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Our new favourite Twitter account is President Supervillain! https://twitter.com/PresVillain/status/834470392890785792 Comic writer and editor D.M. Higgins has used President Trump's own words to great comic effect by sticking them in the speech bubbles of classic sinister comic supervillians. https://twitter.com/PresVillain/status/833365274078363649 And within just a fortnight the Twitter account has amassed a cosmic 29.7K followers! https://twitter.com/PresVillain/status/832311031124856832 It's pretty sinister how easily The Donald's words transfer into comic book villains' mouths - whether demented rants at press conferences and rallies: https://twitter.com/PresVillain/status/832333550716387328 or malevolent policy threats that have slipped...

Space transport services company SpaceX is to launch its first commercial flight to the moon next year. The company has announced it has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year, with the punters paying a significant deposit to land a moon mission. The Falcon Heavy rocket, which was developed with SpaceX funding, is due to launch its first test flight this summer and, if successful, will be the most powerful vehicle to reach...

First aid experts have warned of the dangers of flipping pancakes ahead of Pancake Day - with tips including "dialling 999 or 112 for emergency medical help" in cases of serious injury. St John Ambulance issued tips for people ahead of one of the most perilous nights of the year, including moving away from the hot area if you get burnt. With millions of Brits across the country making their annual attempt to look culinarily proficient, the plaster dispensers have set out...

Former PM Sir John Major didn’t pull any punches when he attacked the current government’s plan for a hard Brexit. Major believes that her pursuit of a quick Brexit at all costs will harm the NHS and working people. Major said “whole communities” could be worse off and could suffer for years and could put extra pressure on the NHS, already at breaking point with the Red Cross recently claiming the health service was suffering a “humanitarian crisis.” There are...

Donald Trump has set out plans to increase defence spending by a whopping $54 billion as foreign assistance and environmental budgets are slashed. His proposed budget plan for 2018 sees a historically-high nine per cent increase in defence spending, with deep cuts elsewhere, although Social Security and Medicare were left untouched. "We're going to do more with less and make the government lean and accountable," Trump said in a meeting with governors at the White House on Monday. The budget will...

Another day another Tory belittles the poor and in need, it didn’t make much difference to the vote in Copeland, but these comments will disgust many. Policy chief George Freeman, said that benefits should only be given to the ‘really disabled’ and not to people who suffer with anxiety. He has faced a huge backlash and now he has said that he ‘hugely regrets’ his remarks. It is unknown if he would have apologised if he hadn’t faced a massive...

Honouring Sir Gerald Kaufman MP who has died aged 86, many tributes today mention the pugnacity as well as intellectual might, influence, length of career, kindness and concern for those most marginalised by society of the outspoken former frontbencher. The controversial Labour was unafraid to tell truth to power even if that occasionally meant embarrassing powerful officials who came before the committees he served in, figures in his own party, or sometimes fellow members of Britain's Jewish community with whom he...

Not great news for 16-18-year-olds hoping to get some decent A-levels, as the government has decided that ensuring this age group gets good grades had taken a back seat, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Money has recently been clawed back from schools, after the government ditched its plan to make every school an academy and decided that the funding should be returned to central government rather than used in other areas of the educational system. Now the think-tank...

British Airways has held off Apple, Microsoft and PayPal to be crowned the top business superbrand of 2017. Despite successive strikes making the headlines and unpredictable poll results disrupting the economy BA was ranked top in a survey of marketing experts and thousands of British business professionals. The airline outperformed nearly 1,500 others in the sixteenth annual poll, with Apple retaining second spot and, in its strongest performance since 2011, US tech giant Microsoft moving up to third. Fellow US tech giants, PayPal...