Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z Twitter profile

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Yuan Yi Zhu

15 days

For @thetimes , I review Baroness Chakrabarti's new book in defense of human rights. A lazy and meandering effort—she can do better and she knows it. Unpaywalled link.

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

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Yuan Yi Zhu

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2 years

I don’t understand how the British ever conquered all these hot places.

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2 years

I just acquired a copy of the Harvard admissions manual.

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2 years

Committed a possible cultural appropriation by eating Chinese takeout on Christmas Eve.

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10 months

The US were the good guys in WWII.

仲兼久のぞみ Nozomi Nakaganeku

@nozomimeanshope

10 months

World War II in particular is a critical historical episode that is figured in the US imaginary as the last war in which the US were the "good guys", a reductive narrative of good vs. evil. That war is one that the US returns to again and again 2/

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3 years

Reject video games; return to mortar practice in elementary school.

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1 year

Randy Obenauer, 74, of Kelowna, Canada, cries as he tries to clean his own catheter. His friend had requested additional care for him, but his care providers asked if he would be interested in undergoing euthanasia instead.

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2 years

In honour of Macron's victory, a repost of the greatest French meme ever made.

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10 months

People don't understand how much wealthier Americans are compared to Europeans. The average northern Virginia federal bureaucrat can afford two Pratt & Whitney F135 turbofans a month on a government salary.

Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈

@JosephPolitano

10 months

The funniest part of living in Northern Virginia is constantly seeing metro ads that are exclusively targeted at like ~4 procurement officers at the Pentagon

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10 months

Yes, cry more.

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2 years

Remember kids, if you do enough war crimes you will be punished by being downgraded to Asian.

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1 year

Following what’s happening in China from afar, I can’t feel anything but pure loathing for those in the West who not so long ago held up the Chinese Zero Covid approach as an exemplar.

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1 year

Horrifying.

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7 months

It will never be not funny that Penn took her off tenure track and paid her peanuts and is now busy taking credit via press releases.

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

Congratulations to one of our new medicine laureates: Katalin Karikó ( @kkariko )! 🎉 An interview with her will be coming soon.

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2 years

Margaret Thatcher telling off a young Justin Trudeau, c. 1984.

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10 months

That's why I can never watch Jane Austen adaptations. There's never any representation of the allied sovereigns of Europe fighting the Jacobin menace.

anthony christian ocampo 🇵🇭🏳️‍🌈

@anthonyocampo

10 months

Just saw OPPENHEIMER, an in-depth character exploration of the people who built the atomic bomb, a weapon of mass destruction that killed a quarter million Japanese civilians. Film is 3 hours long and features zero Japanese people.

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7 months

When I was a little prig of an undergraduate I’d sometime follow up through footnotes and notice the source didn’t say what it was supposed to say and put it down to me not having understood something correctly. Now I know better.

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1 year

Okay this is pretty funny (the real thing, for illustration purposes):

Populism Updates

@PopulismUpdates

1 year

The Japanese prime minister's son had to resign from his job in the government because of a party he threw at the official PM residence. He took photos like this one, where his friends are lined up as if they're announcing a new cabinet

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1 month

This entire thread is a crime against taste and an indictment of Reddit, but this particular post tops it all (the flag with the union jack is the original Kingdom of Hawaii flag. The “more respectful to natives” flag is something some Internet rando made up.)

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@nikicaga

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Hawaii: I hate the Union Jack there. Please just use the very unique Kingdom of Hawaii flag, would also make it more respectful to natives

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1 year

Have you considered paying her better so that she can afford more than a room to live in.

Lee Anderson MP

@LeeAndersonMP_

1 year

Katy works for me. She is single & earns less than 30k, rents a room for £775pcm in Central London, has student debt, £120 a month on travelling to work saves money every month, goes on foreign holidays & does not need to use a foodbank. Katy makes my point really well.

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5 months

This is by far the funniest reaction to Kissinger's death.

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@kuomintang

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The Kuomintang notes the passing of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and we send our condolences to his family. We recognize Kissinger's efforts to bring about peace and prosperity in the Indo Pacific throughout his career in and outside government.

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2 years

The ProPublica thing on the Wuhan lab is being taken at face value by all my normie mtutuals and with extreme scepticism by all those who can read Chinese beyond a menu. It's quite astonishing.

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2 years

I was just about an undergrad when the Syrian Civil War broke out. For weeks and weeks everyone's attention was on it. Then it slowly began to drop from the front pages, and then the drop became a fall. I am not sure if most people realise it's still going on.

