#2020

Superb piece on Mourinho's in-game management during his first Chelsea spell. This is the one area of his overall management package that I feel no-one can criticize or fault him
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Fred Hampton at 21 was able to take the best parts of Maoism and apply it to current conditions while organizing humans. He wasn't trying to build a community garden
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A long read this week on how Xi is remaking China's economy. Conventional wisdom is that he's reverting to a statist model at the private sector's expense: a sure-fire recipe
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We romanticize and resent youth as a time of non-stop fun and partying, but the reality is much different. Young people are often really lonely and struggle with social isolation.https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/07/04/88554628
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Dec 2019 - UCP “structural weakness in the provincial economy that remains concentrated and dependent on non-renewable resources...which causes volatility...with no near-term expectation of a significant rebound in oil-related investments
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And reform begins with acceptance of some grim and unwanted realities. The problems are not "on both sides." The illiberal authoritarianism of some dean of students somewhere is not equivalent
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As Fox News Support for Trump Wavers, Murdoch Family StrugglesKathryn Murdoch had a little-noticed Election Day tweet that hinted at her reputational concerns. “What will you tell your children or
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SSWU Chicago stand in solidarity with @AnjanetteYoung, a Chicago social worker who was handcuffed naked and mistreated by CPD when they raided her home by mistake last February. Body cam
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Common question: Do we vaccinate patients with immune impairment? This group, which includes patients on chemo, transplant recipients, HIV, etc. are at high risk, but there's little data on vaccine
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£2.4 billion was pulled from pensions in the three months to the end of December last year, a 6% increase year-on-year from £2.2 billion withdrawn throughout the same months in
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I've been following @DailyFrail's work for more than a decade: he's an open-access musician and music teacher who has taught hundreds - thousands - of people to play banjo through
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So many wins! Despite everything that is still going on across the world, our country can still pull out a win. #Canada's economy in 2020 just beat the United States
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LONG THREAD ALERT - it's time for my Books of 2020 and I couldn't whittle it down to just a handful... But the weather isn't much good for going out,
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Merry Christmas: A bunch of your elected representatives in Congress used COVID relief funds to bail out their own companies — then blocked aid to average workers and voted against
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Recent scholarship has called attention to how Western-centric biases shape our understandings of war --- including which belligerents & wars matter for our studies. A quick thread, drawing on data
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UK NAO watchdog on vaccine spend: over £11bn committed; indemnity protection for pharmacompanies in event of liabilities/legal action due to adverse effects: in 4 out of five contractsagreed, no cap
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