#Servants

So Treasury civil servants were kept informed, or even directing, all seizures of business customers' property assets by West Register, the property company owned by RBS? From page 97 of
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Was Brexit a product of "imperial nostalgia"? In a new article - currently on free access in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History - I argue that it was
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Tulips, the #Bitcoin of the 17th centuryHow a pandemic, FOMO, and speculation made a flower worth the same as a mansion/THREAD/ 1/ During the beginning of the 1630s in
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Time for the AOTY thread!>10 seasonals out of everything I watched and liked best this year>I did not watch every single show that aired (obviously)>This is my personal taste, it's
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Let me tell you a story...(THREAD) about a small group of public servants gathered from all over #GoC in early 2020 to figure out how much #PPE was enroute to
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Last night’s #RTEInvestigates told harrowing stories of three people who found themselves with no alternative but to sleep in a doorway, a tent by the canal, and a utilities room
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Inside No10: fears of new Covid strains, the desire to avoid another lockdown at all costs and a new team have replaced 2020’s boosterism with 2021’s “cautious pragmatic approach”@FinancialTimes latest
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A thread on #bridgertonnetflix (OR, why we get this shlock instead of a Haitian Revolution epic!)#BRIDGERTON is a post-racialist fantasy. In its utopian world, Blacks & whites are
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"Coups d'état are one of the main ways in which new dictatorshipsare established. ... A coup d'état is a rapid seizure of physical and political control of the state apparatus
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In traditional Sanskrit scholarship, the works on grammar are a must for understanding word formation and meaning. So essentially, grammar replaces dictionary! In parallel, there will be descriptive word repositories
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Did Army stop other institutions from building their capacity?Pseudo intellectuals with limited knowledge (gained from electronic, print & social media) are trying to portray the entry of Pak Army in
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The Special Convention for the @greenparty_ie was a very interesting event but I feel there was some key context missing from how much of win was negotiated in the key
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.@j_remy_green dropping so much knowledge on the history of the #USPS. Knowing the history and case law makes what is happening now even more tragic. Lets discuss the current sabotage
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A number of Trump appointees have tried to burrow into long-term public service jobs. Biden is firing them, which right wing commentators are trying paint as politicization. The reality is
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I obviously have quite a lot going on today, what with @TessaRDavis testing positive - but Brexit has dominated my personal and professional life for quite a while & I'd
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Today's stories of carceral Catholicism in Ireland make for unbelievably grim reading. They sit alongside the horror stories we (*those who want to know) have already heard about Mother &
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