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Online teacher of English. Lover of literature and languages. Coventry City fan #PUSB. Tends to the left politically but not dogmatic.
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I love The Nose. I wrote my BA dissertation on that story- partly because it was less well covered than The Overcoat but it is just as good/weird.
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Perhaps it could never live up to part 1. It is a great book as you say. I love the opening and the description of Boris Johnson a hundred and fifty years before he was born.
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Dead Souls by Gogol
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Rishi Sunak really should apologise for interviewing Musk like a teenage fanboy.
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And Sunak’s cringeworthy interview with Musk.
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The glee on Chris masons face at 6.00 on the news as he bragged he had just been on the phone to farage.
How fucking biased can you get?
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Why don’t the BBC highlight racism in their coverage? They only seem interested in Farage’s spinning of the resignation
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Wonder what it’s like for a German Chancellor sitting across from a modern day Hitler
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The prosecutors see the organisation's goals as “ridding the population of the former Soviet republics of their Russian identity” and “cultural interaction to unite the anti-Russian Baltic community”
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Same with VAT on public schools. There are a few (too few) good policies
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And yes, we should applaud the government when it does the right thing. Maybe if we do, they’ll do it more often. 😉