#Modern

Some insights I wanted to share with you from Tony Deden's speech (in his own words) at the Observer's conference from late 2018.This is PURE GOLD, some incredible gems being
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COVID has exposed a fault line in British society, centred around the level of responsibility people believe government should take for the welfare of the people of this country, and
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Loving re-reading Slim’s ‘Defeat into Victory’. As @UrchTyrone says, one of the best and most readable all round books on military affairs. Slim’s eight lessons from the original Burma defeat
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Thoughts on empire:1. All political power us ambivalent. Vertical violence of ‘the state’ tends to limit horizontal power between people and between tribes. There is new oppression, but also a
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151 Trains to be privatised.Also, Rail Minister talks of local rail manufacturing to promote Make in India.Dear RM,A list of Indian factories is posted here13 of these are PSUsAll created
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"In Pakistan, the outlook has improved markedly since the 2018 general election victory of Imran Khan. In a short period, the country has seen notable improvements in business sentiment and macroeconomic
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The "mansplaining" frame is a method of demonizing normative male behavior. The project is to demoralize males and make them submit to feminine (institutional) authority—say, credentials as opposed to knowing
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1/Remembering Eddie Shack, who played in the first live hockey game I ever attended way back in Sept of 1963. My dad took my 2 older bros & me to
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Been thinking a lot lately about the construction of disability along lines of in/visibility to the medical gaze and I figure I may as well compile these fragmentary thoughts into
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Happy to start my day with @BC_ALA live - EJ Josey’s 1964 Charge: Keep On Pushing! PS: If you did not learn about EJ Josey, BCALA, or the segregation of
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There have been great threads going around about memes with antisemitic origins and n4zi dogwhistles, so I thought as a very fed up Jew I'd make one on another important
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It is far too easy and common for folks to dehumanize mothers. Yes, even other mothers, even ourselves. Mothers are not giving machines, teaching machines, organizing machines, loving machines -
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I started the week deciding to put some finishing touches to my #RTMA2019 paper. I'm now at a point where I can see all my previous work forming into a
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Jacob Rees Mogg is a badly dressed person's idea of a well dressed person.https://twitter.com/TeenageExorcis1/status/1332388616337756160 He doesn't even pull off style within the aesthetic constraints he's given himself. His sui
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I just have lots of thoughts about dilution of the character of Sherlock Holmes in fictional media I want you all to know that I'm physically restraining myself from launching
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Why Bad Architecture Is Destroying Our Civilization It's evident that we're spiraling downwards as a society. Architecture is a big reason why.Thread Modern architecture is objectively bad. It's plain ugly.As
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