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8 months

You don't say.

Voytsekhovskyi 🇺🇦

@fermerzpolissia

8 months

This is probably the shittiest dictatorship tourism propaganda video I have ever seen

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4 years

We all live in America now.

BBC Sport Scotland

@BBCSportScot

4 years

Glasgow City will carry the name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on their strip this season to honour the "feminist icon and role model".

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1 year

Can we take a second to appreciate how many medal ribbons the Pentagon Press Secretary, a general who spent his entire career in Army public affairs, has on his chest.

Moshe Schwartz

@YWNReporter

1 year

Pentagon press secretary: We have been crystal clear that we will defend every inch of NATO territory.

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7 months

I never want to hear lectures about disinformation from certain people ever again.

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1 month

Matthew Parris says the quiet part out loud about euthanasia: “we simply cannot afford extreme senescence or desperate infirmity for as many such individuals as our society is producing.”

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2 months

I don't know if I expected to see such an agonisingly realistic recreation of a Cultural Revolution struggle session, on Netflix of all places.

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7 months

There is no amount of legal Latin that can justify this.

The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

7 months

BREAKING: 260 bodies recovered from site of a music festival after Hamas attack near the Gaza border

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1 year

Amartya Sen's CV is the ultimate flex. On page 1 he lists the six Cambridge prizes he won as an undergrad. Pages 2 and 3 is just a long list of all his honorary degrees. His Nobel Prize is buried on page 4. The CV hasn't been updated since 2013.

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10 months

@MioHondaFan Nuance isn't fungible and you can have too much of it.

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2 years

Many people seem to be surprised India is an independent country with its own interests and foreign policy and does not exist for the sole purpose of balancing out China.

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6 months

Judicial review has gone too far this time.

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11 months

The vice-president of the Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers now openly admits people have chosen euthanasia because of poverty, after her organization spent years calling anyone who said this a liar. But she says it's okay because it's not illegal per se.

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3 years

We need to ban pundits and punditry.

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10 months

If I didn't want to be forced to unconditionally surrender to the nations of the United Nations I simply would not wage a decades-long war of imperial aggression against dozens of countries and lose.

Shaun (shaunvids on bsky)

@shaun_vids

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*unconditional* surrender. the japanese leadership were already asking for peace, they just refused to surrender unconditionally (and even after the bombs & russian declaration of war, they only offered to accept surrender terms if they got to keep the emperor)

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2 years

For no particular reason, remembering when a guy in Ottawa murdered a sentry at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and walked into Parliament and started shooting when PM and Cabinet were in the building and we had a national conversation about whether that was terrorism or not.

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1 year

The Red Arrows paint the flag of France in the sky to reaffirm the King's claim to his outre-mer birthright.

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2 months

It's been abundantly clear for a while that you can just go around public institutions and museums in the UK and attack the artwork and getting off with a slap on the wrist at best, and this is the outcome.

Oliya Scootercaster 🛴

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#BREAKING Pro-palestine protesters DESTROY historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, by spraying and then slashing it.

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2 years

Yes, Clive, these two things are exactly the same.

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10 months

You can reasonably say many things about Singapore's death penalty laws, but I don't think 'unlawful' is one of them.

Amnesty International

@amnesty

10 months

The authorities in Singapore must stop carrying out unlawful executions in the name of drug-control. There is no evidence that the death penalty has a unique deterrent effect on crime or that it has any impact on the use and availability of drugs. It's high time for abolition.

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7 months

Lots of people are really showing who they are today. Don't forget them.

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3 years

Asians parents rock.

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

"As a child, I promised my mother I would win the Nobel Prize in Physics. 50 years later, I said to my mother, 'See, I have kept my promise. I won the Nobel Prize.' 'No,' said my mother, 'You promised it would be in physics!'" - Kenzaburo Oe, awarded the 1994 literature prize

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7 months

I am wary of speech-based crimes in general, but if it's a crime to send Grenfell Tower jokes online why isn't this being treated the same way?

Yonatan יונתן #AdoptIHRA

@__jacker__

7 months

"Are your people dead?"- "yes" - "aww, good. Are they dead?, aww, good" London, last night.

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4 months

This is the most trad thing I've read this year.

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1 year

Amazing how the British now get the blame for the Partition of India, the one thing they categorically did not want to happen.

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2 years

I wish Harvard et al would be honest and just come out and say "yes we think being 40% Asian would be bad for our brand and social prestige". It can't be worse than the fudging about bad personalities as they do now.

