Michael Cole
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Retired nuclear physicist (Max Planck/Princeton). Aspiring eccentric. dum tempus habemus operemur bonum
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Bliss it is in this dawn to be alive, and to be young is very heaven
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@Fremond_
@RepealRPA1918
That's a pretty direct admission that you are advocating US interests here rather than UK interests, despite patriotic verbiage. It's not at all clear to me that the UK would be threatened by the US returning within its own borders.
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@realchrisrufo
The Harvard Corporation is more to blame than Gay is. They appointed her. If she is guilty, they must also go.
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@toadmeister
It's clear from the content of these stickers that the group he was stirring up hatred against was the government, not the non-white people who have been beneficiaries of its policies. While this has always been the true intent of such laws, this case is especially clear.
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@PushBidenLeft
Or that her son deployed as a... reservist lawyer... voluntarily in order to buttress his planned political career?
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@kelvmackenzie
"We are going to have to build more prisons to house all the Fujitsu and Post Office senior staff who will be going to jail before this scandal ends."
Why is Fujitsu responsible for a client continuing to use software they informed the client was defective?
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@PaulSkallas
USA becoming a "fourth world" country.
Second world countries cant afford crime so elimimate it.
Third world countries cant afford crime and get wrecked
Only USA accepts it & pays.
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@FraserNelson
Funny that defending a vegetarian cram school organised around multiculturalism at the expense of individual expression is now a *right wing* position. Truly the right is just yesterday's left.
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@thisischaniece
They're still trying to impose a requirement that has no legal basis and is simply something they prefer to happen.
Fwiw I dont think data privacy(!) is inherently communist/authoritarian - doesnt change the fact such laws dont exist in UK.
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@buttonslives
The tolerance of fraud at Ivies is a bigger story than any politics angle. Everyone always knew academics are left wing - they did NOT know that Ivies do NOT have high academic standards!
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@SpencerGuard
International law stopped drawing such a hard distinction between state military forces and "militants" a long time ago.
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@robkhenderson
Their instinct is not to want to become a useless "ZIRP person" who may prosper in good times but will not be fed when times when get tough. However, technology may mean times never get tough again.
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@chrismbryant
Germans are risk averse, rather than poor.
Putting their money in zero-yield bank accounts rather than mortgages or the stock market makes them more robust to economic shocks, at the cost of a lower net worth.
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@NileGardiner
Israel is not an ally of the UK.
UK politicians make similar accusations of breaking intl law against the UK (see e.g. prosecuting N Ireland soldiers).
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@Telegraph
Clashes in Estonia would lead to dozens of Chinooks crashing into the Palace of Westminster?
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@Jenniferhochsc2
Leaving aside the fact it's a Harvard degree even if its standards are low, in a sane world one would ask if the *examinations* are equally rigorous, not the *admissions*.
Subtext: Ivy degrees qua degree are worthless. All the status comes from the admit, not the education.
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@PauloCampbell
With the greatest respect to the victim here, a man willing to drive a car uninsured so dangerously that he flips it over with his own father inside won't be deterred by road safety measures.
Perhaps this 29yo w/"twenty previous convictions" should have been in jail!
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@meadwaj
Not sure how much you travel but Britain is now rich capital core where British people provide services and foreigners buy them, and a large hinterland in which it's still 1995. So, basically any middle income country but without the reduced cost of living.
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@yuanyi_z
After reading a lot of old documents, my impression has been that the British Empire truly is a 20th century interest or even an American obsession projected backwards onto Britain's historical view of itself.
British people, even in the 19th century, just did not think about
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@QuintusCurtius
Protestant-derived social reformers and their protest marches are still here.
Of course production values and general dignity have fallen like a rock
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@GMCharlatan
I actually do not need doctors, whereas they do very much need "me" in order to remain employed as doctors, which is why they are writing public appeals to me rather than the other way around.
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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
The Euro has been an economic disaster for its members. Remain has been imprudently allowed to bury that discussion.
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@StevenEdginton
More significant than the content is that a foreign (US) ideology was imposed wholesale and overnight with no alternations in terminology or outlook for local conditions and with no local mandate, electoral or otherwise. A national security risk.
