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Writing a book on Labour’s existential struggles during 1976-2024 for Polity. Expertise summary & contact: .
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A Dutch TV report on the British crisis focusing on local govt & the NHS, mostly in English. All very depressing, and my contribution doesn’t help. This is how others (rightly) see us now. via
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So let’s get this right: Starmer must prove he’s *not* guilty after the police find him innocent; but Johnson *is* innocent despite the police finding him guilty.
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Those suggesting Labour has an issue to answer re: not yet having a woman as leader might reflect on the fact that currently 52% of Labour MPs are women while only 25% of Conservative MPs are.
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@J_Bloodworth
When I was at Cambridge Labour students invited him to speak. completely without any consultation he stayed in the most expensive hotel & billed us. Had we paid it we would’ve been bankrupted. So we didn’t.
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This show has been terrible from its inception: the format, the presenter, etc; but this is its nadir. Her rattled response is hilarious.
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Let me get this right, & correct me if I’m wrong: the SNP and the Conservative party are kicking up a fuss because they have been frustrated in their attempt to embarrass the Labour Party by highlighting what they hoped would be divisions over the terrible situation in Gaza?
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Enough of the best films: what is the worst film you’ve ever seen?
Mine is Peter’s Friends.
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Much of the praise for Corbyn on Twitter boils down to people thanking him for making them feel good about themselves. It’s a very narcissistic definition of political success.
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In fact they’ve given Starmer the chance to completely change perceptions of him & his party - & put further pressure on the Conservatives. Brilliant stuff.
As Durham Constabulary are poised to reinvestigate Sir Keir Starmer over beergate, Tory spads were told this morning that it was one of most successful CCHQ attacks on Labour in recent history
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Corbyn neutral by 2020.
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What is wrong with what appears to be a series of attack ads? Sunak wants voters to think he has no responsibility for anything before becoming PM. Lab wants to emphasise the shortcomings of Con rule since 2010 & he is now the party leader. Isn’t this legitimate?
13 years of Tory failure has broken our justice system.
Victims wait months if not years for justice, while dangerous criminals avoid prison.
Labour will prevent crime, punish criminals, and protect communities.
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The polls are now so bad for the Conservatives The Sun is soon going to have to think about endorsing Labour to show that it’s leading public opinion.
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Once
@TheIndGroup
becomes a party who knows what will happen? There's a significant % of voters looking for something that isn't Labour or Conservative.
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A teetotaller pulling pints: if that’s not a metaphor for Sunak’s campaign I don’t know what is.
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I think Starmer has just made his left critics look very silly but more importantly has shown up Johnson’s lack of firm leadership.
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Willy Wonka: an action packed movie but also a sobering warning about poor supervision of children in the workplace.
London Has Fallen is an action packed movie which also is a sobering warning about the potential escalation of Islamic Supremacists efforts
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Until now I gave him the benefit of the doubt. But it's now difficult not to come to the conclusion that Jeremy Corbyn is a very English antisemite. He won't think he is, but he needs to look in the mirror.
Corbyn uses classic antisemitic tropes about the disloyal Jew who is unable and unwilling to assimilate and adapt to his “host country”. Each time in history these ideas have become commonplace they have been followed by persecution. via
@MailOnline
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I'm very much against Labour politicians like
@jessphillips
wearing posh clobber for the cameras of the MSM.
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Orwell wrote in The Road to Wigan Pier that people actually liked socialism but were put off it by those who called themselves socialists.
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Married a hair dresser.
if you’d know what was about to happen what would you have done differently in the previous six months ?
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I’m glad recent events have not dented her hyper-self-confidence. A private education is a wonderful thing.
"I think there should be a complete overhaul of the economy, because this is just ad hoc corporate welfare."
Author and economic commentator Grace Blakeley on why the country needs a "fundamental overhaul" of the way the economy works
#Newsnight
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If you're on Sky News I think that means the media is covering it ...
Every Palestinian civic society organisation has warned of IHRA’s chilling effect on freedom of speech. So why isn’t the media covering it?
@AyoCaesar
on Sky News.
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But whatever you do, *don’t* say that Labour did well in 2017 because of shortcomings in the Conservative campaign.
