#Fortnight

Okay, let’s try this. Every day in August, I’m going to post a recommendation of a foreign language film directed by a woman. Think of it as a version of
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New: The government has wasted at least £150 million on face masks which can't be used by the NHS. The masks were bought from a family investment fund, Ayanda Capital,
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The most creative Coronavirus company pivotsTHREAD ... 1/ Evo Entertainment converted their parking lot into a drive-in movie theatre.It opened a fortnight ago to Spider-Man Homecoming. Every show since has
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We’ve had an incredibly busy fortnight here at the @OpenRightsGroup. Here’s what we’ve done over the past two weeks. Thread @mattr3 & @PascalCrowe released a superb report into the
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Watching Newcastle beat Burnley in an empty stadium at gone 9.30pm on a Saturday night is ... sub-optimal / grim / horrible / unusual / the new normal (and I
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Since Coronavirus hit, I’ve spent 5 weeks in England and the rest of the time in Germany. Thread follows on what I make of each country’s approach. TLDR: public health
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As someone with chronic illness, I have turned to cannabis out of pure desperation after years of struggling to manage my pain. So I’m going to do a little
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Welcome to the next in our #AcademicintheSpotlight series that promotes social scientists doing innovative & dynamic research that you really ought to be aware of. This week is the turn
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This is my AJI! She used to have a pet dog named Chilly and hence she has always been called "Chilly Aji"She turns 92 today! NINETY TWO!Born in Dulhe, her
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A little thread to mark the end of our Summer 2020 delivery at @Ambition_Inst and to thank everyone who's been involved this year.Obviously, this year has been an unusual one.
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Blog from @JohnShirleyLtd "The understaffing of customs clerks will become significant on 31 December 2020. Today, just a minority of forwarders retain customs clerks in EU, all of whom need
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@gavinantonyrice @iainmartin1 WFH is for knowledge/service workers not a negative for productivity (in fact losing commute improves it) and good for levelling up agenda as expenditure moved from city to
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Get involved in our attempt to track #GE2019 campaigns targeting you.Here @ruskin147 & I explain how to help: 2 simple screenshots from your Facebook/other feeds1. The ad2. “why am
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Here at Loop bar for the Automated Culture symposium. @MarkAndrejevic welcomes us over an AI-generated soundtrack to a day of connections and shared logics across different realms #autocult We're
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Hi! My PhD was in virology. Here's my dreary Hot Take about Boris' speech, govt' strategy, and the tedious #cheersBoris-vs-#borisHasFailedBritain hashtags doing battle rn apparently (I was recording a lecture
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the tragic life and death of alice ormsby gore: a thread part 2 alice, also used to being addressed as ‘lady alice’ by her servants imposed this on eric’s friend’s
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