S. Brady
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S. Brady
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Loves rambling about history, politics, justice, monarchy and The Beatles
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This nails it perfectly.
December 26, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.”

- Police Chief in Madison, WI
December 16, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Alastair Campbell roasting a rattled Nigel Farage.🔥

“You are somebody who will exploit any problem going for your own political ends. Brexit was a fundamentally damaging thing to this country. That is your one legacy and you now don’t even want to talk about it.”
#bbcqt
December 8, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t?

This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown

Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it?

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@thetimes.com

🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...
December 1, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Hard to believe how much has changed in 44 years, but Harold Wilson did say: A week is a long time in politics
This is quite the clip of Reagan and Bush debating in the 1980 Republican primary about immigration. Reagan says “we need to open the [Mexican] border both ways” rather than “putting up a fence.” Bush makes similar comments. Both would be laughed out of the GOP today. youtu.be/YsmgPp_nlok?...
George H. W. Bush And Ronald Reagan Debate On Immigration In 1980 | TIME
YouTube video by TIME
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November 15, 2024 at 7:34 PM