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The BBC reports that the town of Aracataca, birthplace of Gabriel García Márquez, has decided not to rename itself Macondo, the name of the town in Márquez book, Cien años de soledad, and avoided a trap of double irony.
The mayor of Aracataca hoped that renaming the town after Macondo would attract tourists, perhaps not realising […]
BBC News reports that “MI5 believes, from polls, that around 400,000 people in the UK are “sympathetic to violent jihad around the world”.
Doesn’t it sound terrifying? Four hundred thousand people, all of whom readers of a certain newspaper will think are ready to wage bloody war against Merrie England and probably do unspeakable things to […]
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