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Washington reflecting pool saga is just the latest example of man trying to dominate nature – and losing

US President Donald Trump’s “restoration” of the reflecting pool that stretches between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument has been dogged by questions over cost and now by the president’s claims it has been vandalised.

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The Twitnam Summer by Hester Grant review – Swift, Gay and Pope’s season in the sun

A historian makes the case that a meeting of minds in 1726 changed the course of English literature

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Savage House’s filth and farce are closer to the real bawdiness of the 18th century

Although critics have praised the performances in Savage House, the film itself has received a frosty reception.

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Quote of the Day by the greatest prose satirist Jonathan Swift: 'As love without esteem is capricious...'- Here's a powerful reminder by the Irish author famous for his masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, that love needs both respect and affection

Jonathan Swift's timeless quote, 'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold,' highlights the essential balance between affection and respect in relationships. Swift's observations, shaped by his life and keen understanding of human nature, reveal that lasting connections require both emotional warmth and…

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California Conservatives Champion 'Local Control' Until They Dislike the Results

Conservatives want local control over housing policy, but they're happy to let the state restrict when local governments can raise taxes.

Reason

Gerry Adams tells high court he was stunned by 1996 Docklands bombing

Former Sinn Féin leader, who is being sued for symbolic damages, also denies any prior knowledge of the attack

The Guardian - UK

Plan to turn Irish borderlands into Unesco ‘region of literature’

Arts group proposes literary routes across 11 counties linked to writers from Jonathan Swift to Lisa McGee

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Arborescence by Rhett Davis review – why would people turn into trees?

This quietly satirical speculative novel tells a story of metamorphosis, but feels insulated from real ecological crisis

The Guardian - UK

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

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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…

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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.

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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

Reason

Not Even Artificial Intelligence Can Make Central Planning Work

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

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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

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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

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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?

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‘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?

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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

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

The Independent UK

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.

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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

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