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15 days ago
A Dickensian period drama that's been hailed as 'masterful' has returned for a second season - and it has an unbelievable 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score.
68 days ago
Poem of the week: Down on the canal on Christmas Day by Chris McCabe ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
A melancholy December vision in Liverpool invokes a Dickensian ghost with more worldly but still warm realism
Down on the canal on Christmas Day
Down on the canal on Christmas Day
a man walks towards…
5 months ago
Nothing prepared me for the child poverty I see in Britain. November’s budget can and must halt its inexorable rise | Gordon Brown ○
Homes without heating, bedrooms with beds. If we are to offer any hope to the children of austerity, the next few weeks will be decisive
Run-down housing estates in Britain’s former industrial heartla…
7 months ago
Why is Labour so afraid to admit that we must tax the rich to help the poor? | Andy Beckett ○
There have been modest redistributive reforms, but the party of the workers still daren’t admit that Britain’s rampant inequality needs to be addressed
After 125 years of practice, Labour ought to be …
Children in England ‘living in almost Dickensian levels of poverty’ ○
Children’s commissioner says any Labour strategy to tackle deprivation must scrap the two-child benefit cap
Children in England are living in “almost Dickensian levels of poverty” where deprivation ha…
Labour rebel criticises ‘Dickensian’ welfare cuts as MPs debate bill ahead of vote – UK politics live ○
MPs are debating the universal credit and Pip bill as Lindsay Hoyle says he has selected amendment tabled by Rachael Maskell
Compass, the leftwing group urging Labour to be more pluralistic, has put o…
9 months ago
Skin Deep review – kitty rescue immersive-sim is slapstick fun in a cartoony playground ○
Blendo Games/Annapurna Interactive, PC
This attempt to cosy-fi an immersive sim game is full of ‘zany’ gags as you rescue cats from a spaceship, but it gets a bit too saccharine
When it comes to gamer-…
12 months ago
Holidays in hell: summer camp with Russia’s forgotten children ○
At the rural orphanage where I volunteered, the place resembled a Dickensian workhouse. The staff’s main tools were antipsychotics and violence. The experience gave me a window into Putin’s Russia
In…
ChatGPT, can you write my new novel for me? Och aye, ye preenin’ Sassenach | Gareth Rubin ○
Let’s see if AI can take the faff – the actual writing bit – out of penning a Shakespearean thriller with a Scottish villain
The monsters of artificial intelligence are coming for you. They will cast …
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