The World Desk

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Dispatches from everywhere that is not here.

Plate: Death and the Diplomat

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Scotland Offers to Swap Dehumidifiers for Trade Deal

Scotland offers England 400,000 dehumidifiers in exchange for a customs union. England accepts, then discovers the machines are the size of wardrobes and the storage bill is £14 million. Frederica Organ reports barefoot from the border.

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Shawn Mendes Seen Scratching Rat-Person

A rat-person crawled out of Shawn Mendes's sleeve on a live stream, was given a name, a Juno and a heritage plaque, and is now wanted for arson. Ruby Sound says he was never real.