Nicholas Cole
@quilldir
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British Historian of American History. Director of the Quill Project at Pembroke College (https://t.co/1Y5jRhzds7).
Oxford, England
Joined November 2016
As I have discussed with many generations of students, all democracies rely in the end on the belief that it is all right to lose an election. Beyond anything else that is the essential belief. Without it there is no republic.
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Amazing. An early 17th-cent. English woman Latinist in Rudolphine Prague. There should be more collaborative student projects like this.
New commentary on selected works by brilliant Latinist Elizabeth Jane Weston now out via Pixelia Publishing https://t.co/HopgryN9Qa (in print and OER pdf). Collaboratively made for readers everywhere by students @haverfordedu, @BrynMawrCollege & @swarthmore.
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A note to UI designers, especially at Apple: I want transparent UI elements for doing most serious work for the same reason that I don’t write letters on tracing paper.
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The select committee on the constitution of the House of Lords rejects the idea that it is not entitled to reject the Leadbeater assisted suicide bill. Lord Falconer in utter shambles.
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Unsurprisingly the head of comms of @dignityindying is peddling constitutional falsehoods. This is a PMB. It's not in any manifesto. It's not been passed twice by the House of Commons in two consecutive sessions. The House of Lords has no duty to defer.
The Lords has an important duty to scrutinise, but it also has a constitutional duty to respect the primacy of the Commons, which has twice backed this Bill. MPs listened to dying people; reflected the public mood. Families up & down the country now call on Peers to follow suit.
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Congress ex abundanti cautela eventually retroactively confirmed things in 1953 but the real issue is trying to pinpoint down if this Act or some kind of self-execution of the enabling act's conditions did the actual admission
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The great dilemma - is it really sporting to win the cricket? Especially after such an excellently close match?
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I'm finding that Apple's uncanny valley fake backdrops and robotic Teleprompter readings make the WWDC videos almost impossible to watch.
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“One consultant said she could foresee a time when ‘20 to 30 patients with anorexia access assisted dying in this country every year, because of the contagion effect’.” Hadley Freeman in today’s Sunday Times on the committee’s “unforgivable” rejection of anorexia safeguards:
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Where do the ideas come from that formed our nation? 🇺🇲 @josh_hammer & @quilldir join us on March 10th in Miami, FL for a special event examining the influences and contributions of Jewish, Greek, and Roman cultures on the American form of government. https://t.co/gtHAYWSrJb
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Broken encryption has always been a very bad idea that will put people at risk, and insisting on it will harm the UK as a place for business and cloud services. The UK government is full of experts that know this. Why does this issue keep coming up?
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Apple has criticised powers in the UK's Online Safety Bill that could be used to force encrypted messaging tools like iMessage, WhatsApp and Signal to scan messages for child abuse material. From a...
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Keir Starmer in 2015: "[Surveillance] shouldn't be general and it shouldn't apply to the public in general" The UK Gov't must cease attempts to break #Apple encryption before the privacy rights of millions are eroded.
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“A gross misunderstanding.” Devastating from @doctor_oxford, one of the witnesses who—Kim Leadbeater claims—inspired the idea of assisted suicide panels. Clarke confirms that the multidisciplinary teams she recommended are *completely different* from the Leadbeater proposal:
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York University is suspending admissions to over a dozen programs in the fall, likely planning to shut them down completely in the next few years. Faculty member shares this list that went over the YU Faculty Association council email list. Astonishing
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Last week four Labour MPs warned their colleagues they weren’t being given the full picture on the assisted suicide bill. If anything the MPs understated it. Here are 10 things we’ve learnt from the committee stage which Leadbeater and allies have studiously avoided mentioning:
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It’s been said that the next UK political scandal is probably already happening in plain sight. And it is. It’s been happening all this week at the assisted suicide bill committee. A thread:
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This is what a leading proponent of assisted suicide is saying in the open. Ask yourself: do you want to live in a society that makes such a tradeoff?
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How can a Vice-Chancellor not understand the nature of a subject taught in her own university and use her misunderstanding of the situation as grounds to close that subject down? Yesterday, the VC of @cardiffuni was on the Today programme. I have transcribed her words. /
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2024 has been a good year for me professionally. I did a lot of interesting stuff, only some of which I can talk about publicly here.🧵 But I have become very discouraged by Western societies' growing callousness toward human life, epitomized by the push for "assisted dying".
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Did you know the Mona Lisa has a twin? You don't realize how bad a state it's in until you see the two side-by-side. And it shows why restorations in art are a major problem… (thread) 🧵
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I've asked a colleague who teaches stats in the University to run constituency deprivation scores and assisted suicide votes through some independent statistical analysis. The results are quite interesting. Here, for example, are how Labour MPs split on assisted suicide:
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