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Trump vs the election: Asha Rangappa This is the first interview in an eight-part series. Asha Rangappa Legal scholar and former FBI agent “That is really hard to answer,” says Asha Rangappa, who in her roles as senior law lecturer at Yale University, legal analyst for CNN and former FBI special agent has probably faced trickier questions than “Can you be sure […]

Trump vs the system: Chris Buskirk This is the second interview in an eight-part series. Chris Buskirk Editor and publisher Chris Buskirk remembers the moment in 2015 he first took Donald Trump seriously as a presidential candidate. “We were talking about the Republican debate at a family meal,” says the Arizona-based editor and publisher of conservative online journal American Greatness. “And […]

Culture in lockdown: 5. Elizabeth Stokes This is the final part of a five-part series. See also our profiles of comedian Dom Joly, theatre director Matthew Xia, classical musician Yana Tsanova and Elvis impersonator Brendan Paul Elizabeth Stokes, musician Auckland, New Zealand Elizabeth Stokes has vivid memories of The Beths’ 6th November 2020 concert at Auckland Town Hall. “We finished the […]

Culture in lockdown: 4. Brendan Paul Brendan Paul, Elvis impersonator Las Vegas, US “I know what most people think. I can see it in their eyes when I tell them what I do,” says Brendan Paul, owner of the Graceland Chapel in Las Vegas. “People smirk and go, ‘Oh my God, you’re one of those Elvis people that sings at weddings.’ […]

Matthew Xia, theatre director For theatre director Matthew Xia, 846 Live came from a place of frustration. “George Floyd lost his life on the streets of America, and I think many people of African diaspora heritage wanted to speak to that moment,” he says. “But I felt hamstrung by Covid. Sure, I could scream into Twitter or write a blog, but [as a director] that’s not what I do. I bring people together.” Commissioned by Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Royal Docks Team in respons...

Barcelona, Spain On 22nd June 2020, Yana Tsanova (pictured above, right of group) took to the stage at the Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house in Barcelona. It was the first concert to take place in the venue since the easing of Spain’s initial ‘State of Alarm’ the day before. With Tsanova were the three other members of the UceLi string quartet and on the bill was Giacomo Puccini’s ‘I Crisantemi’ (‘Chrysanthemums’). The auditorium was packed. The quartet, stiffly dressed in forma...

London, UK Back in June 2020, after months of stasis, Dom Joly was starting to get cabin fever. The comedian and travel writer was in lockdown with his family at his Gloucestershire home. His Holiday Snaps tour – a one-man-and-a-laptop show in which he would regale his audiences with tales of trips to exotic places like North Korea and Cambodia – had been postponed. It was, he says, the longest he had been in the same place for as far back as he can remember. “There was suddenly this mome...

LIVE ONLINE CLASS: How to make infographics We will be running a live online class class on Zoom on Wednesday 14th July 2021 to show how we create Delayed Gratification’s award-winning infographics, from initial idea to final piece. In this class you will… Learn how to find compelling stories in data Understand how to take those stories and turn them into beautiful […]

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At the DG Reading Club we take a fascinating long read from our archive and discuss it with the journalist who wrote it. On Wednesday 28th April 2021 we’re looking at this extraordinary piece about a standoff over refugees between Greece and Turkey. We’ll be interviewing Istanbul-based journalist Mitra Nazar, who sailed with the Turkish coast guard to report on allegations that boatloads of migrants and refugees crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey to the island of Lesbos were being pushed b...