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threadFROSTY THE NO MAN1. There's a mystery surrounding the Level Playing Field (LPF) provisions within the trade negotiation between the UK & EU. No-one knows what's going off. It appears
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A Democratic blue swoosh running through the heart of the South.  As if a painter just swiped a blue brush down the edge of Arkansas and Louisiana, and then swooped up
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Scattered points, but somehow interlinked:When did the #UnitedStates start paying attention to the Middle East? Or let me ask in a different formulation, when did the United States realize the
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Besides the revisionist history, the disappointment is he thinks residential schools are a partisan game he can play to score points with.....he just doesn't get it, and it makes me
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Plenty of talk this morning about how UK sovereignty is what is stopping an EU deal, that the EU want to impinge on this.Sorry, the argument is totally bogus. It
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Officers begin to leave: Someone grabbed an officers bike as he tried to leave, the tug of war turns into a big scuffle. About 15 more officers in cars just
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thread UK OK1. Just remember we could now be facing a debt union & sharing €1.8 trillion of an EU bailout. So much for remain & reform!Germany will sacrifice maybe
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+UPDATE+EU & US do deal to open up EU financial markets to US banks.As UK banks have only time limited access to EU financial markets it is likely that without
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Before I tell the story, I should say I first heard it eight years ago from @rkrulwich. And I never forgot it.  Parts of this story might be obvious to some
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I think "Nick's French-English cycling glossary" needs a thread of its own. A proper dictionary of bike racing terms ... picking up on things heard on French TV commentary for
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So many climate and energy questions left unanswered by the new #Brexit trade agreement between the UK and the EU.Over the last week, @FredSimonEU and I at @eaEnergyEU have been
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Thread Time!What REALLY happened at the Capitol on 1/6, and why is it important?I am going to prove that those events are not what MSM is making them out to
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1/ What are the ‘new’ demands the UK says the EU has made in the Brexit talks and are they actually new? There are 3 specific areas of contention that
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Ok here we go. Look at the electoral maps by county for the last few decades of US presidential elections.  You’ll notice that the South goes almost uniformly Republican red every
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C'est l'une des séquences qui restera du débat #VALP d'hier soir : Marine Le Pen se trompe sur les chiffres des titres de séjour, et le Ministre de l'Intérieur et
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Friends,Since I'm very dissatisfied with most media reports on the geophysical events that generated the Rishiganga-Dhauliganga flood in the Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India, on 7 Feb 2021, I'd like to
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