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the settlement of Echinoida, before it was claimed by the sea

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@KyivIndependent ooh, a self-sanction, those are rare

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Just the Prime Minister attempting to destroy the University sector for no better reason than class prejudice

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@JimBethell my five-year-old also likes to take off all his clothes before doing a big poo

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@TPointUK Italy took the knee and won the game. England took the knee and came a wafer-thin second. Team Incel are still living in their mum's back bedroom.

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@SkyNews Q. If your pay rise is 2%, but inflation is 11%, rail fares are rising by 5.9%, and your pension is down by 22%, how should you vote? show your working.

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@OfficialUoM why do you have non-refundable Acceptance Deposits at all? Time to end this practice, at the University of Manchester and across the sector.

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@Yamiche perhaps men are too emotional for positions of leadership

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@leahmcelrath this may look cute, but billionaires only do this when they are extremely distressed

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I have never seen UK academic twitter as angry as tonight ...

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University should not, in fact, hurt. Students should not, in fact, consent to be harmed.

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@GeorgePapa19 You will be running for a Greyhound bus in 2020, and you'll miss it.

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@josh_salisbury some over-60s on Facebook are angry about the possibility of city-dwellers having a decent quality of life, so for Tory electoral reasons I'm afraid you must be made to suffer

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@vlad @BNONews sad face emoji

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@James_D_Harris @BenKentish we want the finest breakfast wines available to humanity

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@michaelgove Public Health England: "No one in your household should leave home if any one person has symptoms." Ordinary families up and down the land have been trying to follow the government guidelines. Mr Gove, to see you sacrifice public health to defend a political ally is nauseating.

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@JimMFelton my happy place is your nana's dog at the chippy ...

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@bbclaurak You know, the perp usually disagrees with the judge when they get sent down. It is irresponsible for the BBC to amplify an "unnamed source" who is undermining the rule of law. If your source must be so reckless, let them put their name to their statement.

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@Todd_Spence Your party planners were so preoccupied with whether or not they could ... they didn’t stop to think if they should.

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@ShehabKhan @michaelgove This is WRONG. On Sunday 12th April (Easter Sunday), it was not permitted to take car journeys of 30 miles for exercise.

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@NadineDorries let's ask the Prime Minister what he thinks ...

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Josephine sets a great example to us all by postponing her birthday party until we have sent coronavirus packing. Together we can beat this. In the meantime let's all wish her happy birthday (twice) whilst washing our hands. #BeLikeJosephine #StayHomeSaveLives

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@Cobratate 6) losing a twitter fight to Greta while giving away your location to the Romanian authorities resulting in jail time.

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@LozzaFox @NHS the law doesn't care about your feelings. if Laurence Fox can't cope, he should keep it to himself, rather than advertise his midlife crisis on twitter to @metpoliceuk

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The plot thickens: UUK surveys from Cambridge & its colleges were CREATED by a consultant from Xafinity. Xafinity's work includes "de-risking" Defined-Benefit pension schemes - the company tell investors that this brings additional revenue. Now THAT's a Conflict of Interest! 👇

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American friends: if you like exciting spectacles that go on for 5 days and end in a draw, you're going to love Test Match cricket!

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@NadineDorries of course not - she apologised and resigned. We're still waiting for Dominic Cummings to do the same.

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The head of the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team ... now has coronavirus. 😱 Get well soon Prof Ferguson.

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Sigh. Developed a slight dry but persistent cough yesterday and self isolated even though I felt fine. Then developed high fever at 4am today. There is a lot of COVID-19 in Westminster.

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@NadineDorries @BorisJohnson too loyal? a number of ex-wives would disagree

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@BorisJohnson can a virus get reinfected by the same Prime Minister?

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@Trump4Hope Trump just refused to travel to a historic WW1 memorial service near Paris ... because it is raining. I don't think he'd enjoy being a farmer.

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@PaulBrandITV this is a smoking gun, and it's past time for @metpoliceuk to get involved

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@stoolpresidente the Blue Check now marks out too many people who will pay money to shout over the top of others, irregardless of whether they have something valuable to add. For that reason I will #BlockTheBlue .

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and I would drive 100 miles 🎶 and I would drive 100 more just to be the man who drove 200 miles to bring the virus to your door.

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This is hilarious - the @UniversitiesUK stock photo used in today's press release contains text PLAGIARISED from a Wikipedia article on the efficient-market hypothesis! 🤣

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@StevePeers Imagine the shame for the Home Office. Being defeated in the courts by a bunch of lazy yet activist lawyers - who are simultaneously on twitter all day, yet activist enough to thwart the government's best minds at every turn.

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Toby Young misunderstands Ad Hominem. The circumstances by which he got to Oxford are a clear example of bias in action. A case study, an exemplar. Thus, directly relevant to the central argument.

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@Phil_Lewis_ good lad, just going to formally check that the pets are not too frightened.

