@ClarkeMicah Great piece. Not sure I completely agree with you, but its a great bit of thoughtful writing.
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My view of Iran is greatly affected by the fact that, unlike most commentators in this discussion, I have been there. This is what I found: 'Iran: Past the Paranoia' theamericanconservative.com/iran-past-the-…
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@richardpbacon A devastating failure of US intelligence. The school was within yards of an Iranian military base. Was it placed there as a human shield ?
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Also, why have we stopped talking about that girls school getting bombed by an American Tomahawk cruise missile?
spiked@spikedonline
The war with Iran is spiralling out of control. And yet commentators have spent the past 24 hours wailing at Trump over his joke about Pearl Harbor. This is as predictable as it is tiresome, says Simon Evans buff.ly/0xQ0SMk
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This number received huge media coverage, but was estimating something very different from what was claimed. Personally, I believe that much of the benefit would have come from starting 'advisory' lockdown on March 9th. But I suspect this will become a 'zombie' statistic...
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OSR questioning the Covid Inquiry's claim that modelling 'established' 23,000 fewer deaths if mandatory lockdown imposed a week earlier on March 16th. In fact this estimate is not only very uncertain, but also assumes voluntary measures were brought forward a week, to March 9th
Office for Statistics Regulation@StatsRegulation
We have today written to the Covid-19 inquiry regarding the presentation of statistical modelling in the Executive Summary of its Module 2 report👇 osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/correspondence…
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@CharlotteCGill Let's consider. There are 55 majority Muslim countries but so many muslim migrants avoid them and head for Britain. So, despite rampant Islamophobia, they prefer Britain. Hmmmmm...
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MEND Community@mendcommunity
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@ClarkeMicah I don't know if this works for ancient Latin. One of the ways of working out old English prononciation is by looking at poems. Rhymes are the clue.
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.@aqrmanddangour. That looks great, but if you've read it, perhaps you can tell me how W.Sidney Allen has worked out the pronunciation (especially of consonants) of a famously dead language.
Armand D'Angour@ArmandDAngour
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@MbKryts @wickedtraveller If he knew it contravened the rules and he did it deliberately then it's cheating. I think whether he gained an advantage is irrelevant.
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@wickedtraveller @Glinner The world saw it and the world will judge.
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Read the whole thing. "They knew we were cheating so they dishonestly tried to catch us in the act!" is not the greatest defence I've ever heard
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
NEW: Canadian curling star Marc Kennedy claims he was set up by "premeditated" cameras to catch him "in an act" of cheating. The Canadian curling team is now claiming to be victims after they were caught on camera 'double-touching' the stone. "They have come up with a plan here at the Olympics, as far as I know, to catch teams in the act at the hog line," Kennedy said. "This was planned... it was kind of evident that something was going on, and they were trying to catch us in an act." Kennedy and Coach Paul Webster accused Sweden of setting up cameras to catch them cheating. "I know we’re not the only team that they’ve done that to. So I think this was, I don’t know what the word is for that, but like a premeditated plan to try to catch us," Kennedy said. Sweden is firing back at Canada, saying they've been sounding the alarm on alleged Canadian cheating for seven or eight years. "We've been saying this for maybe seven, eight years or something. The media crew decided to place the camera on the hog line to see what was happening..." said Niklas Edin of Sweden.
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@Gaynotqueer1 Note to hetero males. Hugging another male must be very brief. And ONLY when you are both under the influence of alcohol.
Similarly for "I love you". Only when drunk and in a phrase similar to: "I love you you silly b****rd".
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@AnnieWells2026 The Tory solution is to institutionalise children. Absolutely dense.
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Russell Findlay is right to call on John Swinney to scrap these soft justice guidelines. The killer of Keith Rollinson didn’t spend a single night in a real jail, instead serving time in a charity-run unit with a swimming pool and courtyard, and could now be released early. This is the result of SNP quangos shaping the justice system. What message does that send to potential offenders? It’s complete nonsense. #FMQs
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@GreenPartyHan I'm sure I disagree with you on many matters, but thank you for looking after these wonderful doggies.
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@Philip_Goff But if we had good reasons (independent of fine tuning) to think that infinite realities do exist or have existed . . .
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A one minute intro to the argument that persuaded me that you can't explain cosmological fine-tuning with a multiverse.
youtube.com/shorts/WnyJkmV…
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@JohnPaulMarney @LeoKearse One report I read suggested that the EU and UK would be subject to counter sanctions if they tried to stop the blatant tax dodging. The multinationals have great influence on US politicians. Campaign contributions, plum jobs after retirement etc.
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@hopefield3 @LeoKearse Very true. Now that Germany and France are facing severe problems, I suspect the Irish tax haven days may soon be curtailed by their masters in Brussels.
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Steve Coogan attacks the “racist” right while inadvertently validating their argument: that foreign heritage limits British identity.
“I am a part of the Irish diaspora, I’ve always felt...antipathy towards the British flag"
(Ironically, the Irish people I know feel very aligned with Britain. Maybe Coogan truly is British; only Brits have such disdain for their country)
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@LeoKearse @JohnPaulMarney Ireland was very poor for 60 years after independence. It does well now because it's a tax haven for tax dodging multinationals which "export" profits earned in the UK and EU to Dublin. Ireland's corporation tax is set to specifically encourage this fraud.
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@LeoKearse @JohnPaulMarney Scotland's trade is much more intertwined with the rest of the UK than UK trade was connected to the EU. The subsequent economic hit (from independence) would be much harder.
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@Gaynotqueer1 If comedians had done their job we could have been saved from a mountain of madness.
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@garylfrancione William Ralph Inge. Anglican priest and the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral. An accomplished author, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
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From 2013:
Thought for the Day
Most "animal advocates" seem to spend a great deal of time coming up with all sorts of positions that have one thing is common: they all reject veganism as a moral baseline.
Humans and nonhumans are equal in that all sentient beings have a moral right not to used exclusively as resources. No sentient being should be property. And recognition of that one moral right compels us to conclude that veganism is a moral imperative.
Any other position is a speciesist sell out.
HowDoIGoVegan.com
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Commuters are footing a £100m bill for cleaning tubes and buses over the next five years
LFG will actually clean, and do it for a quarter of the price
Will Andy Lord join us?
City A.M.@CityAM
TfL to spend £100m a year on cleaning tubes amid graffiti spat bit.ly/4pCQ8uO
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@SteveStuWill Have you seen the divers removing hooks from sharks ? Angels.
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We all welcome that Homicides are down in London! However that’s just ONE crime; How about 200 Gangs/County Lines all armed; Rape reported every hour; Robbery; Knife Crime; Mobile Phone Theft & Rolex Watch’s; Shoplifting ASB & Many Communities living in fear? No Go Areas etc Any Comment?👇🤷♂️
Sadiq Khan@SadiqKhan
Cleaner air, better transport, vibrant culture - and now the lowest homicide rate in recorded history. The facts speak for themselves. London’s story is one of resilience, ambition and optimism - not the decline some would have you believe ⬇️
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I thought it couldn’t be true a new Glasgow housing development has streets named Radiology St and Virology Grove. Turns out I was wrong. The houses are on the site of the old Ruchill Hospital hence the “medically inspired” names. Glad they kept away from Oncology and Pathology.
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