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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

Presenter provoked a furore online with his satirical show ‘The British Miracle Meat’

Assange’s father, John Shipton, said his son’s grounds for a further hearing were ‘clear, firm and just’

Like Gulliver, travel downtown this past weekend brought you to a world transformed.

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

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:

They follow in the footsteps of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. Plus: discomfiting comedy in Jerk. Here’s what to watch this evening

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.

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…

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

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