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#COVID19AB is not going well. I have been asked repeatedly to comment on the effect of temporary measures on the economy. People seem to be worried about this question: (1)
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It has all gone belly up since the relaxation of lockdown was mooted. 1. Stupid levels of pressure for a plan from a media trying to fill papers and an
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NEW from this week’s @newyorker, ⁦@cduhigg⁩: Seattle’s leaders moved fast to persuade people to stay home and follow the scientists’ advice; New York’s leaders...moved more slowly, offered more muddied messages,
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I just watched the Jeffrey Epstein documentary where he was being exposed by one of the women who he had molested and trafficked when she was only 14. It was
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In 2012, Joyce Banda became Malawi's first female president & Africa's second. Following the disastrous last years of Bingu wa Mutharika, she had enough goodwill to last her a lifetime.But
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When I was little, but just old enough to know that "see oh too" was causing "global warming", I would purposely try to hold my breath for as long as
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Marx's writing on the American Civil War are incredible, especially as he was mainly observing it from a desk in the British Library. He correctly identified it as a war
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[Long random musing.]Human beings love stories, and one of the most unsettling things about the world is that it isn't a story, doesn't make sense & doesn't have a logical
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On a day where the Buhari govt is trying to give the #EndPoliceBrutality protest a political colouration, Omojuwa is out there trying to inject a #NASSPayCutNow agitation into the protest
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... Look, here's the thing: it's not just the courts. Republicans cheat. They cheat in a really fundamental way, and in ways Democrats aren't smart enough to.Wisconsin last night was
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A lot of us journos who knew Boris from his city hall days have said this since the beginning.Boris likes the IDEA of leadership more than leading. Same as he
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A thread about #FreeSchoolMeals, @MarcusRashford and campaigning for public and political will: 1) The papers are packed, feeds are full and Ministers are being ‘Marred’ on prime time political programmes.
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Important graphs for Dutch journalists, politicians, and pundits. The Netherlands has the lowest (!) level of "affective polarization" and the lowest (!) level of "out-party dislike" from group of 20
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It's well known at this point, India's history as written is biased & often completely false. It's been written by foreign invaders & politicians with agenda & bias.Take back your
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Let me prepare your minds for what's about to happen as the #EndSarsProtests gain ground. It is not going to be pretty, it will not always be this un-confrontational. It
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Reading the "Black Codes" passed by southern states during Reconstruction, placing freed people into conditions as close to slavery as they could make themSherman should've mowed the deep south like
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