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Shakespeare’s Cymbeline explores how to live through the end of the world

Written in 1611, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline is a raw mess – full of feeling and as messy as life. The 18th-century man of letters, Samuel Johnson decried the play as a work of “unresisting imbecility”, a hotch-potch of incongruities.

The Conversation

Timothy West: Acclaimed actor who shone on screen and stage

A towering presence on stage and screen who was equally adept in comedy roles such as Bradley Hardacre in ‘Brass’

The Independent UK

Why we just can’t wait to stop procrastinating

Brief letters: Samuel Johnson’s wisdom | Rachel Reeves’s big gamble | Christmas trees | Weather forecasters | Ex-X

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Timothy West: a modest maestro who embodied the best of British theatre

With a remarkable knack of bringing history to life on stage and screen, West honed his craft with devotion and delight

The Guardian - UK

Timothy West, star of stage, film and television, dies aged 90

With a career ranging from Shakespeare to EastEnders Great Canal Journeys, actor was a familiar face from the 1960s onwards

The Guardian - UK

'I'm ready to dance again': Samuel Johnson wants to party with Canberrans for his beloved Connie

Get your tickets for the 'snazzy' event at the Canberra Casino.

The Canberra Times

Lawsuit Against Kathy Griffin Alleging She Tweeted to Get Man Fired Can Go Forward

A quick summary of the factual allegations: On April 24, 2021, Samuel Johnson sat down for dinner at a hotel in Franklin, Tennessee. Shortly after, a group of forty to fifty teenagers began taking prom pictures nearby. The boisterous teenagers apparently disturbed Johnson and other customers, prompting him to ask…

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Rumbles by Elsa Richardson review – gut reaction

A vivid cultural of digestion, from ancient Greece to All-Bran

The Guardian - UK

Dickens! Hendrix! Johnson! Inside London's most historic houses

Author Alice Loxton uncovers some of the capital’s historic gems — like the townhouse that was home to both Handel and Hendrix

Evening Standard

Entangled Pasts: Art, Colonialism and Change review – the most radical show in the RA’s history

The latest institution to confront its colonial past, the RA does so to enthralling effect, using the art and its subjects – spanning 250 years, from Turner to Lubaina Himid – rather than the wall texts to shock and enlighten

The Guardian - UK

What the UK wants for Christmas is to get Brexit undone

Importers, exporters, private citizens and the Labour party all urgently need the economy to function better than this

The Guardian - UK

Multidimensional Poverty Index reduction under the NDA is flawed

The Multidimensional Poverty Index story is distorted

The Hindu

Sixth Circuit Serial Personal Jurisdiction Litigant Kathy Griffin Makes More Precedent

If you want to sue someone, you have to do it in a court that has "personal jurisdiction" over that person; that, courts have held, is required by the Due Process Clause. One way to make sure of this is to sue where the defendant lives (to oversimplify in some…

Reason

MasterChef Fave Melissa Leong Has Announced Her Next TV Move & Colour Me Excited

She’s set to star alongside Costa Georgiadis and Samuel Johnson — what a trio!

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The Hindu

The Hindu Future India Club to hold seminar in Guntur on career opportunities in law, management, sciences

FIC and VIT-AP collaborate to host a seminar in Guntur on Oct. 10, providing students with career options in law, management and sciences. Deputy director of admissions John Pradeep and motivational speaker Samuel Johnson will address the students, followed by an interactive session.

Zenger

Lost Letter By Dr. Samuel Johnson Fetches Four Times Estimated Value

Rediscovered after 250 years, the rare letter surprises at auction, selling for £30,000

The Independent UK

18th century Samuel Johnson letter to young girl sells for £38,460

The item had been found stashed among a number of historic letters in a cupboard in a Gloucestershire country house.

Chicago Sun-Times

Straight from the Blagojevich playbook

Like our disgraced former governor, Chicago’s current mayor thinks he can quote his way out of a tight spot.

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The Guardian - UK

Can Sunak’s rightwing war on ‘woke’, migrants and the environment save the Tories?

We asked a panel of commentators for their view on the government’s latest strategy

Wales Online

Blackadder portrait appears at historic mansion house leaving visitors scratching their heads

The oil painting shows Rowan Atkinson's BBC sitcom character in his Elizabethan attire

Daily Mirror

Portrait of TV comedy icon sneaked into stately home - and mistaken for Shakespeare

The painting should be instantly recognisable to most Britons - but some visitors to Audley End House wrongly thought it depicted the Bard or Sir Walter Raleigh

The Independent UK

Just Stop Oil activists in court after protest at Gallagher Premiership final

Samuel Johnson, 40, of Reydon, Suffolk, and Patrick Hart, 37, of Brislington, Bristol, invaded the pitch, Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court was told.

Bristol Post

Bristol GP charged for Just Stop Oil protest at the Gallagher Premiership rugby final

Just Stop Oil protesters invaded the Twickenham Stadium pitch midway through the first half of the match between Saracens and Sale, throwing orange paint powder onto the field

The National (Scotland)

Pretty Young Rebel tells the rollercoaster life of a great Scottish figure

SKULKING. There’s a lot of that going on in this rambunctious biography. Furtive dashing from here to there: that was Flora Macdonald’s lot.

The New Daily

‘Hang up your hat, mate’: Samuel Johnson calls time on Molly Meldrum after Elton stunt

Australian actor and author Samuel Johnson has called for Molly Meldrum to ‘hang up his hat’ after a series of mis-timed on-stage incidents

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