What is Kwasi Kwarteng really up to? One answer: this is a reckless gamble to shrink the state | Adam Tooze theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Richard Milner
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Richard Milner
@milnerrm
Academic and Researcher ◇ PhD in Social Science -🔎Politics and Sociology ◇ 'We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field' W.H.
Cork, Ireland Se unió Aralık 2012
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Richard Milner retuiteado
Capitalism — and the capitalist growth imperative — is the root cause of climate breakdown.
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Rebel Reads is bookshop, event space and an evolving bunch of resourceful Cork heads who are organising a community. ❤️
If you have any projects, events, or ideas about how the space can be used or improved, we want to hear from you! Get in touch!
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This🧵 well worth a read while we're waiting to find out the result...
Robert Saunders@redhistorian
The Conservative Party was once famed for its iron discipline. Yet six of its last eight leaders have been fatally undermined by their own followers. Why has Conservatism become so fractious? And why can Johnson no longer hold his followers together? [THREAD]
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@Theresa_OKeefe Good piece on it here independent.co.uk/voices/johnny-…
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@ThreshedThought Thank you for the enlightening thread as always 🙏🏼
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Time for a little round up of the Ukraine situation.
A thread (with some poorly drawn maps).
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Richard Milner retuiteado
When a country cannot manage to pass basic regulations to prevent the massacre of schoolchildren - over several decades - it is a failed state.
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We’re reaching a bit of a tipping point in the Ukraine War.
A thread.
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Hitting up Aldi’s knockoff beers hoping to find unexpected value. Couldn’t confirm the presence of maize in the ingredients so I’m optimistic. 🍺
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Got my Stag Kolsch from @9whitedeer! Delicious, crisp beer made in the Cork Gaeltacht of Baile Bhúirne.
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We have a new paper coming out tomorrow in The Lancet Planetary Health that quantifies national responsibility for global ecological breakdown due to excess resource use. Stay tuned for the results (which are disturbing), and some useful interactive graphics.
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My analysis of a transformative moment for Europe @IrishTimes we can’t predict the future but the 24th of February will alter Europe’s security architecture, enlargement and the green transition
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Happening right now @UCDLibrary, hundreds if not thousands of books and journals being thrown directly into a bin lorry. Some will counterargue that many volumes, especially journals, are now superceded by digital editions. However, lots of older valuable books being tossed. A🧵:
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“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.”
Kurt Vonnegut
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@milnerrm Telling - the Russian establishment is just ripping the country off & they are indulged by U.K.
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A must read on what Russian money buys in London
Maria Pevchikh@pevchikh
I would like you to meet Polina Kovaleva. Polina is a 26-year-old glamorous Russian girl from London🇬🇧. She lives in a huge apartment in Kensington and loves to party, her instagram feed looks like a non-stop holiday. That’s not unheard of, but there is one small detail…(THREAD)
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