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Breaking: David Miliband resigns as Ed Miliband's brother.
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@RobBurl
I have not seen Lycett before & normally agree comedians should be kept off politics shows but he completely punctured the usual cosy conventions of such shows. A shame it won’t happen again.
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The crucial point: Labour won’t let Sunak repeat John Major’s trick in 1992.
Labour defends Sunak attack ads as it turns fire on PM’s wife
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So Chorlton Labour Party, the biggest ward in the northwest, just passed this motion with just one against
@JewishLabour
@supergutman
@JeffSmithetc
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Am I being unfair in thinking Corbyn would have opposed Attlee joining Churchill’s coalition - at least until the German invasion of the Soviet Union?
EXCLUSIVE Labour must not join national unity Government amid coronavirus crisis, Jeremy Corbyn warns in first ever interview with The Telegraph Here the full interview on
@chopperspodcast
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@RobDotHutton
Jacob was so opposed to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 he invested £60 million in a Moscow bank. I expect the EU must’ve forced him to do this.
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What, in the end, was the point of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership?
Serious answers only please.
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Whoever wins this by-election, I’d say Owen Jones has probably lost it.
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Corbyn lads: feel free to tweet your sneers at
@jessphillips
if you must. But it’s not a good look when taken altogether. One reason Labour lost was because the party became incapable of seeing how others saw it. You might want a period of reflection.
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He has been, quite consistently, and sadly it’s been hardly reported.
Keir Starmer needs to make the case for a better nation – not sling mud:
@Independent
Editorial
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Labour’s candidate for Bournemouth East in 2019 🧐
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A dishonest & cowardly piece. He tries his best to appear to say one thing but read it carefully & he is saying another i.e. HIS rejection of the Labour party under Blair is morally superior to YOUR rejection of the party under Corbyn.
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How many times has Owen Jones written this article? I think he has reached the stage of plagiarizing himself.
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@Samfr
@KateAndrs
I’ve no idea about the personal attacks, but she is an archetype for the way in which the mainstream media is polluted and distorted with hard right views masquerading as pragmatism.
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The BBC isn't the 'state broadcaster'. Chris should know what one of those is, having been on RT so many times.
The BBC needs to get a grip. This is unacceptable from the state broadcaster 👇
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The Conservatives have become the weird party & are set to become even weirder. It’s only our right-wing media that makes us think otherwise, a media that’s dragging the party ever further to the margins.
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A literally incredible piece from Corbyn. Give peace a chance he says. But how do you persuade Putin of that? No answer is forthcoming.
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“I can assure you there is widespread resentment in the party at your activities and a period of silence on your part would be welcome.”
Owen Jones argues that should Labour lose
#BatleyandSpen
, Starmer must resign.
"This has been an experiment in a leadership having no vision whatsoever."
#TyskySour
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This is political funding by any other name. The station is subsidising figures on the far right & the hard right of the Conservative party. It is a political actor.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is receiving £32,083 a month, or £802 an hour, to host a show on the loss-making GB News.
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I mentioned the leaked Labour dossier to a colleague last night on Skype & all I got was a blank look. Labour: you are a microdot on the horizon, even to people with a professional interest in Politics. Let that sink in.
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With this level of support from the crowd there's no way the Captain of the Titanic is going to hit an iceberg.
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The ‘people are concerned about X’ line is now being used on an industrial scale by Conservatives. It’s clever in a low-level-evil kind of way but it’s effectively introducing conspiracism into the mainstream while being able to claim you aren’t doing it.
Just a government minister openly spreading a far right conspiracy theory, even after being challenged on it
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May doesn't want a vote on her deal till it's too late for anything but that or No Deal.
Corbyn doesn't want a no confidence vote till it's too late to have a Referendum.
They're both running down the clock.
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'Centrism' is not an ideology; other than as an insult it does not and has never existed.
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You're a conspiracy theorist.
Call me a conspiracy theorist: 1. Labour doing well in polls. 2. Overblown rage (as opposed to open discussion) about anti-Semitism code. 3. Hodge does sweary shouty thing. 4. Blair does long TV interview. 5. Standing orders motion in HoC. 6. Call for a new party?