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1 year

My brother in Christ it’s been a week since the review came out. Just take the L and move on.

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2 years

Yikes. The easiest soft power and it's been thrown away.

PA Media

@PA

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#Breaking A total of 382 jobs at BBC World Service will be cut as part of plans to move to a digital-led service, the broadcaster has announced

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4 years

If Asians aren't white and aren't of colour, what are we? Translucent?

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2 years

Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter reaffirms the old adage that all revolutions are fundamentally intra-elite conflicts. In this paper I will

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3 years

Deleting the dating apps to meet someone the old fashioned way (through a loveless dynastic marriage which will secure My succession and expand My dominions.)

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11 months

I still find it extraordinary that so many are willing to defend a dehumanizing system where teenagers are reduced to one single racist variable in order for their future to be determined.

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3 years

The politics of bilingualism in the Belgian Congo.

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1 year

A Canadian doctor gave approval for euthanasia to a man after he wrote them this email. As was charmingly put to me once by an academic expert, to not allow poor people to commit suicide simply because they are poor would be discriminatory and rob them of their dignity.

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2 months

The Red Guards who smashed up anything that faintly smacked of history also happily smashed the heads of the people who were associated with the old order. Iconoclasm is not confined to the destruction of inanimate objects.

Philip Proudfoot

@PhilipProudfoot

2 months

The protest at Cambridge was not art destruction but art creation. Whenever there is an act of iconoclastic protest, people seem to think attacking artwork is somehow outside of protest dynamics, when in fact it has a long history. Throughout time, protestors have defaced art…

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3 years

Lololllllll

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2 years

We need a term like Orientalism for American writing on Europe.

Bloomberg Opinion

@opinion

2 years

Suddenly, Americans can’t spend like they used to. Store shelves are emptying, and it can take months to find a car, refrigerator or sofa. If this continues, we may need to — gasp! — live more like the Europeans. That actually might not be a bad thing

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1 year

I've never been tempted to sue for defamation before, but the fox basher's constant stream of lies is testing the limits of my patience.

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Absolutely normal reaction.

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10 months

@MioHondaFan Allies good Axis bad. Sue me.

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2 years

Canada is so Americanised the leader of the second largest opposition party doesn't even need to state where said verdict took place.

Jagmeet Singh

@theJagmeetSingh

2 years

I know today's verdict is painful for many. It feels like another failure by a broken system designed to protect some and hurt others. For those that carry such grief and must continue to witness denials of justice - my heart is with you.

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2 years

Fondly imagining the British reaction if Boris had done some of the stuff Trudeau has done.

Tristin Hopper

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2 years

Boris Johnson is going to lose his job over a level of scandal that would barely make a week's worth of headlines in Canada.

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1 year

Deleted this poast because people were taking it seriously and I'm a Big Account (TM) now apparently.

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3 years

I'm willing to do a lot to integrate, but I draw the line at pretending new BBC comedy is funny.

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2 years

Decline, pure decline.

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1 year

My review of the most important legal book of 2023.

Bringing Down Goliath by Jolyon Maugham review — the pompous bloviating of a Twitter KC

The word “Twitter” appears but once in the index of Jolyon Maugham’s memoir cum social action manifesto Bringing Down Goliath. But the whole book is very much

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When Robin Cook was Foreign Secretary, he had a huge portrait of an oriental ruler removed from his office because it had the wrong vibe for New Labour Britain. He then welcomed a Nepalese delegation, who were very offended that Cook removed a portrait of their prime minister.

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I was lucky enough to tour Speaker's House recently, and the greatest sight was the official portrait of John Bercow, with a blank panel they kept in anticipation of putting his peerage there.

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10 months

The Allies were five seconds away from extinguishing Germany as an entity forever out of sheer disgust.

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1 year

When the Queen died people left flowers in front of the British embassy in Moscow even though the UK was sending Ukraine tons of weapons used to kill Russian troops. Now her son is welcomed like this by a city levelled by the RAF within living memory. Unmatched cultural power.

Chris Jackson

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Large crowds gathered in Hamburg this morning to catch a glimpse of The King and Queen Consort on the last day of their visit to Germany

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2 years

How do I put this, China wanted Taiwan before semi-conductors were a thing.

Isaac Stone Fish

@isaacstonefish

2 years

How to deter China from invading Taiwan? One suggestion in this article: make it absolutely clear that Taiwan would destroy its own semiconductor industry in the event of an invasion, to prevent China from seizing it.

