The gospel according to Dolly Parton
Also this week: Good King Wenceslas’s winter fuel allowance and grumpy monks.
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Ian Hislop is a journalist, broadcaster and satirist. He is the editor of Private Eye and a team captain on the BBC quiz programme Have I Got News For You.
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On the hottest day of the year and in the strangest week in politics I went to give a…
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From satirical coins to subversive salt-shakers: a history of political protest through objects
A new exhibition at the British Museum gathers seditious items from across the world and the centuries.
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Ian Hislop’s Diary: Blasphemy trials, rude Egyptians and the difficulty of writing Brexit jokes
The shard was thrown on a rubbish tip, lay there for centuries and discovered the same time as Tutankhamun’s tomb.
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The age of outrage
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