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Trolling feels like a new phenomenon. But it existed long before the internet

Trolling on the internet looks and feels like a new phenomenon. Abuse can rain down on a target instantly and from everywhere, in quantities never before seen. But as David Rudrum’s engaging book on the history of trolling shows, the desire to hurt or distract another with words goes back…

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£3million Oscar Wilde-linked mansion mysteriously burns down after huge drugs bust

Exclusive: The grade II-listed eight-bedroom house went up in flames months after police busted a gang using it to grow cannabis. Alexander Butler reports

The Independent UK

Where tourists seldom tread, part 15: three more UK towns with unsung stories

Our tour of unheralded towns continues with Black Country legends in Dudley, Renaissance-style architecture in Enniskillen and Middlesbrough, birthplace of the Sydney Harbour Bridge

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Air traffic control to Sir Keir: turbulence ahead

There’s no point trying to make plans around the whims of Trump. The PM instead needs to turn to Europe

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Orgies, vampires and jewel-laden tortoises: it’s time we buried the myths of decadence in art

Is western civilisation being destroyed by its own decadence? Was the Roman empire? And does a preference for Lord of the Rings over The Matrix indicate that we are all doomed? Our critic tries to sift fact from fiction …

The Guardian - UK

Charles Kay obituary

Stalwart supporting actor who appeared at the RSC and the National, and on TV in I, Claudius and Fortunes of War

The Guardian - UK

Stephen Fry ‘startled and enchanted’ with knighthood in New Year Honours

He has been recognised for services to mental health awareness, the environment and to charity.

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Australia on stage: the best theatre, musicals, dance and opera of 2024

Guardian Australia critics pick out the best live stage experiences of the year

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Oscar Wilde was vibing before the Beach Boys

Letters: The notion of ‘vibes’ may originate in The Importance of Being Earnest, says Richard Haslam

The Guardian - UK

The Invention of Love review – Simon Russell Beale yearns from the underworld

The quicksilver actor is a vocal glory as the poet and classicist AE Housman looking back at his younger, tormented self in Tom Stoppard’s play

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Ballet Shoes; The Importance of Being Earnest; The Devil Wears Prada; The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary – review

At the National, Noel Streatfeild’s classic flies while Oscar Wilde’s wit is gorgeously unleashed. Elsewhere, a slavishly faithful take on The Devil Wears Prada and a bijou Flaubert caper

The Guardian - UK

Dame Edna Everage spectacles among items in Barry Humphries auction

Christie’s will auction Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection in London on February 13 next year.

The Independent UK

Nicholas Cullinan's guide to London: Korean fried chicken, karaoke and The River Café

The British Museum boss on his favourite karaoke spot, nights out with Courtney Love and the Miuccia Prada line he lives by

Evening Standard

Five ways to predict the future from around the world – from spider divination to bibliomancy

Some questions are hard to answer and always have been. Does my beloved love me back? Should my country go to war? Who stole my goats?

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The Importance of Being Earnest at the National Theatre review: Ncuti Gatwa stars in a fizzing production

4/5 Expect Bridgerton-style colourblind casting and sexual fluidity in this radical reinvention of a 19th-century classic

The Guardian - UK

The Importance of Being Earnest review – Ncuti Gatwa leads a Wilde party of irresistible anarchic charm

Gatwa’s Algernon brings delightful mischief to a high-camp production pointing up the classic Victorian comedy’s subversive queerness

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30 Wildest Comebacks That People Have Heard Or Come Up With

Someone asked “What is the most brutal insult you’ve ever heard in your life?” and people shared their best examples. The post 30 Wildest Comebacks That People Have Heard Or Come Up With first appeared on Bored Panda.

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The American No by Rupert Everett review – blackly comic short stories

The actor, writer and director mines his own backlog of unmade projects to create an exhilarating collection

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The Independent UK

After 50 years, overdue library book is returned to Massachusetts library with a sweet note

‘It’s a rarity that someone found this,’ said one staffer at the Worcester Public Library

Evening Standard

Discovery of lost Oscar Wilde books hailed a 'miracle'

Librarian’s detective work links three books to the world-famous author

The Guardian - UK

For the record

Baszucki Group | Manchester Utd v FC Twente | Oscar Wilde sculpture | Settle, North Yorkshire

The Guardian - UK

Arty outrage, ancient sweets and Abba’s nuptials – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Independent UK

Oscar Wilde’s grandson condemns ‘hideous’ new statue of the playwright

‘Segmented head’ sculpture was designed by the late Scottish artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi

The Guardian - UK

‘Absolutely hideous’: new London sculpture of Oscar Wilde condemned by his grandson

Gloomy segmented head of famed playwright fails to convey his wit and brilliance, says Merlin Holland

The Guardian - UK

It’s only LSD but I like it: the play telling the untold story about the Rolling Stones drugs bust

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger’s 1967 raid and trial caused a national storm, seeming to pitch old against young, Establishment against counterculture. But was the real story overlooked? We return to the 60s at their most swinging

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