#Economy

The UK is smaller than the EU, sure, but it is not a minnow: major economy, major defence actor, major diplomatic power. The EU27, whether they know it or not,
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This detail in WSJ’s report on CV19 in a La. prison echoes hundreds of other stories—but it’s also just an echo of the slower-moving crisis that this pandemic hijacked: our
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listen and listen good:incels aren’t having sex because they see women as objects, but women aren’t objects, we have agency. the only way to argue that incels are somehow being
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The #Coronavirus accelerates the emergence of what sociologists call “les nouveaux pauvres”; those are not “unfortunate enough”to receive aid, & are not rich enough to live without it. They work
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What would it take for us to find a leader who would just focus on the following 5 (1) Make tax filing really simple, broaden base & start harsh punishments
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All the monopolists are in turn owned by same investors in what is called horizontal shareholding. Controlling stake in leading companies of entire pharma/health industry. Two investors, BlackRock/Vanguard, are biggest
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It is absolutely incredible that it has taken this long for a federal court to rule a state governor's lockdown order unconstitutional.But Judge Stickman did this situation justice. His order
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morning chart. attempt to figure out how I totally missed surge back to work after stay-at-home orders ended last year AND totally missed slower return to work now even with
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Many productions are delayed. No one wants to shoot a bastardised corona version of their show. That's going to impact on huge numbers of crew who won't be in regular
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@michaeljpwalton and I have a new paper out in India Review which looks at the economic performance of Modi 1.0 and considers how Modi 2.0 might play out. Many of
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“[A]dvocates and defense attorneys said police still focus on the city’s poorer, mostly Black neighborhoods because that’s where officer deployments and investigations of violent crime are concentrated.“https://www.washingtonpost.co
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(Read Thread) From a good friend of mine , The World Health Organization, or WHO for short, has not told the world the truth about COVID-19 from the very beginning.
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I have had this retweeted into my timeline several times. Disclaimer: I have no idea who this guy is and have no desire to pick a fight with him or
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.@JohnCornyn wants to make an issue about my language? In this economy and pandemic?Here's what Texans really find offensive: An out of control pandemic that has infected more than 800,000
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a hopefully short thread on Sino-American conflict and World War 3, cos I really fucking need sleep To make things clear, there are three main powers in the Indo-Pacific competing
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Sorry but who is “we”? Are you referring to the capitalist class forcing people back to work because they refuse to give adequate financial support to stay sheltered at home
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