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Thoughts on teaching grammar: 1. A lot of the animus towards teaching grammar seems to come from two radically different views of English language as a subject: If you view
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I was first drawn into this mess when I met up by chance with a senior manager in NHS England. He’d noticed that, despite ITU beds emptying out late spring
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Thread: Does the Sana'ā Manuscript (palimpsest) show that the Qurān has been changed? The Sana'ā Palimpsest is one of the many manuscripts discovered in 1972. It contains a layer containing
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Free advice for all cowardly politicians who are following the flow of bad Covid Policy. Here is your way out of destroying people's lives. First the Facts based on recently
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1/6 Proud to be friend & colleague of Sunetra Gupta, one of world's top epidemiologists, who exposes the outrageous personal attack, shameful false criticisms on expertise, & censorship from biased
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1/ Huge congrats to the @DoorDash team on today’s IPO! As the team celebrates today's milestone, I thought it would be fun to take a walk down memory lane. Here’s
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1) The best way to learn a language, after initialisation [read: knowing 500-1000 words in that language and some basic grammar] is to read serious stuff in it. Every new
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We've updated our statement with some clarifications, excerpted below.First, there is no fiscal relationship between Qiao and the Progressive International. We receive no payment or compensation for the articles that
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Born Ram Lal Bhatia in the town of Taunsa Sharif, in Baloch province, Fikr Taunsvi left for the cosmopolitan city of Lahore in the 1930s. Here he worked with various
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Potential trouble on Border Control Posts (BCPs). This is the minimum infrastructure the EU expects at NI ports by 1 Jan. These are facilities for agrifood checks. But Stormont’s AgriMin
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The History of Connolly BooksThe culture of 1930s Ireland were not receptive to socialist ideas. From the first Coercion Act (1930) under the Free State government of William Cosgrave's Cumann
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What are we doing when we argue about financial market patterns? Why do lawyers try to appeal to a jury's prejudice? A thread on the recently-published "Models to Persuade" by
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Gather round, writers. Let’s talk about what literary agents do and whether you need one. This is mainly going to be oriented towards comics/graphic novel people but prose folks, I’ll
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Armed groups plotting against the inauguration and statehouses are propelled by the myth that the election was stolen, and that they're acting in support of Trump.It is on Republicans in
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1/ GLOBAL Suicidology 2020World-first data!Every nation so far that has reported its suicide rates for 2020, compared to previous years. No change since 2019 (but down from 2017).Despite a global
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The BBC has revealed that it has taken down links to charities that support #trans children and young people like @Mermaids_Gender following "audience complaints" about them. Anyone who understands the
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