Some of Tim Walz’s family proudly posed in support of Donald Trump and it was a hilarious self-own visible from space
Editor-in-chief, The Poke
Editor-in-chief, The Poke
- John has spent three decades writing about TV, media and popular culture. As broadcasting correspondent of the Guardian he spent many happy years presenting the paper’s MediaTalk podcast, interviewing the likes of Matt Berry, Armando Iannucci and Charlie Brooker.
- A former chairman of the television critics association, the Broadcasting Press Guild, he presented their annual awards ceremony and has a whole bunch of photos of him standing next to A-list celebrities (pictures available on request).
- He has also hosted events for Bafta and the Edinburgh TV Festival, and chaired the press jury prize at the Rose d’Or entertainment festival in Montreux.
Experience
John spent nearly 20 years at the Guardian, first as a freelance and then as a staff member on the Media Guardian team, editing the paper’s Media Monkey diary column. He first started writing about the television business at Broadcast magazine, before joining Heat and (briefly) The Sun. He began his career in local newspapers at the Medway News in Kent and the Norwich Evening News. He has only done stand-up twice and on one of those occasions he was fortunate enough to share the bill with Greg Davies and Rhod Gilbert (before they were famous, obviously).Education
John has an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University.People are sharing their ‘goofiest low stakes conspiracy theories’ and these 19 eye-openers will have you believing
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Andrew Tate gave people an insight into his ‘ultimate man cave’ and of all the comebacks Paul Sinha surely said it best
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Richard Tice claimed he totally owned Ed Miliband with this Commons Q&A and it’s the least self-aware thing you’ll see this year
Richard Tice’s renewables ‘gotcha’ blew up in his face and Ed Miliband’s takedown was simply electric
Nadhim Zahawi tweeted a photo of a homeless person lying in the street and Deborah Meaden’s response surely spoke for us all
This video of a furiously impatient New Yorker went wildly viral and Londoners have never related to an American so much
This JD Vance handshake didn’t go entirely to plan and it’s surely the most embarrassing greeting you’ll ever see
Kemi Badenoch kicked off her Tory leadership bid by taking aim at David Tennant and was owned into the next dimension
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