Society

The killjoy realist's guide to why the energy bill drop will make f**k all difference

THRILLED at the idea of energy bills tumbling by the unimaginable sum of £426 a year? Calm down. Miserable realist Martin Bishop explains why it will change nothing.

'I'm a bit overstretched' and other diplomatic ways to say you can't be arsed

BEING asked to do actual work? Then you get home and a friend only wants to go out for a f**king drink? Get out of it with these befogging phrases.

To summon the goddess Eris: the real reasons women go to the bathroom in groups

CURIOUS as to why women scuttle off to the bathroom in groups of eight? Wondering what they really get up to in there? Find out here.

Six luxuries of the poor, from phones to cheese. By Ann Widdecombe

POOR people should not have anything that make life enjoyable, and that includes food. Here is Ann Widdecombe’s guide to what they don’t deserve.

'We're only three hours from London' and other bizarre boasts Northerners make

SALT-of-the-earth Northerners hate showing off. Yeah, right. Here are some of the weirder humblebrags about the North they're inexplicably proud of.

Five professions you're uneasy with being younger than you

FEELING your age? Trying to believe you’re still youthful until you’re forced to interact with these mere children?

It’s Always Pissing Down in Cumbria: the tourism slogans of 21 English counties

AS a summer of supporting our glorious Brexit by holidaying domestically looms, choose your destination by its honesty.

Bolton dad takes family to London to show them how much it costs

A FATHER from Lancashire has taken his family to London for the day so they can see the incredible prices.

Renting is dead money, says landlord of 18 properties

A LANDLORD who owns 18 properties thinks renting is nothing more than throwing money down the drain.

Let's not do anything like that again as long as you live, says grateful nation

THE UK has asked the King to not put them through a weekend of pageantry like that for at least another 25 years.