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Alex Church
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The backlash to the backlash to the thing that's just begun
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Fundamental difference: Mauritius didn't invade. They struck a deal with the UK much like the one the Thatcher government had discussed with the Argentine government prior to the invasion

A quote from Grant Shapps implying that Star
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We also need to talk about how once these vehicles became common on the roads in the States that essentially created an arms race, where even drivers who had absolutely no desire to have a huge car felt having one was the only way to be safe whilst on roads chocker block with wannabe APCs

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samuelwade.bsky.social

This smells strongly of careless reliance on machine translation.

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Flying is the worst for this: I've paid for a ticket, playing adverts on the tannoy is an abuse of their position, as is plastering adverts all over vital information for journeys people have paid for

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Fun* fact: the UK Embassy in Tokyo has negative imputed rent because we rent it from the imperial household for one chrysanthemum a year but if we give it up we have to restore it to it's original state as part of the C19th imperial gardens, which would cost millions * For a given definition of fun

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You can take issue with the activistsā€™ actions, but don't for a minute suggest that their underlying motivation is rooted in misapprehension. It is not. Climate activists do, as a rule, appear to have a firmer grasp of climate science than most government ministers.

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Gladwell's latest book includes the below conclusion about who we might target during pandemics (from: www.theguardian.com/books/2024/s...www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... )

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Not 100% onboard with the language of 'apartheid' but the point holds. Waiting for Palestinians to prove they can govern themselves or that a future Palestinian state wouldn't be a threat to Israel is both unjust and almost certainly self-defeating

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Alex Church
@alexchurch.bsky.social
The backlash to the backlash to the thing that's just begun
109 followers1.1k following304 posts