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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Charlotte Higgins

'Top philosopher' Plato turns Sun writer

I'm loving this piece from the Sun about the putative discovery of Atlantis (yet again) in the Atlantic Ocean north-west of the Canary Islands. (It's a sort of grid, or in Sun-speak a "perfect rectangle the size of Wales" spotted by an aeronautical engineer as he browsed Google Ocean.)

Deliciously, the main piece is accompanied by a commentary from "top philosopher" Plato. ("This exciting discovery on Google Ocean backs up the theories about Atlantis I outlined in my dialogues Timaeus and Critias back in 350BC..."). Yet again is fuelled my suspicion that the Sun is secretly staffed entirely by people with philology PhDs from Oxford.

Sounds like a lot of cobblers to me (to employ a Sun-appropriate phrase) – but lots of fun.

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