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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’

The Independent UK

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’

The Guardian - AU

‘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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Why are Republicans so bad at lying?

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

Salon

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 Conversation

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Dilapidated centuries-old building to be turned into a 'tavern' serving food and drink

It's currently empty and has been described its owner as 'basically a square box'

Wales Online

Prince Charles condemned ‘appalling’ Rwanda deportation scheme, reports state

It comes as a High Court judge ruled that the first flight to Rwanda can go ahead on Tuesday

Evening Standard

UK court says asylum seeker deportation to Rwanda can go ahead

Charities and a trade union launched legal challenge to stop British government sending asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Al Jazeera

‘How could I sit at my desk as Ukrainian children die?’: small-town newspaperman heads to war

The editor-reporter-photographer says he’ll do whatever he can to help and hopes others will follow his lead

The Guardian - US

Rare early likeness of Jonathan Swift sells for £81,250

The painting came to auction for the first time in two centuries.

The Independent UK

Stuart Cosgrove: Is Scottish football the last bastion of misogyny in journalism?

IT has not been a good week for “banter”. In fact the very word is in crisis.

The National (Scotland)

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The Independent UK

Rare early likeness of Jonathan Swift to be sold at auction

The painting is coming to auction for the first time in two centuries.

The Conversation

Election humour 2022: can the major parties win votes with a funny marmot or a joke about Star Wars?

The 2022 election campaign seems longer than Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. And there is still ten days to go. But that does not mean the whole thing is without lighter moments.

The Guardian - UK

Gulliver’s Travels review – bedroom voyage to the world of Jonathan Swift

Bewitching video and ingenious sets combine in a staging that turns the 18th-century adventure into an escape for a troubled student

Daily Mirror

Man's creative job application method gets the entire office talking about him

Jonathan Swift decided to think outside the box when he applied for a job on Instantprint's marketing team - and his creative method has become the talk of the office

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Meat as metaphor: What if you wanted to eat human flesh?

Given a choice between the predictable and the prohibited, what would you go for? How far would you go to gratify your greed for the forbidden? Have you ever considered exhibiting your deepest desires uninhibitedly? Have you ever thought what you apprehend to be taboo might be a mere social…

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