his family.
December 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Unless something incredibly dramatic happens between now and January 1st, this is probably my last Trump roundup of 2025. What a year.

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Donald Trump unhinged latest: Disappearing Epstein photos and a dementia giraffe
For our last unhinged roundup of 2025, Trump treated us with some genuinely mad ramblings about giraffes and literally looting $1 billion from the government to line his own pockets. Here's what you n...
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December 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Donald Trump's Justice Department quietly deletes only photo of him from Epstein files dump
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Trump's Justice team quietly deletes only photo of him from Epstein files dump
The photo was included in the disclosure which went live on Friday evening, but had been removed from both the website links and downloadable zip file at some point on Saturday
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December 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
There is another picture of Donald Trump in last night's Epstein Files release...but you have to look really close

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Donald Trump in another Epstein files photo - but you have to look really close
The Justice Department's limited disclosure of files related to the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein hardly included any new information about his friendship with the President - unless you look ver...
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December 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Donald Trump's unhinged latest: Lawbreaking, the Epstein files and a wild website error
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Trump's unhinged latest: Lawbreaking, the Epstein files and a wild website error
By midnight tonight, the Trump administration has to release the Epstein Files, with minimal redactions. If it doesn't it will be breaking the law. Of course, they aren't going to, and there will almo...
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December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
No10 has sneaked out, at 4.50pm on the last day before Christmas, that they are cancelling the daily afternoon lobby briefing for journalists.
And they'll sometimes be cancelling the morning one too, to in favour of a televised press conference, to which "content creators" will be invited.
December 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Donald Trump lied once every 22 second in his address to the nation. #9 is probably the biggest lie...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Nobody had this on their bingo card...

• Susie Wiles in SHOCK that reporter wrote down and published things she told him
• Holy hell, those photos
• He genuinely thinks stealth planes are invisible
• Is he planning to demolish more things?
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December 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Donald Trump's team in chaos over top aide's explosive interview on Epstein, alcohol and Elon Musk
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Trump team chaos over top aide's wild interview on Epstein, alcohol and Elon
Susie Wiles posted on X for the first time in more than a year in order to push back against Vanity Fair's profile of her - an indication the article is sparking tumult inside the White House
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December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This was a BIG mistake...

• Republicans did NOT like his Rob Reiner comments
• But he somehow made them even worse
• He filed his $10bn BBC lawsuit
• And entered a Liz Truss quote as evidence
• he kind of shrugged about the Brown shooting
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December 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Incidentally, Rob Reiner's JFK podcast is really good.
December 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
He probably thought he had another week before he had to think about Epstein again...

• Epstein files show people engaging in sexual acts
• Also Trump condoms and Trumpkins
• Trump takes the Fawlty Towers defence
• Also, he put on a cowboy hat
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Donald Trump's unhinged latest: Cowboy hats, condoms and more Epstein files
Donald Trump probably thought he had another week before he had to deal with Epstein again - now he'll have to deal with a drip-drip release of photos for weeks
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December 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
New Jeffrey Epstein photo trove includes pictures of men 'engaged in sexual acts'
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New Epstein photo trove includes pictures of men 'engaged in sexual acts'
Virginia Democrat Suhas Subramanyam said the cache of 95,000 photos, found in the home of America's most notorious paedophile, said there were "a lot of people involved in some of these acts"
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December 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Donald Trump breaks silence on photos of him being in bombshell new Epstein files
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Trump breaks silence on photos of him being in bombshell new Epstein files
The US President dismissed the significance of photos of him being in a trove of Jeffrey Epstein's photos after more lurid images were published by congress
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December 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
10 unhinged Trump moments as new Epstein files show him partying with women
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December 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Donald Trump pictured with unidentified women in newly published Jeffrey Epstein photos
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Donald Trump pictured with unidentified women in newly published Epstein photos
In one picture, Donald Trump is seen with his shirt partially unbuttoned, posing with his arm around five young women with their faces obscured
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December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Donald Trump health update as Karoline Leavitt gives excuse for mystery bandages
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Donald Trump health update as Karoline Leavitt gives excuse for mystery bandages
Trump has previously covered the bruising on his hand up with makeup concealer - but in recent weeks he's been spotted with sticking plasters over the purple discolouration on his hand
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December 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
When will Donald Trump have crossed enough lines for someone to stand up to him?

• Kristi Noem heckled - Have you no shame?
• The MyPillow guy is running
• ICE kidnap an innocent US citizen for looking Somali
• There's Gold in them thar cards
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December 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
GB News' fawning Donald Trump interview reported to Ofcom over 'scum' and 'hoax' claims
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GB News' fawning Donald Trump interview reported to Ofcom
Campaign group 38 Degrees delivered the complaint after more than 65,000 people signed a petition demanding an investigation into whether the interview broke impartiality rules
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December 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
He gave a racist speech to a smallish crowd, and told struggling Americans to buy fewer toys for their kids.

Welcome to Donald Trump's Affordability tour 2025

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December 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Turns out a few wars Trump says he's 'ended' haven't actually ended

• He has another pop at Sadiq Khan
• Two of the wars he "ended" are very much still happening
• But it's OK, Pete Hegseth is giving soldiers Google AI
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December 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM