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9 months

Just found this in a book

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“Don’t Look Up” assumes that the rest of the world would rely on the US, and not China, to deal with a world-ending catastrophe with a ruthlessly efficient engineering solution, which already marks it as a cultural relic from a vanished era.

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This kind of walkable, mixed use urbanism is made impossible by the absence of a need to cluster inside fortified town walls from the Ottoman threat

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Old Town of Corfu 🇬🇷

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POV: you’re a French knight in 1415

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This Man City fan after De Bruyne’s goal…

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People saying they can’t believe this is happening in the 21st century are going to be very disappointed with the 21st century

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Sorry we took your homeland, have a biscuit

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Azerbaijani police officer distributes food to armenian people who left #Karabakh .

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Just checking in on the American discourse

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Corfu Town has the same population as Ramsgate (c.40k) but feels like a bustling European city rather than a provincial town. In a poorer country than the UK, it has many times the shops, cafes, restaurants, businesses generally. Why is this?

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We experience London as a Victorian city, but the Victorians themselves inhabited a still partly medieval and Tudor streetscape: this doesn’t really come across in TV/film adaptations

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For foreigners, Greece is islands and beaches and whitewashed cubic villages. In Greece (to advertise cheese, for example: Greeks eat more cheese than any other Europeans) ur-Greekness is mountains, and forests, and snow, and tinkling sheep-bells. I often think about this.

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King Charles III on hedgerows, soil fertility and the necessity of preserving small family farms worldwide:

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"BBC to produce ‘lighter’ content to attract Britons from poorer backgrounds" How could the BBC become even more lowbrow?

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Here’s why a nuclear exchange is actually good 🧵 1/?

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The “NGO lady teaching Afghans about Duchamp’s urinal” clip now being used at conferences as an example of how the West lost its way

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The ultimate NATO defeat in Afghanistan won’t be the ANA’s military collapse, but if Taliban 2.0 governance ends up being objectively better, more stable and more widely perceived as legitimate than what came before.

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Ethnic conflicts, based on the irreconcilable aspirations of different peoples to control of the same land, can be temporarily frozen but are unresolvable within the framework of liberal-democratic politics. Short of imposing order from above, there is only victory or defeat.

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Azov mobilisation in Dnipro, recruiting video from Azov Telegram. From recent videos, Azov seems to have expanded rapidly in the past three weeks, including two new battalions in Kharkiv and a local defence unit in Ivano-Frankivsk

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In all the Twitter excitement, worth remembering that during the invasion of Iraq, it took two weeks for the Americans to reach Baghdad and another week to seize it. This is still correctly remembered as a lightning-fast campaign.

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Life on the Donbas front

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More seriously, lots of American bluechecks were very excited about eroding the taboo on political violence back in November 2016, seemingly thinking they’re the only side who gets to be violent, or gets to get away with it afterwards. That’s not how these things work.

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Our leadership has to change. It needs to become a little less about the leader and a lot more about the ship. #pm4pm

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The German invasion of Greece in 1941, a very minor lightning campaign, took three weeks with 2000 German dead. I'm not sure the past two decades have prepared us for understanding state-on-state warfare.

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In a Druidic ceremony in Westminster, Paddington Bear prepares to accompany HM the Queen to the afterlife (2022)

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Sad: climate change makes me scared to have children 😥 Rad: climate change makes me want to have a dozen children, build a dynasty to dominate the post-apocalyptic wastes, build new kingdoms, create new civilisations

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If I ran a government with a bellicose foreign policy and announced the strong likelihood of entering a global conflict within 5 years, I'd try to preserve a domestic steel industry, but what do I know?

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This is why you keep catering in-house

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Moorehall, Co. Mayo, abandoned 1923 (via FB)

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From A Pocket Guide to Northern Ireland, for US servicemen, 1942. V interesting how the US Civil War has become more, rather than less politically salient in the 80 years since then.

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you know I'd like to see a really full-blown action movie that treats Confederates like Nazis in a good bad war flick, none of this tearful music shit, just Union boys blowing the shit out of the bad guys.

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This implies an uncontacted alien civilisation will have evolved some kind of boring, technocratic, centre-left form of governance?

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Imagine explaining this to somebody from another planet

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Some personal news: introducing Constantine Roussinos

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Prince Philip’s exile and therefore the existence of Princes Charles and William were unintended consequences of Greece’s failed conquest of Asia Minor after WW1. His father Prince Andrew commanded the II Army Corps at the 1921 battle of Sakarya, outside Ankara.

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The 1990s literature on ethnic conflict was frank about Rwanda’s deep-historical divisions (the sacred drum of Tutsi kingship was decorated with Hutu testicles). Yet the current politically accepted belief is that the Belgians created the conflict ex nihilo for obscure reasons.