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1 year

Source (h/t @AlexanderRaikin ).

Kelowna man exasperated as elderly friend struggles to receive healthcare at home - Kelowna News

An ailing elderly Kelowna man is struggling to survive after suffering a medical setback recently.

www.castanet.net

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3 years

Increasingly beginning to believe British political journalists want to break up their own country to have something to write about after Brexit.

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Wait a second

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@cinematicfella

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Jodie Foster in a promotional shoot for The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

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As December beckons, I am pleased to finally announce that I have joined Leiden University @UniLeidenNews as an assistant professor of international relations and international law!

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4 years

My great-grandfather had the right to freedom of expression. That he was shot by the government for using it is neither her nor there, apparently.

Karl Turner MP

@KarlTurnerMP

4 years

@residentadviser Of course everyone has the right to freedom of expression. But that doesn’t mean freedom from the consequences from what they have said. As I understand it, the Police are investigating complaints. And it is right that they should investigate racist behaviour?

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3 years

I don't see how right wingers can recover from this.

Jacobin

@jacobin

3 years

Studying the writings of Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism, reveals something important: that right-wing intellectual thought is little more than a series of dressed-up defenses of conventional social relations and traditional hierarchies.

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My new ambition is to become head of some really obscure international organization with inexplicably wide privileges. Did you know the director of the International Institute of Refrigeration in Paris enjoys diplomatic immunity and pays no French income tax?

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The year is 2100, no new housing has built in Britain for decades, the only people who own houses are those who inherited them, it is a criminal offence to cut down a tree anywhere in London, the NHS provides 99% of all of the UK's employment.

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Not content to name a swimming pool after a prime minister who drowned, Australians also put a forger on a banknote and named a prison after him.

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10 months

The UK should recognise Moroccan sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla and see the reactions.

UK battles to reverse EU endorsement of ‘Islas Malvinas’ name

Buenos Aires celebrates ‘diplomatic triumph’ after summit with European leaders uses Argentine term for Falkland Islands

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My good sir how do you teach compound interests without teaching the maths that goes with it.

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Matthew Parris likes the “kill the weak” argument for euthanasia so much that he wrote it for The Spectator in 2015.

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3 years

Very convincing article about the evils of hereditary privilege from a newspaper controlled by the same family since 1896 (which makes it older than, say, the Norwegian monarchy or indeed the House of Windsor).

Opinion | Down With the British Monarchy (Published 2021)

Any nation that still has a monarchy in 2021 is proving itself to have a mortifying lack of revolutionary gumption.

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2 years

I am delighted to announce that I have been elected a research fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford @HMCOxford . I have loved teaching there over the past several years and I look forward to continuing my happy association with the College.

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Nothing in the British Library's collections has been fetchable for months now because their systems got hacked. Not a single digital legal deposit book is available anywhere in the UK right now. And this is supposed to be available ‘forever’?

Ministry of Justice

@MoJGovUK

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Are you a history or ancestry enthusiast? We’re proposing to digitise millions of wills dating back to the 1800s, making them easier for the public to access. Take a fascinating look into our storage archive in Birmingham and have your say:

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German central banker, c. 1919.

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What French factory workers were reading in 1968. Impressive range of authors and, as many are pointing out in the comments, levels of eloquence.

INA.fr

@Inafr_officiel

2 years

📖 LECTURES 📖 1968, que lisent les salariés d'une usine ? Bouquins classiques, romans ou revues techniques... Le journaliste Michel Polac mène l'enquête. #VendrediLecture

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Can't stop laughing, nothing matters anymore

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3 years

Luckily we'll have Steven Guilbeault's Internet regulation bill to protect us against Chrystia Freeland's fraudulent videos.

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6 months

“has died”

CTV News

@CTVNews

6 months

Canadian peace activist Vivian Silver, who went missing after Hamas attack, has died.

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Yuan Yi Zhu

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Does that mean Jean Chrétien (Minister of Indian Affairs, 1968—74) stands trial at The Hague? Or does he still get a state funeral? How does this thing work?

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Yuan Yi Zhu

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Apropos of nothing: I once met a quant and he's like "what's the data for your project?" and I say "this and this archives" and he's like "how do you quantify it???" and I'm like "no I don't" and he says "how do you do your research then?" and I'm like "I guess I read and think?"

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Yuan Yi Zhu

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Ben Wallace arrested a whole IRA terrorist cell as a young officer and I don't believe I have seen a single picture of him in uniform. Ever.