#World

Ok. Who's ready for a thread? A breakdown of South Korea v Italy from the 2002 World Cup: Was Italy "cheated" as bad as people want us to think or
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Hype. I would really like to talk about it.It's a word that is used on the regular in the book world. Over-hyped. Under-hyped. Wombling Hype.But recently, a couple of lovely
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I'm very pleased and proud to have led a great UK team to secure today's excellent deal with the EU.Both sides worked tirelessly day after day in challenging conditions to
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Vogons are back.We were called away to chair a very important galactic forum, leaving a handful of guards (who are not allowed on Twitter) behind to look after things. Well,
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This morning, a lot of people thinking about The Turner Diaries, so here is some history. Turner Diaries is a novel that imagines a successful coup by white power activists
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A brief John Lewis story:He came to speak at convocation my freshman year at MU. He was inspiring, witty, powerful; all the things you'd expect.When I met up with my
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Thread: 2020 has been an awful year in so many ways. But it has also produced some brilliant, beautiful writing. Sharing here some of the best I've read this year,
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No system is perfect for as long as people are involved as we aren’t perfect. In light of the current atmosphere I’ve had to go into another passion of mine
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If you haven’t read Orwell’s 1984, now is a great time. I’ll gift 20 copies—digital or physical—to the first 20 people who RT and comment something you believe but have
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This podcast I'm listening to is annoying the hell out of me. "Around 80,000 years ago, some homo sapiens got adventurous, and left Africa." This simple, subtle turn of phrase
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Under this post is where I will transcribe (hopefully every other day) an in-depth analysis of each Gintama opening Pray - Tommy heavenly6 (Gintama opening 1) The first ten seconds
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The JCPOA was built on four (false) foundations:1) The sanctions regime was crumbling.2) Iran’s program is peaceful in nature.3) The JCPOA blocks all pathways to a bomb.4) The alternative was
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The sleight of hand to replace “Science” with “Scientific Consensus” is the most damaging development of pandemic buffoonery. Replacing Science with Consensus, and then censoring any unorthodox idea as misinformation
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Before 1920 it was common for British Evangelical Christians to campaign for great social reforms whilst still proclaiming their Christian faithhttps://twitter.com/StPaulsFinchley/status/1344240072657428486 Christian scholar Ralph Winter ha
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I am afraid @LindsayHoyle_MP parliament appears to be descending into a place of disrepute .Jacob Rees Mogg shows no respect for other members of the house, indeed appears to take
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The Mohs scale uses a "can you scratch me?" test to determine the relative hardness of materials, with diamond at 10 being able to scratch anything else. Any material higher
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