Bernard Argente

Parliamentary researcher and avid classicist.

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From @BernardArgente The call for Independence finds the SNP over ambitious, Labour repetitious, and Reform ambiguous https://t.co/yzQeUGZdK4

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@paul_jkrause Xenophon also embodies a grounded, practical philosophy, contrasted with the metaphysical works of his friend Plato. Regardless of their distinction, both philosophies are essential for a better understanding of the truth, and our knowledge of Socrates is courtesy of them both.

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@ArmandDAngour Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam

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@afneil @thetimes I think it's also important to note two things. Firstly, the Conservatives have been rising in the polls. Secondly, there is the implausibility of a Reform government, inasmuch as voters for the Lib Dems, Labour, Green, and Conservatives are engaging in tactical voting.

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@bphillipsonMP It's clear you don't believe people can have redemption and change their ways. Yes, the horrible actions against Luciana Berger won't change, but he has served his time. If @KemiBadenoch can't give Bonehill a second chance, why can @andyburnham redeem the convict Louise Haigh?

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@Telegraph Kemi Badenoch has shown she is a great leader by giving a second chance to someone who regrets his actions. She also didn't throw him under the bus. Still, I do not think now is the time due to current events involving extremism, though I respect her decision.

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@newphilologyX Did you mean 2360/8? Ergo, poor Samuel Johnson is worth roughly 0.00338 French scholars.

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@ArmandDAngour @DrMichaelBonner Such a combination would make one an abolitionist or a cellist.

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@ArmandDAngour Beautiful translation. I find that people tend to rush books just to merely complete them. I believe that a book is also a journey that mustn't be rushed but experienced. We don't read to finish the book, but to experience and enjoy it.

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@questingvole It's a game of Chinese whispers. I'm sure the ancient bards at the time would add their own interpretation viva voce. So for Nolan, Wilson, and Pope, and anyone else, they can be permitted to retell the story with their own spin.

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@BBCr4today @bbcnickrobinson Disingenuous. I hope he understands that the ECHR in the past was signed for a good reason: to prevent the Holocaust from happening again. It now follows a living instrument doctrine that allows unelected committees in Strasbourg to encroach on parliamentary sovereignty.

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@ArmandDAngour Sing to me of the prime minister, Muse, the man of twists and turns, driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of the Labour Party.

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@MatthewStadlen @lukerobertblack Jones went from being in the cabinet and having a wide array of support as the next Labour leader to now being rendered an anonymous backbencher by Luke because of Jones' poor judgment. Quite poetically humorous to me, Matthew.

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@EJ_McGuinness I mean, this is a straw man created and defeated by Labour. The reshuffle is also the same old Labour in different seats.

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@ArmandDAngour @emavrogeo @paul_jkrause Let's not forget Alcibiades.

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@jhalcrojohnston @CatrionaStewart The SNP had to vote down that amendment because the funding, of course, was to go to 'luxury items delivered' to the home of Peter Murrell. Let them eat haggis!

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@ArmandDAngour @thinkingwest I agree that the original Odysseus is more of an unreliable narrator, while Nolan's adaptation uses flashbacks to affirm reality. Also, as @questingvole pointed out, no Dracula adaptation really shows a character writing, though the book is epistolary.

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@sentantiq Not against Emily Wilson's translations, but adding the word "polytropos" into the English lexicon would undoubtedly be useful. Although, if I had my way in a translation, it would all end up back in ancient Greek.