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The King of Comedy: How Charles III used humour to reprimand Donald Trump in the US Congress

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There is, rather conveniently, an actual novel called The Two Georges which imagines a world in which George Washington and King George III settle their differences and the American Revolution never happens. In that version of history, America remains within the British system, the empire adapts, and everyone carries on with a slightly different flag and a great deal more politeness. Charles’s joke worked because it gestured at that absurd possibility, only to return the room to reality. The revolution did happen. The king did lose. The republic did win. The story was settled.

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डोनाल्ड ट्रंप और बेंजामिन नेतन्याहू के बीच लेबनान में सैन्य कार्रवाई को लेकर तीखी फोन पर बातचीत हुई, जिससे अमेरिका की ईरान कूटनीति संकट में पड़ गई है। ईरान ने अमेरिका से बातचीत रोकने की धमकी दी है।

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The King of Comedy: How Charles III used humour to reprimand Donald Trump in the US Congress

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