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Starmer should say now that if he’s fined he will resign. When/if he isn’t fined what a strong position he’ll be in and how bad will Johnson look?
Starmer now has the ultimate weapon to bring down the PM. If he gets a fine, he can quit as Leader of the Opposition. The precedent would be so powerful.
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Bernard Donoghue's impression of his local Labour Party, June 1976.
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I always suspected that Ted Heath provoked the Second Cod War in the hope of improving the Conservatives' chances in the Rochdale by-election of October 1972.
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Loach rejoined Lab in 2015 to transform it into a party he wanted it to be: ie like his own party Left Unity, which stood against Miliband’s Lab. Once inside he called for those opposing his project to be kicked out. This is one of the consequences of the failure of that ambition
'Labour HQ finally decided I'm not fit to be a member of their party, as I will not disown those already expelled. Well...' KL
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So many people are telling
@Keir_Starmer
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The problem with Sarkar is not that what she says about race is all wrong. But she deliberately says it in such a way as to attract attention so as to keep those media gigs coming & so she reinforces division rather than attempt reconciliation.
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Just the Conservatives after 1979; Labour after 1997; and the Conservatives after 2010. 🤷♀️
Can you name a single government in any country at any time in history that was substantially more radical in office than in opposition?
The idea that Starmer is playing a clever game to win so he can then take on the rich and powerful few on behalf of the many is pure fantasy.
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Nobody has been killed by an Owen Jones tweet but I get the impression plenty have been made seriously sick by some of them.
@netanyahu
Let’s be clear. Saudi Arabia is a terrorist state. It slaughters innocent people for political ends. It exports extremism. It is armed and backed by the British government. No one has killed by a wreath. Countless civilians have been killed by British-supplied bombs.
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Getting the impression that just a few days after Labour’s worst defeat since 1935 Corbynites have successfully persuaded themselves that it actually didn’t happen.
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I think 'moderately well cut suit' is the ultimate Tory burn.
The problem with
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
is that people confuse his undoubted fluency and a moderately well cut suit with wisdom but sadly he’s plain wrong
#astonishinglettertoConstituencyPartyChairmen
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So those who claim to believe antisemitism was weaponised to destroy Corbyn are weaponising BLM to undermine Starmer.
It’s not a pretty sight.
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Popular/unpopular pinion: there is far too much emphasis in the writing of academic history and politics about resistance and protest and far too little on conformity and acceptance.
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Tarry didn’t give Starmer much choice. How would Starmer have looked had he not sacked him? When you’re 10 points ahead these things blow over. But if we’ll soon forget about Tarry he is a catalyst for tensions that already exist in the party. And they won’t go away.
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How many times have those attack ads given Labour speakers the chance to reiterate time and again the failures of the Conservative government?
Labour leader, Keir Starmer says he 'makes no apologies' for tweets that he says 'highlights the failures of this government' adding 'they have broken the NHS, criminal justice system and the economy'
Read more here 👉
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If 2019 is the equivalent of 1983 then the results today suggest Labour under Starmer has now reached the position achieved under the early leadership of John Smith. That’s a quick journey.
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It’s a shame Cruddas appears to make the fatal error of seeing Labour’s ‘traditions and values’ as an unchanging golden mean against which the present can only be judged poorly - rather than a myth-ridden comfort blanket.
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It’s odd that some think Jeremy Corbyn’s unpopularity was the result of media distortion; but that Tony Blair’s unpopularity is the result of clear-sighted popular wisdom. I’m confused!
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I suppose writing anti-Labour pieces in an SNP publication could be grounds for being kicked out as a Labour Party, but he’s so irrelevant now it is probably not worth the trouble.
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@NJ_Timothy
If the role of the BBC is to try to reflect a national consensus (sic), something they always struggle to do then I think - given what we know of public opinion - she actually performed that function.
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This story has attracted more attention by being pulled than if it been left alone. If Johnson ever had a golden touch he’s now become the anti-Midas.
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Peter Mandelson twice resigned as a minister due to the mere *appearance* of impropriety. More innocent days, clearly.
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One of the most over-interpreted elections of modern times. Not quite an earthquake but a serious tremor*. And it provided Corbyn with an opportunity he couldn’t help himself but squander.
