#Europe

The deep & ambivalent histories of #Cicero’s ‘salus populi suprema lex esto’, ‘the health of the people should be [not is!] the supreme law’, span everything from ‘the health of
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Deaths:UK - 891 per millionIreland - 335 per millionThat's according to The Times analysis of UK's excess.It's understated how much of an achievement this was from Ireland to have such
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This is our friend Sami. This week he tried to get to the UK but, because he can’t afford to pay smugglers, he got in an inflatable kayak with 3
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How can we monitor human populations in bulk for coronavirus?Track their sewage!In general, if test availability is an issue, pooled samples could ameliorate that shortage, e.g. running one test on
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when i met you girl my went knock knock now them in my wont stop stop even tho its a struggle is all we got so we
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Screams in 2ha P4P merch bc it's 1:30am*bangs a pot anyways* GET UR PAIN HERE!!! GET IT HERE!!I should probably go to sleep, but I also have a MDZS washi
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Not only does the UK have the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in Europe (& second highest in the world) but we also clocked up those deaths faster than any
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Anyone who thinks the centre-left needs to “get a handle on immigration” in order to defeat the rise of the far-right clearly hasn’t heard of New Labour. Let's take a
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On the left, London's new water fountains. Oh the right, a Victorian example. The collapse in quality is profound and goes far beyond design. We appear to have lost any
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A sign that nature is healing? I was sat on a park bench alone and a stranger strikes up a conversation, asks what I'm knitting. We start talking about books
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[A thread] If we can just pause the rhetorical clash of civilisations for a moment. The beheadings are horrific and are an assault on our common humanity, so please move
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Among the most poisonous legacies of the era of European colonialism and slavery is the idea of race. Silvia Sebastiani and I have explored a little of the history of
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Top 10 #FakeNews of the week #Coronavirus: 1. A video clip shared by #KiranBedi on Twitter with the claim that the eggs thrown away by people due to #coronavirus
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Mesut Özil had 4 undisputed world class seasons at Arsenal. #MÖLegacy a thread: A quick look at Özil’s numbers in those seasons: 13/14 - 101 cc, 14 assists, 7 goals15/16
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I want to take you down memory lane. This is going to be a list of times the EU or it’s member states have ignored EU treaties or international law,
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Britain is doing more #COVID19 testing than any other country in Europe. Really! So how on earth are we now in a situation where the testing system is on its
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