#1980s

Traitors Of Kashmir

KashmirTraitors

Thread on #JKLF(1/n)The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), altogether with its twin centers in Pakistan administered #JK and UK, initiated armed insurgency in the #Kashmir Valley in the mid-1980s with

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

Fair point - I've had a few comments like this about that part of the thread. My tendency to draw comparisons/see patterns often irritates people too.So - why did I

Pamela Herd

pamela_herd

Debates over the minimum wage are as much about politics, as they are about the research. The push for a minimum wage actually came from early 20th century progressive eugenicists

Max Harris

maxdnharris

After discussions abt how well National's frontbench is positioned to represent NZ, I’m interested in its views on the place of the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti in particular). Coming

Melinda Karp

MelindaKarp

Really sitting with this piece and feeling very, very conflicted. No doubt, this is a fantastic program for the students who participate. Potentially life-changing at the individual level. But... (1/)https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/po

ExpectedChelsea

ExpectedChelsea

A long thread on why Kepa is the biggest issue at Chelsea right now, more than the defenders, manager or anyone else. His signing sums up everything that is wrong

Adam Tranter

adamtranter

A thread on Play Streets - how society demonised children, briefly gave them places to play before shunning them for cars. And what might be next?1835: Highway Act bans street

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

The "center" of American politics is not a fixed point, it shifts over time. What is "the center" today would have been considered pretty far left in the 1990s. Likewise,

Gimba Kakanda

gimbakakanda

My @LSEnews dissertation is an attempt to understand the sincerity and bargaining skills of Nigerian political elites in Beijing, which I referred to as China Shop. This trending claim that

Christine Burns MBE 🧜‍♀️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈📚⧖

christineburns

It was in the 1980s, almost forty years ago, that I first recall seeing clinical statistics estimating the prevalence of transsexualism. In those days it was claimed repeatedly that Male

Reid Wilson

PoliticsReid

We don’t have final 2020 Census data yet — and we won’t have all of it for a long time — but the trend lines are pretty clear. Here’s what

Antoine Moyroud

antoine_moyroud

Payment For Order Flow (PFOF) has been under the spotlight recently, I thought it would be interesting to look into how it came to be.. First a quick visual primer,

President-Elect James Delingpole

JamesDelingpole

Here is Establishment journalist Libby Purves in Establishment newspaper @thetimes embellishing a lie repeated by the Guardian and originating in a book by Peter York and Patrick Barwise. They have

Tuomas Malinen

mtmalinen

Few important points considering #Centralbanks . A thread."When central bank accrues a loss beyond its stream of net interest rate income (gross interest income minus expenses) and seigniorage, it starts

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

Today in pulp I look back at the world of Soviet women's fashion!It's not all berets, but it mostly is... Now you may think that fashion and the Soviet Union

Alison Weir 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🟥 💚🤍💜

WeirAlison

A thread...1./ The IOCs decision to make no ruling on the participation of transwomen athletes in female sport before Tokyo2020 confirms that the IOC like many others have forgotten how

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