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Gonna go on a rant, here. A very Anti-Christmas rant. So if you don't wanna hear it, or think arguing with me about it will do anything, just keep scrolling.Okay?Okay.Rant:
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Bloodthirsty pirates, white slaves, renegadoes and raging Turks. The scourge of Christendom. Terrorists, hostage-takers, treaty-breakers, an early modern ISIS. Or participants in a Mediterranean-wide system of maritime predation, slavery an
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Big story out of Germany this week as a cult player with one of the most iconic stories in the modern game retiring. His name is Kevin Großkreutz, the son
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Once again a Tory Government Minister is saying that the export chaos that is threatening the future of Scottish food businesses amounts to 'teething problems' or is all the fault
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Reposting this cus I made a mistake in prev tweet, it looks as though GBNI movement of goods (NOT NIGB) will- need to go through customs system (CHIEF, now CDS)-
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Mōrena, I haven’t done a thread in ages, but was asked to do one on New Zealand-English so here goes First up,from here on in I’ll be calling it Aotearoa-English,
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How to legislate around the concept of “hate” is currently preoccupying administrations in all parts of the UK and in Ireland, and they are coming to some divergent conclusions. This
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We’ve already seen some noise develop around the shift to vaccinate as many people with one dose initially and extend the gap to the vaccination schedule of two doses 28
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Very sad news. Also leaves the Supreme Court without a justice who specialises in Family law (having had 3 a year ago - both Lady Hale & Lord Wilson retired
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Following @ECHR_CEDH ruling in Hirsi, EU and its Member States developed new #pushback strategies to continue forcing asylum seekers and other migrants outside the European space, without an individual assessment
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@MattHancock @BorisJohnson @10DowningStreet @UN_SPExperts @HumanRightsCtte @Snowden @UNHumanRights @libertyhq @UNWomenUK@piersmorgan @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords@Keir_Starmer @EdwardJDavey @DianaJohnsonMP @HackneyAbbott @DavidLammy @Davi
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Opening up a media / press release thread here on the school reopenings as I get them. Will reply to my own thread as I get stuff. Feel free to
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Just watching America be played for over 6 months straight has been stunning.“George Floyd's brother to deliver testimony at UN urgent debate on racism”https://breaking.iavian.net/article/245435  The W.H.O. (a UN body) is
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EXTREMELY LENGTHY THREAD: trends in attitudes to crossdressing in Great Britain and Ireland between around 1810 and 1850 (+some rampant speculation). #histsex #genderhistory #lgbthistory #archives 1/ Disclaimer: I am not
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History of Space Travel and the Draco involvement, EPIC THREAD. One epoch that should be noted & concern us is the time of the 15th century, is The Renaissance. About
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Breaking - Nicola Sturgeon's government has spent more than £50,000 "preparing" civil servants to give evidence about the Alex Salmond affair at hearings where they suffered "collective memory loss", it
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