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@NicholasOShaug1 Not Swift, I think, but the king of Brobdingnag: “I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.”

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@aledornell When Franco ruled Spain he tried to encourage a campaign for the "restoration" of Gibraltar.
Britain has ruled Gibraltar for longer than Spain, and the Moors ruled it for longer than both combined, so the obvious solution is...

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@TheGameVeda @David__Osland To be fair(!) to the earlier Rothermere, after the violent BUF rally at Olympia in 1934 he turned against Mussolini and his support for Hitler was entirely limited to within Germany

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@BorisDralyuk But which wrote better prose and which was the better psychologist?

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@RasberryRazz It's a good thing Sugarpuss didn't know about Richard III's character and relations with his wife!

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@kmflett Did no-one think to sell tickets for the Thompson-Sigal fisticuffs? It'd be much more fun (and dialectically interesting) than a couple of dozen people booting a ball about.

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@warpingwood ...or the Battle of Goose Green

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@amasterofarts @SebMilbank David Amess and Jo Cox may have been killed by people "of unsound mind", but the fact that their "unsoundness of mind" took religio-political forms is noteworthy.

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@juliet_turner6 @PaulWelters A future as nanny and nursemaid to generations of magpies.

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@nguyenhdi How many other Restoration writers are much read now?
the only ones often mentioned seem to be Rochester and Behn.

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@JohnWight1 How, precisely, are the Falkland Islanders "ungrateful"? Why does Mr Wight think they "swan around in Union Jack underpants"? They would surely swan around in Argentine-flagged underpants, for the same reason Mrs. Paisley wore underpants with the Irish tricolour on them.

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@stendhalist ...and the Falkland Islands had a much better football team.

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@stendhalist Perhaps the Falklands ought to annex Argentina. I t would ensure Argentina had a much better government.

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@DarrenMJones200 A "living fossil" with no known dead fossils.
Officially "critically endangered" but grows successfully as far north as Inverness.

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@YousufPash69914 @BBCNews It's actually been British (1713-2026) for longer than it was Spanish (1462-1713)

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@soyandyolivera "Ooh! We are cross!"

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@Stratty1882 @SCFCJosh96 Henry V thought so.
A lot of Frenchmen think France should own England,

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@5Pillarsuk "Europe’s worst atrocity since the Second World War"

Er...
It's also probable that there were worse slaughters in Chechnya in the 1990s.

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@fwrenzo1 I miss when the BBC's news was just a guy in a suit on the radio telling you "There is no news," on 18 April 1930, before returning to an opera broadcast.

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@gnominate_ @theiaincameron Sukarno dictator of Indonesia - said Indonesia would join the Comintern if they didn't get Dutch New Guinea.
The USA persuaded the Netherlands to hand it over to them.