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Derry Long
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Retired. From more than work.
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Oooh, look at Sainsbury’s, with their fancy new Latin motto like they’re bleedin hogwarts

Grow up
January 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Vive la France.
December 7, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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To understand journalism, you need to know the five W's:

Who wrote this?
What were they smoking?
Where do they find these people?
When will this stop?
Why did the editors publish it?
December 6, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Notre Dame re-opens 7 and 8 December. “There will be light”.
November 26, 2024 at 12:30 AM
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Reports of fireball in sky around 9pm, anyone catch it on camera?
November 25, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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Today's Gardening Advice: Micro-climates can occur within a neighborhood, a yard, or even just a small area within a garden. Things like stone walls, painted sides of homes, large boulders, tree windbreaks, proximity to a body of water, and many other factors can alter a garden climate. 🌱
November 25, 2024 at 11:34 AM
GE polls causing media stir. A “crisis” allegedly. I even saw “an emergency podcast” scheduled. You can only marvel at the detachment from ordinary people’s reality that this stuff is.
November 25, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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“Neutrality law is a musty and obsolete body of international law that nevertheless rears its creaky head now and again in dangerous ways, most recently in the Russia-Ukraine conflict”
Ingber on Neutrality Law, https://buff.ly/3Okktyb Rebecca Ingber (Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law) has posted Against Neutrality (forthcoming, Virginia Journal of International Law) on SSRN.
buff.ly
November 22, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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The Government has been warned by senior officials that this is an especially challenging time for global peace and economic security, with potentially serious consequences for Ireland, including economically.
November 21, 2024 at 8:32 AM
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I wrote the book I wish I’d had when I was starting out. It’ll be available as paperback or ebook next month. Sharing the Amazon link here because it includes the reviews / testimonials from the back cover. #history #AcademicWriting 🗃️

www.amazon.com/Craft-Histor...
Amazon.com: The Craft of Historical Research: A Practical Guide from Start to Finish: 9783031684562: Land, Isaac: Books
Amazon.com: The Craft of Historical Research: A Practical Guide from Start to Finish: 9783031684562: Land, Isaac: Books
www.amazon.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Murdoch media.
If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.

If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
November 19, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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November 19, 1863:

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal…”

1/x
November 19, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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China and India should not be called developing countries, several Cop29 delegates say
China and India should not be called developing countries, several Cop29 delegates say
Poor country delegates say classifications that date back to 1992 are obsolete and two countries ‘should be contributing’ China and India should no longer be treated as developing countries in the same way as some of the poorest African nations are,…
dlvr.it
November 19, 2024 at 5:17 PM