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Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one?

From the pompous vanity of Sir Walter Elliot in Persuasion (1817), to the shallow reading habits of Isabella in Northanger Abbey (1817), few characters in the works of Jane Austen are spared the gentle satire of her famously ironic narrative voice. Similarly, some of her best remembered characters, like Elizabeth…

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Alan Strachan obituary

Director in the West End and regional theatre for five decades who often worked with the playwright Alan Ayckbourn

The Guardian - UK

Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: desperate rich people

Each year, hundreds of potentially world-changing treatments are discarded because scientists run out of cash. But where big pharma or altruists fear to tread, my friend and I have a solution. It’s repugnant, but it will work

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Trolling feels like a new phenomenon. But it existed long before the internet

Trolling on the internet looks and feels like a new phenomenon. Abuse can rain down on a target instantly and from everywhere, in quantities never before seen. But as David Rudrum’s engaging book on the history of trolling shows, the desire to hurt or distract another with words goes back…

The Conversation

Poem of the week: The Day of Judgement by Jonathan Swift

The stinging wit of the great satirist is at its scalding best in this nightmarish fantasy of the end of days

The Guardian - UK

Teaching Digital Citizenship and Literacy to Families and the School Community

By prioritizing digital citizenship and literacy, we can prepare our students and their families to navigate the digital world responsibly and safely.

Tech&Learning

Ex-Post Office chair expresses ‘sincere regret’ over Horizon scandal

Tim Parker tells inquiry the firm relied too heavily on lawyers and should have shown key report to the board

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Not Even Artificial Intelligence Can Make Central Planning Work

Revolutionary AI technologies can't solve the 'wicked problems' facing policy makers.

Reason

Tristram Powell obituary

TV director who made dramas by some of the top screenwriters of the 1980s and 90s, such as Alan Bennett and Alan Plater

The Guardian - UK

Let’s turn the air blue, girls – we should be free to curse at will

Women’s body parts have long been appropriated for the purpose of cursing, so it’s only right that we reclaim them with profane gusto

The Guardian - UK

Rude MPs, winning books and duos falling out – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m staggered this isn’t front-page news’: the ‘provocative’ climate art that ended up in a cathedral

Inspired by global warming and the refugees who lost their lives trying to reach Europe, Shezad Dawood’s work asks difficult questions. How will it go down in church?

The Guardian - UK

Shock of the old: eight abandoned and appalling theme parks

From animatronic cowboys to hungry alligators, there is nothing quite so creepy as a derelict funfair

The Guardian - UK

Is Irish literature too ‘woke?’

If Jonathan Swift were Black, Florida and Arkansa would have banned his works. Banning books and AP classes are what happens when semiliterate ideologues try to defend us white folks from history itself and the perspectives of Black people.

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Hozier on solitude, relationships and his new album: ‘I think everyone goes through their version of hell’

The Irish artist is releasing his long-awaited third record ‘Unreal Unearth’, which was inspired by Dante’s Inferno. He speaks to Roisin O’Connor about being a hermit, ‘the drug’ of co-writing songs for the first time, and writing his way out of heartbreak

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Channel 4’s shocking Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat owes much to Swift and his gruesome satire

There wasn’t much advertising ahead of the release of Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat, which was touted as a documentary about the food industry.

The Guardian - UK

The British Miracle Meat: the story behind one of the best TV hoaxes in history

Terrestrial television may sometimes seem old-fashioned – but this only enhances its ability to tease and surprise its audience. This week, Channel 4 brought back satire with a bang

The Independent UK

Gregg Wallace jokes he really enjoyed his first acting job in Channel 4 mockumentary

Presenter provoked a furore online with his satirical show ‘The British Miracle Meat’

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Julian Assange ‘dangerously close’ to US extradition after losing latest legal appeal

Assange’s father, John Shipton, said his son’s grounds for a further hearing were ‘clear, firm and just’

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Swiftian’ takes on a new meaning as Taylor Swift fans descend on Chicago

Like Gulliver, travel downtown this past weekend brought you to a world transformed.

Salon

Why are Republicans so bad at lying?

They lie so much, shouldn’t they be better at it?

The Conversation

Why are the poor shunned? The reasons are complicated

In a study of 19th century ideas of poverty, the German historian Beate Althammer observes a strange dichotomy. On the one hand, “there existed a deep-rooted tradition of ascribing to the poor a special proximity to God”. As a Hamburg teacher wrote in 1834:

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Frank Skinner and Denise Mina’s literary adventure

They follow in the footsteps of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. Plus: discomfiting comedy in Jerk. Here’s what to watch this evening

Chicago Sun-Times

The Humanities are not dead

According to no less an authority than The New Yorker, that most bookish of large-circulation magazines, the academic study of imaginative literature is in the process of vanishing from American college campuses.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Judge Says Prince Harry Can Sue UK Govt over Security Plan

Prince Harry can take the British government to court over his security arrangements in the UK, a judge in London ruled Friday. Harry and his wife Meghan lost publicly funded UK police protection when they stepped down as senior working royals and moved to North America in 2020. The prince…

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