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Ruthless mercenary commander of humble background wins renown for outcompeting Western powers, conquering breakaway provinces the sclerotic forces of the central state couldn’t manage, achieves lucrative monopoly, strikes for the imperial capital before turning back

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The greatest danger for US hegemony is the seemingly seriously-held belief both WW2 and the Cold War were won by superior ideologies, and not industrial bases

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Putin’s claim that Ukraine is a “Nazi state” is simply a lie. But instead of “de-Nazifying” Ukraine, his invasion is reinvigorating extreme-right militias, some Nazi, within the Ukrainian armed forces. We need to watch carefully watch how this develops:

The truth about Ukraine's far-Right militias

Russia has empowered dangerous factions

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England is a very weird place and if you don’t live here you will never understand what a strange place it really is: even by the standards of Northern Europe it’s just deeply odd and not quite explicable for foreigners; just uncanny and deeply eccentric in lots of unique ways

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“The era of the peace dividend is over” Ah well— at least we spent all that saved money on useful infrastructure, housing and domestic prosperity

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Every day we’re seeing the tragic consequences of the more dangerous world we’re living in. How we respond will define our future. And the choice is clear. Just like our enemies, we must be prepared for a new era of confrontation.

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Armenians who looked to the West have learned bitter lessons from this war, and so should we:

Armenia: another country abandoned to its fate

If you haven’t seen this harrowing BBC report from Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday, you should. Filmed as ethnic Armenian fighters and civilians withdraw from the disputed enclave yesterday, it shows...

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In weather like this, Anglo-Byzantinism *works*

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Sabre-rattling with GREECE is OVER, now ARMENIA is our new worst enemy

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BREAKING: Erdogan says Armenia is the biggest threat to peace in the region

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The failure of the Conservative Party to be conservative means that it will be replaced by a RW that has moved beyond conservatism.

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Hengist and Horsa guard the entrance to the Thames Estuary megaport

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Being European is being scolded on the internet by upper middle class scions of the largest, most powerful and militaralily dominant empire that has ever existed in human history, of which I am an entirely unwilling subject, for being a coloniser

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What we think we’re watching: a recreation of Waterloo What we’re actually watching: the last embers of Russia’s millennia-old cavalry tradition, the participants instructed by the last generation schooled in the charge as a viable form of warfare

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Odd to think Bondarchuk’s Waterloo (1970) was filmed only 15 years after the USSR retired its last cavalry division. This scene was only possible due to the Moscow Militsia retaining mounted units for crowd control.

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Terraced kitchen gardens, Mt Athos

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Cool map of Western Europe

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Random factoid: Ossetian is the last surviving branch of Scythian, once spoken across the Eurasian steppe from the Danube to Mongolia, and first encountered by the Greeks in southern Ukraine.

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The City of London with 1960s offices replaced with half-timbered apartment buildings on the existing medieval streetplan, skyscrapers to remain

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Make it so

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England-- maybe Britain, but definitely England-- is one of the strangest, most self-absorbed and timeless countries in the world, a universe to itself, somewhere between Japan and Bhutan, but very few people here fully recognise this.

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Fact check: false Father Christmas lives in the Hyperborean paradise, surrounded by enchanted forests

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Since the Northern Arctic is just ocean, Santa’s North Pole workshop has only ever existed on a floating sheet of ice. Images that portray Santa’s workshop with pine trees and snow-capped hills on the horizon are geographically underinfomred.

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US embassy Kyiv drawing up a formidable arsenal of sassy gifs

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The most striking thing from the (actually quite small scale) London scuffles is how everyone’s simultaneously recording each other. A panopticon nation of aggrieved content creators.

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Judging by their likes, the X porn bots hold nuanced, perhaps internally divided opinions on the Gaza conflict

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English Parliament, York

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My tiny, low GDP European village which I love very much.

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Genuinely don’t know if I like this or not

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The funeral of Prince Philip's grandfather, King George I of Greece, following his assassination in Thessaloniki in 1913

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Zelensky blaming the West is a broadly positive signal, if we're looking for routes to a peace deal: it allows him to make painful decisions (he's already signalling the status of Crimea & Donbass is negotiable), and blame them on faithless external patrons

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The Victorians weren’t so different to us; contrary to popular perception, the British annexation of much of Africa was the unintended product of humanitarian interventions, mission creep, and liberal activist pressure at home:

How liberals made the British Empire

The certainties of today's activists echo those of former colonialists

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Dua Lipa wants Albania to annex Corfu?

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au•toch•tho•nous adjective (of an inhabitant of a place) indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists

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Framing the Charlie Hebdo story as a freedom of speech issue is ultimately fruitless, and a distraction from the real question, which is one of sovereignty. The issue is who decides what can and cannot be said in France, not whether X or Y can or should be said.

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Macron is now at war with two ideologies: Islamism and American millennial liberalism

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Europe’s oldest functioning bridge, in Greece (1300 BC)

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Η Μυκηναϊκή Γέφυρα της Καζάρμας (1300 π.Χ.): Η παλαιότερη διατηρητέα γέφυρα της Ευρώπης βρίσκεται στο χωριό Αρκαδικό Πελοποννήσου, Ελλάδα!