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NEW: How 18 Bursars from Cambridge and Oxford got together at OXCAM on 20th September 2017, and helped "steer" the @UniversitiesUK consultation on #USS pension risk. THREAD 👇

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@vickyford saddened to hear incidents of the Children's Minister seeking squalid political advantage, after her government was forced into a U-turn on feeding hungry kids by a Premiership footballer.

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@PickardJE stories of illicit lockdown parties are "doubling every 2 - 3 days", warn SAGE

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@RoyalFamily "I continue to regret my ill-judged association with Epstein" This is not what Prince Andrew said in the BBC interview. He said he did not regret meeting Epstein, because the association had been "very useful" in making contacts. I am glad to see he has changed his mind.

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we built chris whitty we built chris whitty on rock and roll

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@MoS_Politics Tory MPs colluding with foreign governments, you say?

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@PrivateEyeNews gifts included a poisoned apple, a cursed spinning wheel, and a novel coronavirus

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@NoCaliphate2 @gillis_lester @NotQuiteLadylik @nutquacker1 @ashleyfeinberg Below are some facts. On guns, the US is exceptional. But not in a good way.

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I can't get my head around a *£100 billion* budget for an Operation Moonshot. The annual budget for UKRI is around £8 billion - that's all seven Research Councils. So., 12 years of UK science funding to be spunked away on a Hail Mary. No wonder the chair of UKRI is resigning.

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MISSING: 30+ mysterious " #USS employers" that responded to the Sep 2017 @UniversitiesUK survey on pension scheme risk. Not Universities, nor even Oxbridge colleges - but " #USS employers". Who might they be? Help me seek them out 👇 (Thread)

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@littmath look, the chance of drawing a given card is 1 in 52. Yet you have drawn five of them. That's 1 in 380204032. My priors tell that it's unlikely you have any cards in your hand.

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@Peston Might as well abolish the upper house if they are not prepared to stay up late to oppose a bill that is wrong in principle and practice, that was not in the government manifesto, and for which all amendments have been denied. Pathetic stuff.

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@elonmusk because you have set it on fire, by suspending any journalist who dares to criticise you

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Now Uni leaders admit: "The working conditions for casual staff are the learning conditions for students" "Short-term contracts a major driver of declining staff mental health" Insecurity leads to attrition of talent & narrow participation. #UCUstrike

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Hard evidence of collusion in Oxford! Pembroke College, Oxford have just released their response to the UUK September survey on #USS pension risk ... ... and it is word-for-word the same as the University of Oxford's! But it gets worse 😮 ... (THREAD 👇)

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@TomPugh212 "These are not the drones you are looking for ..."

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@ReutersPolitics Yes, because it's a Court Order, not a Court Suggestion ...

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@PaulBrandITV it would certainly be on-brand if the only person arrested was Shaun Bailey

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Who is behind the drive to end the Defined-Benefit #USS pension scheme? A key figure is Prof Koen Lamberts, VC of University of York, and Chair of the Employers Pension Forum (EPF). Join me on a rambling thread 👇.

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@ChrisMasonBBC @BBCBreakfast @pritipatel @mrdanwalker Mr Mason, please don't boast about getting Government ministers on BBC Breakfast, when government ministers are boycotting Channel 4 News. First, it leads us to conclude the BBC give ministers an easy ride. Second, don't be complicit in government manipulation of press freedom

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find yourself someone who looks at you the way McDonalds looks at Peterborough

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@GBNEWS absolutely hilarious! I thought you believed in free speech? You created a completely bogus culture war and somehow contrived to lose it in spectacular fashion.

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@MattHancock @captaintommoore £20 million - isn't that the amount you wasted on Chinese antibody tests that don't work?

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@Peston can you please name your source, in this case. What are there qualifications or expertise? Why should we give weight to their words?

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@ZacGoldsmith We held you to account at the ballot box. Twice. But because you were a pal of Boris, and went to the same school, you ended up in the upper chamber, Lording it over us.

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Pandemics don't build character, they reveal character. I don't like what this episode has shown us of the character of university leadership. I don't think they are monsters. I just think they are cowards.

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@10DowningStreet this is the worst kind of tokenism. It's been 3 years. All you've done in 3 years is try to shift the blame onto the firefighters who risked their lives.

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@metpoliceuk so you are saying women can hold public vigils - but only if their team wins the Premier League?

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@Rehman_Chishti @Conservatives you burned so brightly yet so briefly - your leadership bid lasted just 1.43 Michelle Donelans.

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@Otto_English the second paragraph "no one else to ask" is kind of sad. But surely there are people you would call upon before your diary secretary, starting with your husband.