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@TonyDowson5
After 13 years or whatever Conservative Party has achieved zero institutional penetration of the government. It's not a political organisation.
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@itaisher
Plagiarism is not the big problem with academia, but I'd bet an individual having done gratuitous plagiarism excused by his bosses correlates strongly with causing all the other problems.
Get rid of those who lack integrity and see if academia doesn't qualitatively change.
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@TiceRichard
Does Simon Danczuk even agree with your platform? He seems to be a centre leftist running for a far right party - because due to scandals he can't get other gigs? Is that integrity?
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@mattyglesias
Whatever was normal whenever I happened to be born must be closest to the correct answer forever
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@toadmeister
@Eulipotyphla_OG
@JMCDelingpole
@SpeechUnion
You state that the article "dismantles arguments for his actions as free speech". This is a clear statement that your organisation will not defend someone in this situation. How else can this statement be interpreted?
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@ukhomeoffice
You are not banning them. The Home Office does not have the power either to introduce or pass bills into laws.
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@chlveh
Easy to lack sympathy but your childrens' education doesn't look like a luxury even if it. If you have a champagne habit and lose your job, you drink less champagne. If you have private school habit and lose your job, your kids may never see their friends again. Precarious.
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@AlixPanama
I once met a Canadian citizen who actually tried to claim asylum in Sweden. I believe his claim was false but that he sincerely believed it was true. He reported it was rejected without consideration due to his citizenship and he was banned from the entire Schengen area.
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@realchrisrufo
Let me know when everyone who wrote Gay a recommendation letter has resigned. Her Harvard career as faculty began in 2000.
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@ColinYeo1
Of course there isn't a giant state-funded network of organisations with exactly the opposite point of view
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@Peter_Nimitz
Countries "collapsing" is ahistorical and undefined. One of the vaguest/least meaningful concepts in common use. But countries dropping many rungs in military power in a few decades happens often in history.
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@BBCWomansHour
@JoPhoenix1
@Emmabarnett
The hilarious thing about this ruling is that it seems to agree that "uncles" should not be allowed to be employed, but considers it defamatory against this particular woman to be compared to them. Not *exactly* a victory for freedom of conscience!
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@ProfKarolSikora
I recall the government literally handing over the announcement of policy to self-described "scientists" - who of course are not to blame for ignoring the externalities that were pointed out repeatedly at the time by people they then tried to suppress.
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@nicholadrummond
It's an historical aberration for Britain to have an army the same size as a European land power - or even larger. It makes sense that Germany would be the centre of mass of defence of Eastern Europe, not an island a thousand kilometers away.
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@julianHjessop
The Eurozone is one of the worst major economies on earth (Japan is perhaps worse but Japan didn't pretend mass immigration was an economic prophylactic like EU did) but UK's under-performance w.r.t to the USA is a major problem. Faster growth but from much lower level!
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@martinmbauer
Plenty of people want to advance in a "research career" who do not care about science.
Also, management sometimes wants to promote these people for reasons they would rather not speak aloud.
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@LBC
@mrjamesob
People overrate this immensely. Very expensive cancer treatments also generally have marginal success rates. There's only a very limited extent to which you can buy your way out of being old
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@SwordMercury
Perhaps they are aware the US also has a lot of strategic bombers and an air base at Diego Garcia?
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@MrRBourne
It's richer and there is no work-life balance and there is culture if you live in one or two places maybe.
The healthcare thing is really not an issue unless you're <50 percentile and even then it's way overblown.
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@Will_Butts
@kelvmackenzie
Not denying that Fujitsu is responsible if they later told falsehoods in court.
However, PO must be considered primarily responsible for initiating prosecutions if Fujitsu told them about the defects.
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@The_Gusman
@kelvmackenzie
It isn't illegal to sell defective software if you describe it accurately as defective.
If Fujitsu testified in court that the software is not defective, sure they committed perjury.
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@moveincircles
Or that arguably don't make sense, but happen to appear on US Government forms!
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@PeteNorth303
Woke is an American ideology and the SNP is an America-facing party. It seeks a larger, more powerful master, not national independence. Why would a national independence party wish to be part of the EU?
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@SwordMercury
People believe Iran has a very powerful military. It doesn't! It has a small air force, junk submarines, and "wunderwaffen" amateur commentators believe are hugely powerful but no leading naval power wants.
