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Alistair King
Alistair_King
1/ Great interview of Lord Heseltine by @mrjamesob on @LBC earlier. Really crystallised some thoughts that have been with me at least since the referendum. I’ve never voted Tory but
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Yaneer Bar-Yam
yaneerbaryam
We are already paying the price of the perpetual soft lockdown, and opening and closing the economy, because we can’t open up without causing so many cases that we have
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Kiran Nazish
kirannazish
Today we call attention to the massive increase of violations against #womenjournos spreading around the world. In #2020 alone, the @CFWIJ documented 387 targeted attacks on #women #journalists. That is
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Damon Evans
damocrat
I‘m a democrat. I believe in democratic elections. I don’t believe in attempting to topple governments, unless it is *absolutely* necessary.We had an election in 2019. We lost. We may
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo
KHandozo
OH MY GODhttps://twitter.com/louisathelast/status/1320379801757192198 Gonna just gesture to this threadhttps://twitter.com/khandozo/status/806171938234077184?s=21 My thread refers to American history, but I don’t think it’s irrelevant t
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Shehla Rashid
Shehla_Rashid
It was fake news all along, yet you believed it. Not only did you believe it, you shared it further, because it reaffirmed your belief that the other community is
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Colin McKay
DerorCurrency
Sounds exactly like Judaism:"However, rich and powerful individuals gradually began to dominate the qahals, abusing their position for their own benefit. As a result ... many ordinary Jews had begun
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Black Mask, Yellow Skin🌹🇯🇵🇬🇧🇸🇽🌏
HomoSacer3
Our analysis shows that Corbyn was thoroughly delegitimised as a political actor from the moment he became a prominent candidate and even more so after he was elected as party
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Jason
Dr_JSA
This is a great thread. China's investment in the African continent is bearing fruit IMO.For every country like Ghana and Kenya that the West counts on as allies there are
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Michael Schuman
MichaelSchuman
I think Xi Jinping should watch “Hamilton.” That would be a good starting point to help him figure out how his China lost nearly every friend it had in Washington.
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Eighth Century Woodchipper 🌳🪓
BonifaceOption
Thread reminds me: was listening to podcast recently where they described how liberal global order democracies a place. Each country added to the global liberal hegemony must have a ruling
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Cesc Amat
cescamat
Happy to share a new working paper “Pandemics meet democracy: experimental evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Spain”, which is joint work with @AndreuArenas (UB-IEB), @afalcogimeno (UB-IPERG) and @jordimunozm (UB-IPERG).
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Chris Alexander 🌻
calxandr
As Ukrainian forces advance, let’s look at what a decisive Ukrainian victory & full Russian defeat might mean. For over 20 years, Putin’s Russia has arguably been the main force
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Filipe Brito Bastos
F_Brito_Bastos
Rules of procedure - QMV and unanimity - exist for a reason. Can we really imagine a scenario where the frugals, knowing they'd be outvoted anyway, would become more cooperative?
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David Frum
davidfrum
No more happy talk about the "uniquely American transition of power." Trump presidency and this post-election period confirm that the US is *less* committed to democratic norms - and has
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Maitreya Bhakal
MaitreyaBhakal
The election results in Hong Kong - as well as in other democracies like India and US - raise an important question:Is democracy - with universal suffrage - simply mob
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