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Great expectations of a Wagatha sequel

Brief letters: Vardy v Rooney | Grammar schools | Backing the birch | Truss v Neil | More flushing advice

The Guardian - UK · Jul 31, 2022

Newcastle's historic Alderman Fenwick’s House opens a cafe selling coffee and luxury ice cream

The 17th Century Alderman Fenwick’s House teams up with Caffe Ginevra to sell home-made ice cream, Sicilian coffee and cannoli

Chronicle Live · Jul 23, 2022

Jessie Buckley to star in Netflix animation Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

The Oscar-nominated actress will once again lend her voice to the new project

Irish Mirror · Jul 20, 2022

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: class prejudices, the convict stain and a corpse-bride

In our Guide to the classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

The Conversation · May 24, 2022

Schools don’t need to bin Shakespeare – but it’s time for us to teach him differently

Decolonising the curriculum doesn’t mean losing traditional texts, but studying the power imbalances my pupils already experience, says secondary school teacher Nadeine Asbali

The Guardian - UK · May 24, 2022

Gentleman Jack: Suranne Jones hints a third series might be in the works

We’re keeping our fingers crossed

Evening Standard · May 23, 2022

From Dover’s cliffs to degraded porn: the astonishing alchemy of Cornelia Parker – review

This fabulous survey of her 40-year career has everything from soiled hankies to exploding sheds, as well as a vampire-like Margaret Thatcher – confirming Parker’s genius for finding poetry in the world around us

The Guardian - UK · May 17, 2022

Why does truth not seem to matter in India anymore?

Dickens could not have imagined how accurately he would be describing the world more than a hundred and fifty years later. For today we do live in a world where it is at once the best of times and the worst of times, where vaccines work and don’t work, millions…

Newslaundry · May 12, 2022

The Palace Papers by Tina Brown review – the good, the bad and the indefensible

It’s hard to look away as Tina Brown delves into decades’ worth of royal scandals

The Guardian - UK · Apr 23, 2022

Londoner’s Diary: Penguin bars causing a p-p-p-problem for PM

BORIS JOHNSON has a lot on his plate at the moment, but it seems another photo is coming back to bite him. Last summer, the Prime Minister exchanged Penguin bars for Tim Tams with his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison as they posed for a photo-op after signing a post-Brexit trade…

Evening Standard · Apr 22, 2022