Competition launched to find real-life Dickens characters

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Journalists’ Charity founded by Victorian author seeks pen portraits of modern-day Micawbers and Uriah Heeps

A charity founded by Charles Dickens has launched a competition to find real modern-day characters who could have provided the basis for one of the author’s classic creations.

 

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If that orange shitwhistle occupying the White House isn't a 'real-life Dickens character,' I've never seen one.

This is utterly disturbing

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