#OTD
2017. General Election. Shock as Theresa May loses her majority and Labour gain 30 seats.
Jeremy Corbyn declares that "we have changed the face of British politics" while John McDonnell says the party must prepare to become a minority government.
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Starmer really opened the floodgates with that ad didn’t he? From March 25th.
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When Jeremy said Labour would be a member-led party he didn't mention that the member he had in mind was Len McCluskey.
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New Labour's class spite for the homeless was such, it reduced their number by 2/3rds.
*eyebrow* Class spite toward the homeless was a regular feature of life well before Brexit. New Labour effectively criminalised begging with civil orders. Cameron empowered local authorities to fine beggars. This is really *not* caused by Brexit.
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When will journalists ask Rishi Sunak with whom he might do a deal after the next election?
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Somebody has an interesting idea of what balance is: a former leader of the Conservative party, the sister of a former leader of the Conservative party and a big businessman.
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The
@bbclaurak
doc fleshed out a lot of microscopic detail but didn’t change the basics of the known. But it contributed to the Johnson Myth, IE that he is an exceptional figure (one he then exploits) by sidelining wider analysis of who protects him (in media especially).
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@AdamBienkov
I’m still bemused as to how the Labour party stopped the government doing anything. Did it win votes in the Commons that I missed?
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The expansion of NATO membership is always at the invitation of sovereign states. Remind me how Russia expanded into Ukraine in 2014. This piece is a masterclass in how to be disingenuous.
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Best privatise The Times.
There were far, far more cheers, but that doesn’t make a good headline does it.
Queen’s thanksgiving service: Boos and jeers for Boris Johnson outside St Paul’s
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Lots of people questioning how the BBC have chosen to frame this. And they're right: it stinks.
Boris Johnson steals Keir Starmer's thunder as he's forced to act in sleaze row, writes
@BBCLauraK
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In 1992 Neil Kinnock achieved a bigger swing.
Jeremy Corbyn just won biggest swing in British politics since 1945. Portillo, Kendall and Ferrari embarrassing television, frankly
#bbctw
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A moral coward. People like him enabled Johnson & will enable a similarly corrupting figure in the future if they think it serves their interests. That the Privileges Committee changed anything substantial or structural is fanciful.
“A 90-day penalty is not merited"
Housing Secretary Michael Gove says while Boris Johnson's actions "fall short of what should be expected” he doesn't agree with the conclusion of the Privileges Committee and will abstain from the Commons vote
#BBCLauraK
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Labour is starting to look outwards.
I'm very pleased to say that
@Keir_Starmer
is joining
@LBC
for a new, monthly phone-in. He'll be taking calls with
@NickFerrariLBC
starting at 9am on Monday.
#CallKeir
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Everyone in the Labour party wants a pause or ceasefire. Practically & in short term they’re the same & the innocent Palestinians would take either. But Hamas & Netanyahu reject both. Given that why are so many on the left attacking Starmer?
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Note the serious way the panelists discuss the issue & the respectful silence in which the audience listens. Question Time today is full of sloganeers shouting at each other in a bear pit of hate.
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Standing in Greater Manchester.
Andy BURNHAM managed to attract 76% of the vote... What is he doing that the rest of the LABOUR PARTY could learn from?
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As a political historian, I can tell those currently calling for Conservative party unity, it won’t happen. Unity does not emerge out of a divided party: it is only imposed by the terrible impact of a traumatic election defeat - & if needs be a series of them.
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And with that Thornberry’s hopes of becoming leader are sunk.
Caroline Flint confirms that it was Emily Thornberry who said “I’m glad my constituents aren’t as stupid as yours”.
#Ridge
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This is such a professional operation. If only Labour had not been run by amateurs and hobbyists these last few years.
It is a huge honour to have the support of Aneira Thomas, the first baby to be born in the NHS. I will fight day in, day out to defend our NHS from Tory cuts and privatisation.
#AnotherFutureIsPossible
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This fixation on the perfect nature of one person is, to state the bleeding obvious, a sign of a political culture gone adolescent.
Jeremy Corbyn is the only political leader that I can think of that has stood up for working class people.
In his entire political career he hasn't deserted ordinary people and I won't desert him either.
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