#Restraint

In response to the #yegcc discussions on defunding EPS, some thoughts on deescalation in potentially violent situations, from a Registered Nurse with a background in forensic psychiatric settings. A (probably)
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My timeline today has been largely filled with UK folks explaining why they're choosing to travel/visit at Christmas. And also with some (far less) people telling them they're assholes because
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Oliver O'Donovan once said 'to see yourself as a people is a work of moral imagination'. True of most 'bodies' we belong to. If my party SNP is where we
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#JohnnyDepp #AmberHeard #DomesticAbuse. Here’s @SolaceWomensAid’s statement: 1. “This libel trial, focused on the reputation of one of the worlds highest profile and well known Hollywood actors will of course generate
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Thinking about the rule of law? You maybe thought Michael Cohen was returned to prison for dining out.Looks like he was reimprisoned for refusing to stop publishing a book about
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Today's the day. @newsobserver, joined by other media outlets, will fight for the release of the DHHS death investigation records of John Neville. Neville died in Dec. 2019 after being
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http://1.Today  I retweeted an interview that my constituent and stalwart Labour Party supporter Maxine Peake gave to the Independent. Its main thrust was anger with the Conservative Government’s handling of
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A thoughtful essay by Law Wing-sang, comparing HK and post-1968 Czechoslovakia, echoing Jan Patocka's notion of “solidarity of the shaken”“Who Killed God? How can the shaken unite?”https://news.mingpao.com/pns/%e5%89%af%e5%88%8a
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i think wwx’s general “obliviousness” is sometimes overstated in fanon bc in a society upheld by courtesy and convention, there was no reason for wwx to believe that the illustrious
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Michelle hits this exactly right. There isn't a happy answer here. If you feel conflicted, you're right.But that reflects a deeper fact of Trump, and those like him: They leave
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Here is a quick initial thread on my initial reflections on Gov’s Reforming the #MentalHealth Act White Paper in terms of rights and protections for children and young people (CYP):
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If the Chinese have Sun-Tzu, we also have our own Nitishastra and Arthashastra.Everything fundamental about human attitude to war has been explained in texts like Shantiparva.Chinese take recourse to their
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A large part of Punjab the urban middle class in cities & town in the industrial belt hasnt come out. The Punjabi Khatris comprise most of it. A large part
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What was unique about the airstrikes in Syria last night?  They were fairly extensive, deep in Syrian territory, targeting a wide variety of targets connected to Iran and its proxies,
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I saw a video of a charming young boy online asking his mom to ‘calm down’ as she was set to punish him for a misdemeanour. I was moved by
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I’m increasingly concerned by how totally unsubstantiated claims are slipped in media reports and journos’ tweets. Today, it was that Republicans sought to disenfranchise black voters but still celebrated MLK
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