Long Stories
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THE GUARDIAN
- Castaway tells tale of 16-month Pacific survival
- Google boss warns of ‘forgotten century’
- Insects could be the planet’s next food source
- Is the solution to India’s waste problem in the bag?
- My year of no spending
- Nelson Mandel, South Africa’s first black president, dies aged 95
- New words (true or false)
- Novel way to cut unemployment: pay people to leave
- Sale of Stolen Banksy mural cancelled
- The girl they couldn’t silence
- The Greek island where time is running out
- What is the world’s most vulnerable city?
- Zero-hours contracts cover more than one million UK workers
THE CONVERSATION
- Coronavirus exposes Britain’s bogus self-employment problem
- Deepfakes: faces created by AI now look more real than genuine photos
- History of the two-day weekend offers lessons for today’s calls for a four-day week
- How multinationals continue to avoid paying hundreds of billions of dollars in tax – new research
- How the technical expert emerged in 19th centruy politics – and what empire had to do with it
- Is racism and bigotry in our DNA?
- Learning a language? Four ways to smash through the dreaded ‘intermediate plateau’
- Stop calling coronavirus pandemic a ‘war’
- The dark side or plant-based food – it’s more about money than you may think
- The king’s first portrait – understanding the image Charles wants to project for his reign
- ‘Whatchamacallit’, ‘gizmo’ and ‘thingamajig’: what we say when we can’t find the right word – and why
- What is populism and why is it so hard to define?
- What the world can learn about equality from the Nordic model
- Why ‘finding your purpose’ matters – and four ways to find yours
- Why pandemics are the perfect environment for conspiracy theories to flourish
TALES FROM BRITISH HISTORY
VARIOUS READINGS
- Derisive quotations
- English meals
- Franz Kafka and the lost doll
- H.M.S. Pinafore (video)
- I can’t get no satisfaction
- Isaac Asimov’s predictions for 2014
- Magna Carta
- My Italian career
- Paraprosdokians
- Port out, starboard home (video)
- Take care of your golf balls
- The art of wasting time
- The bus driver
- The devil in me (+ video)
- The fisherman and the banker (true or false)
- The giving tree
- The great dictator’s speech (video)
- The history of the English language in ten minutes (video)
- The prisoner (+ link to TV series on YouTube)
- The waterbug (fill the gaps)
- What is it really like to be British
- Who was Saint Patrick really? (true or false)
THE CANTERVILLE GHOST
- Il celebre racconto giovanile di Oscar Wilde del 1887 (true or false)