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One of the first things you notice as a parent is how your kids have inherited certain ways and looks— glances, laughs, frowns— from your parents and grandparents. But then you wonder what they still keep alive from long-forgotten or unknown ancestors. How far back does it go?

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A film I always wanted to make but haven’t yet is about the only region of Europe where sharia is still the dominant civil legal code: the Bulgarian-speaking Muslim villages of Greece’s Western Thrace, whose inhabitants are probably the direct descendants of the ancient Thracians

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“A German man referred to as a prince called Heinrich XIII, 71, is alleged to have been central to their plans.”

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German police arrest group of 25 far-right and ex-military figures suspected of plotting to storm parliament and seize power

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The Roman arch at Richborough, East Kent, the ceremonial entrance to Britannia

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Who would win, Heidegger's hut (left) or Wittgenstein's cabin (right)?

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Britain can and should be the most prosperous country in Europe: any obstruction to this attainable goal (and there are many) should be ruthlessly dismantled

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Some tips for dealing with the heat: — Don’t do any work — Sleep through the afternoon — Sit under an olive tree playing the flute while your goats graze the scrubby hillsides

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@surplustakes Never again will August 1914’s mass outbreak of war enthusiasm seem a puzzling snapshot of an earlier era

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Woodcuts of dreadnoughts from the Russo-Japanese war

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Uh, how does that work

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Israel's Ministry of Intelligence is recommending the forcible and permanent transfer of the Gaza Strip’s 2.2 million Palestinians to the Sinai, according to an official document revealed in full by @mekomit and +972. @yuval_abraham reports.

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Just found out Afghanistan’s central bank uses a coin of the Greco-Bactrian king Eucratides I as its seal:

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No?

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Is Mel Gibson the most overtly RW mainstream Hollywood director? Braveheart, The Patriot & Apocalypto all share essentially the same plot: loyal husband & father sees his rural idyll shattered by sneering interlopers from the cosmopolitan metropole, and wreaks bloody vengeance

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Modern Ireland is the gonzo nightmare image of what Blair-Cameron UK would have become without our sudden, unfinished, still-contested course correction: a pure colony of global capital, housing crisis worse than London, unchallenged neoliberal political consensus

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The footage is fascinating btw and employs a traditional rural mixture of social pressure (public shaming, appeals to solidarity vs outsiders) with an undertow of looming violence. I assume the Land War went down similarly.

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Builders confronted by anti-immigration protesters 'in shock' after 'intimidating' incident at Aughrim hotel Read more:

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For @unherd , I spent a week in the Donbas embedded with the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps (Right Sector), in their first mission since being formally absorbed into the Ukrainian army, tasked with harassing advancing Russian troops:

On the frontline with the Right Sector militia

I spent a week with a Ukrainian nationalist unit

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@ThatchEffendi It genuinely feels like everyone on Twitter is watching a different war entirely

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The quality of painting shown by the work of provincial tradesmen that just happened to be preserved by a favourable climate gives you a hint of what we must have lost from the rest of the Classical world

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Fayum Portrait, Egypt 2nd c. AD

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The Woke Ottoman thesis, courtesy of the NYT’s review of Mazower’s latest. Liberal American views of colonialism and empire seem curiously malleable:

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Good morning-- today's my first day as Foreign Affairs Editor at @UnHerd , which, excitingly, will mean I'll now be commissioning essays as well as writing. Please do pitch ideas to me at aris.roussinos @unherd .com

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Only the English character could transmute Modernism into a Tudor country house

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Oh my lord, 1930s house with the original bathroom 😍

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French army rations (Mali, 2013)

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I’m not “white”, that means nothing to me. I’m British, Greek, Irish, English, European, in different contexts, heir to various European cultures, but not “white”. To even accept this framing is to adopt a colonised, American mindset.

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here's another thing that doesn't exist: white Greeks.

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Between “nothing ever happens” and doomster catastrophising is the constant ratcheting up of the baseline level of international disorder we currently experience as normality. The trend is ever-upward, but within the context of the moment, each escalation seems underwhelming.

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A decade ago, VICE looked like the future of TV news. It wasn’t:

My part in Vice's downfall

Brash millennial upstarts were once the future of news

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When the Americans abandon their inept local proxy elites, the British establishment takes it personally: read into that what you will

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The creaking sound of a paradigm shifting

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Behind all the appeals to norms and values and human rights and liberal democracy, when it comes down to it it’s all just tribalism and always was.

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British politicians focus on British politics challenge (impossible)

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan

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London stands with the women of America, whose most basic rights and freedoms are threatened by this ruling. A dark day for a great country.

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Waterways of Britain and Ireland

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Prince Harry’s slow descent into generic American bluecheckdom is a very 21st C benchmark of national decline

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Looking forward to reading Industrial Society and its Future, by Tintin

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Trump hears the shaman’s drum pounding across the distant steppe, feels the salt sweat on a horse’s neck, whispers of forgotten Altaic languages in his dreams, the spirit of the horde possesses him