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Tonight's of those nights when it’s worrying to check the Internet. I can't bear the thought of waking up to the news that Trump is US president. I can’t even understand how we’ve reached the point when a man with such obvious glaring faults and ignorance could be the best Republican candidate. I watched all three presidential debates and it was painfully evident that he’s incapable of making a cogent point; his sentences veer this way and that without reaching an end that relates to their beginning. He’s a bully, a sexist and a fantasist, who needs to be told that the true meaning of the word ‘rigged’ isn’t just 'something you don't agree with'. I only hope the people of America see sense, but then I’d hoped the same with us during the EU referendum. That happened to land on the same day as a Mostly Comedy with the left-leaning Norman Lovett and Stewart Lee on the bill, which lulled me into a false sense of security, only to wa...

After stumbling across this terrifying piece of magazine-based toilet art, I’ll never look at Hillary Clinton the same way again. It currently resides in the gents’ toilet of our shared office building. The magazines that make up its constituent parts have lived there for as long as we've rented it. Every time I go to the loo, I’m confronted with Hillary Clinton and Pippa Middleton’s faces smiling up at me; so much so that I live in fear of the reflex action my bowels would take if I ever met them. This is why I’ll never participate in a state or royal visit.   (‎ Not that either option applies in this instance.)   While the composite image may be unsavoury (what's Hillary doing with her right hand?) you can't help but admire the handiwork. It shows commitment. Whoever created it clearly has talent, which belies their slightly distorted view of the next potential U.S. President. I can't see the picture helping her campaign - though outside of this blog, th...