The USA does not attack Iran because the US public does not want it.
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@Casmilus
@rgpoulussen
Most were soldiers of the Royal Naval Division who fought in the north of Belgium in 1914 and chose to enter Holland rather than be captured by the Germans after their escape routes were cut.
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@HankHeil
Unpopular opinion: Suez doesn't really matter. 19th century modernity, not 21st century modernity. Those one megaton giant container ships are commodities; they cost order ~$100m which is peanuts. Just build more of them. Of course Suez Canal is more fun, than cheap steel.
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@IsabellaMWeber
Ger issue is not "austerity" but policy decisions to shut down economy on material level. Can be reversed overnight but only by material changes, not paper monetary manipulations.
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@JayinKyiv
The article also doesn't claim he was prosecuted. The government made an administrative decision to impose various restrictions on his actions, which arguably amount to a criminal penalty. Close to an act of attainder, but without the specific sanction of parliament.
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@PaulSkallas
I quit a six figure job and left the US voluntarily. My father turned down a H1B job at Raytheon. His father turned down a green card. On the other side of the family, a great grandfather returned to Ireland after inheriting land.
We're the unmigrants you don't see.
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@MetroUK
If someone "mutinies" because they are drunk and a bit fighty, does the flight get cancelled or does security get called to throw that person off? I've seen numerous videos of passengers being booted from flights but never heard of cancellation except in context of deportations.
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@desjacobins
@tomhfh
Sure; however, it happened because the vast majority of countries de-recognised ROC and recognised PRC instead, including Ireland, the UK, and the US.
This is not an endorsement of this decision, which I would have opposed at the time. It's nonetheless the case.
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@RevdPye
@GilesMacDonogh
@pirateirwin
@MargyMayell
@oldtoonloon
@EdnaKB2
@BeaverWestminst
@militaryhistori
@theskibeagle
@michaelkeegan14
@LucyLondon7
I'm not aware that Hart was "almost arrested as a traitor" in WWII (or administratively interned which was more common). Perhaps you are thinking of JFC Fuller?
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@feelsdesperate
The implications here are 1. institutional experts have a high aptitude and good knowledge 2. 'insiders' have better access to this good knowledge than outsiders.
The real problem is institutional decay causing inside info to also be garbage.
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@christiancalgie
If enough people believe the US Constitution is binding on the UK it will eventually become true!
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@hardtimeshere11
The NHS is actually quite cheap which is its main virtue, as healthcare doesn't add nearly as much life expectancy as most believe.
Nonetheless true that even <$10k GDPPC countries one can now buy better out of pocket healthcare even on local salaries.
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@Valen10Francois
Have you considered that the French are insufferable because of their cultural memory of being (proportionately) 250m in Europe?
Not a jab, a serious question.
The best from Angleterre, which used to be proportionately more like the Netherlands in terms of relative population.
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@thehistoryguy
Overreaction driven by unwillingness to identify real weaknesses inside the West. Russia inherited heavy armaments from USSR but ultimately it's only 150m people vs EU's 450m. Do we need "unity across the West" or does the EU just need to be at least 1/3 as good as them?
Should
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@LaoCaiLarry1
Unfortunately travelling abroad rather destroys the self-image of the Englishman.
Suddenly the English are not great liberal strivers but rather timid people who like to be told what to do and like to tell others to do as they're told.
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@FreightAlley
Suez was shut down by Isr-Egypt tensions for eight years 1967-1975 and neither US nor Euros tried to force it open.
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@sirbu_ion1
@MacroAlf
I'm very sorry to hear that.
However, I am also very intrigued to hear how buying bonds resulted in that outcome.
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@acgrayling
The difference between AC Grayling's intellect as presented by the media monoculture and the revealed truth on twitter is the largest of any public figure.
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@FRHoffmann1
??? They didnt extend nuclear umbrella over Donetsk Oblast which they now claim is part of core Russian territory
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@martinmbauer
Being admitted to any university (especially paying international fees) is not an indicator of high talent. If we want to sell visas, govt should auction them openly.
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@BretDevereaux
Lord Denning became a lawyer when his 1st in mathematics at Oxford only got him a job as a mathematics schoolteacher.
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