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@Number10cat Putin's army have lost another Marine

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@thesundaytimes @adampayne26 "Little bit of bread and no cheese"

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@Peston "if you could un-find it again Sue, perhaps I could find a new leisure centre for your constituency"

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@Podolyak_M @BorisJohnson @ZelenskyyUa there is a broad consensus in the UK across the political spectrum for supporting Ukraine militarily. It is a mistake to tie this, too tightly, to a politician as domestically unpopular as Boris Johnson. 41% of his own MPs just voted No Confidence in him.

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@BBCWorld the courtroom artist's sketch

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@gillis_lester @NoCaliphate2 @NotQuiteLadylik @nutquacker1 @ashleyfeinberg This plot is for developed countries. The US should compare itself with Canada, not Mexico or Honduras. FEYNMAN.

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This is a wilful misrepresentation of "revise & resubmit" from Sally Hunt. R&R was quite distinct from "no detriment" - R&R advocates typically wanted a jointly-negotiated, clearly-worded proposal, with less taken on trust. I really hate spin, whether it comes from AJ or SH.

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@JewishChron instead of this, how about the Board of Deputies speak out against the annexation of the West Bank which breaks international law.

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@mattwridley @montie it was a spectator sport for you, Viscount, when Northern Rock crashed on your watch

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@NoCaliphate2 @gillis_lester @NotQuiteLadylik @nutquacker1 @ashleyfeinberg There are crims in all countries I'm just pointing out the correlation between no. of guns, & gun-related deaths. With the US way out front

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Twitter is so broken rn I'm half-expecting #USS to announce it has taken a 20% stake

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The Universities #USS pension scheme is now showing a surplus of £5.6 billion (on the Technical Provisions deficit). The future service contribution has fallen drastically, from 25.2% to 18.5%. Total vindication of the UCU position that cuts were unnecessary. #UCUstrike

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@NadineDorries you promised to resign with immediate effect, 1.3 Trusses ago

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@christopherhope amateurs. It's time to call in an expert: Coleen Rooney.

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University staff: Please make a fair offer on pay, pensions and precarity, so that we can get back to teaching our students. University leaders: You people don't UNDeRstanD the comPLex FinANciaL RealiTieS! THerE iS No mOnEy!! #UCUstrike #UCUstrikesback

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@Tendar I'm no military expert, but isn't losing the naval HQ and the Admiral of Black Sea fleet to a nation without a navy somewhat ... sub-optimal?

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@bbclaurak If Parliament votes for an early recess motion, it will lose all authority in the eyes of the country. It just looks like cowardice and dereliction of duty.

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@davidallengreen The other letters are sprigs of parsley. There to garnish the fact that he has now asked the EU for an extension, after repeatedly promising his supporters he would not do so.

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@JustinWelby stay out of politics please, Archbishop, and I promise to spare you my opinions on organised religion.

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@davehclark change your policies *now*. To me this looks like corporate manslaughter at the very least ...

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@MichaelPDeacon @willpooley you can meet your aunt, but only if she is also your boss.

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are UniversitiesUK ok? some of their communiques make it sound like they want to settle things in a pub car park

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@SebastianEPayne Four men are ultimately responsible for the exshambles: Roger Taylor, Nick Gibb, Gavin Williamson and Boris Johnson. It is pathetic to watch them shift blame to those under them, with the motto "Deputy heads must roll".

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@RevRichardColes My housemate cooked a meal for a girl he liked - I think it was their second date - and she got locked in the bathroom when the door handle fell off. In the end she had to climb out the window & down a ladder we borrowed from a neighbour. They're married now. Good luck Rev!

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@Steven_Swinford not fit for office? He was handpicked as Chancellor by Boris, who Truss says should have stayed in post. Time for a General Election.

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@NadineDorries keep talking, it's really helping ...

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Westminster voting intention: LAB: 43% (+4) CON: 30% (-5) LDEM: 9% (-3) GRN: 7% (+2) REFUK: 4% (-) via @RedfieldWilton , 17 Jan Chgs. w/ 10 Jan

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#ReesMoggPolicies All citizens to be attired in black and white so that new-fangled "colour photography" does not incite moral turpitude.

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@afneil There are genuine facts on the B&J thread. Worth engaging with. Play the ball, not the ice-cream.

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@bbclaurak Boris becomes PM. Boris loses 6 votes, loses 22 MPs, loses Churchill's grandson, and loses 11-0 at Supreme Court. Boris meets Netanyahu. Netanyahu loses election. Boris meets Trump. Trump is impeached. #CurseOfBoris .

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@bbclaurak Turning down a job can lead to an 8-week sanction by the #DWP ...

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@davidallengreen speaking as a normal personal with zero interest in the law, I resent the day that constitutional lawyers became sexy, exciting and relevant.

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@wartranslated and so it came to pass

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@SadiqKhan @trishgreenhalgh Thank you Mr Khan. Please can you also ask why a big screen was allowed at this event? It looks like this appalling behaviour is being encouraged by some in positions of power.

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