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Every healthy democracy in the world imposes checks & balances on the exercise of power. Those checks may be constitutional, legal, conventional or merely ethical, but they're crucial if democracy
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Thread:Single performances winning you tests are rare, and as a batsmen nearly impossible as a team need 20 wkts to win. So the argument that a player performs in 'wins'
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@Alexander_Lees My perspective on the reintroduction of lynx to the UK in answer to @DrHWeb’s thread in which he makes the comment below. (A thread)1/16https://twitter.com/DrHWeb/status/1352984737288048640 Any 2 farmers will argue
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A thread on #Lebanon's rapidly accelerating economic collapse as the hyperinflation drives the lira above 9,000 at a rate of 471%/yr up from 1,500 in September (surpassing Zimbabwe). Most Lebanese's
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(Thread) Why Luke’s character isn’t ruined in The Last Jedi:Luke skywalker son of the chosen one anakin skywalker. Many people believe this boy is the perfect Jedi which he is
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The govt’s Agriculture Bill1. Ditches British Animal Welfare standards2. Will mean UK is flooded with cheap low quality food.3. Will put UK farms at huge disadvantage4. Uk will not be
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Legend of venkateshwara:Ramanuja asked ananthazhwar to raise a flower garden for lord tirumala hill. Ananthazhwar abided by the request and went upon raising a garden. He took the help of
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I’m very grateful to @rhona_ramsay for introducing me to this phenomenal c.1500 brooch made by a ceard (a Gypsy/Traveller craftsperson) in Lochbuie on the Isle of Mull.Now in the @britishmuseum
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A cultivated Conservative friend of mine once exhibited great distress because in a gay moment I once called Edmund Burke an atheist. I need scarcely say that the remark lacked
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It is worth pointing out again that Newt Gingrich is one of the chief inspirations for the downfall of the Republic in Star Wars. Newt Gingrich is where Nute Gunray
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Some 100% real Hansard quotes from my look at the history of space environmentalism in the 1950s-60s.1. M. Foot (16/05/1963): "Does [the PM] think that the United States Government have
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Just a short thread showing the vast abundance of native wildflowers found in our roadside hedgerows, showing the importance of resisting the urge to mow during the summer season....... Spear
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Oh no, here we go (again)https://twitter.com/AllieHBNews/status/1304884902173736960 The article is hopelessly confused - talk about 'opting out' of Human Rights Act. I assume it means opting out of parts of European
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My defense of the American War of Independence:A lot of trads are very critical of America because they see a rebellion of republicans away from a monarch. I think the
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Having now read the Telegraph story about possible @UKSupremeCourt reform by the government, I think that several premises/suggestions are misconceived.Here’s a (slightly longer than I intended) thread with some thoughts1/https://www.tele
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1/NEW blog Professor Robert Hazell sets out how the Fixed-term Parliaments Act can be improved, following the creation of a committee to consider its future @JointCtteeFTPA, and a draft government
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