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 · Jul 25, 2023
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 · Jun 9, 2023
‘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 · Jun 4, 2023
Why are Republicans so bad at lying? They lie so much, shouldn’t they be better at it? Salon · May 6, 2023
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 · Apr 10, 2023
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 · Mar 14, 2023
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 · Mar 9, 2023
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 · Jul 22, 2022
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 · Jun 18, 2022
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 · Jun 11, 2022
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 · Jun 10, 2022
‘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 · Jun 5, 2022
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 · May 18, 2022
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) · May 15, 2022
The Independent UK · May 12, 2022 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 · May 10, 2022 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 · Mar 17, 2022 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 · Jan 29, 2022 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
Newslaundry · Jan 15, 2020 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…