Aage Pearson

Cowardice destroys everything.

[Aage Pearson @lookingonagog]

@KamranZone @kkirchev @GadSaad It certainly would exist and in almost identical form without African philosophy (excepting perhaps Romano-North African Christian theology) and also without Persian medicine.

Yes to Indian numbers (as plundered by Arabs), although the Graeco-Romans managed fine without them.

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@DrDStarkeyCBE The Blair "revolution" started in 1945 with Attlee and the first majority Labour government, culminating in the Immigration Act 1948.

Blair only continued what Attlee started.

And take care, btw, as the Restoration wasn't the solution.
It was just more of the original problem.

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@MartelMaccabeus @theepicmap Strong argument that Turkey's capital city should, Βυζάντιον (Byzantium).

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@LawyerAdamHouda Easily disprovable nonsense. Why do you bother?

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@elonmusk "Anglo-American"? Suggesting a British/US joint effort is silly.
Britain stood alone for 55-60 years. It stuck its neck out politically and morally when no one else would. It provided naval and diplomatic muscle to face down resistance. 100,000 British sailors lost their lives.

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@edmurth @Markiparki @EmmaElt98 @politicsusa46 "...protected under the ECHR"
The alternative view is that Article 10 has curtailed freedom of speech and given it a conditional character that didn't exist in pre-1951 common law.
This view says that before 1951 the UK tradition was far closer to the First Amendment in the US.

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@oflynnsocial Of the 5,000 "enforced returns", around 37% will be Albanians via the 2022 Returns Agreement.
Another roughly 32% will be EU nationals (Poles, Romanians, Lithuanians).

This leaves 8% of the 19,000, about 1,500 people.
https://t.co/uzeYaCaHzw

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@Elizabeth_eno2 Hero in our household too.

Brave beyond measure.

Inspired ordinary people to stand up for themselves in England, then in America and France.

(Not remotely convinced by Jew haters and Irish people looking for someone to blame).

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@AllisonPearson @EssexPoliceUK Police may have been overzealous applying the law but the fault is with successive lawmakers who've been overzealous making exceptions to free speech.

Do we really need protection from unpleasant words?
Do we have so little agency we can't ignore an incitement to law-breaking?

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Right now, the dream is collapsing.

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@albertedwards99 Precautionary regulation is gently suffocating political and mercantile energy in general.

But Europe's recent attitude to business looks less like risk aversion and more like a full-on hostility to innovation.

....where mitigating risk is just the excuse.

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@nonregemesse Edington 878.

Alfred loses, English is silenced.

We all speak something else.

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@oliverbrown_tel This image is much more powerful than her opponent's right hand.
Watershed moment.

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@lefineder The statute referenced is Henry IV's Labourers Act 1405 (7 Hen IV c.17):

"Provided always, That every Man or Woman, of what Estate or Condition that he be, shall be free to set their Son or Daughter to take learning at any manner School that pleaseth them within the Realm."

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@DerrickBerthel1 Not a conspiracy, just poor timing

21.09.22 BOE votes to begin selling gilts as part of a QT programme begun in Feb
https://t.co/Mx9rdPDQh6
23.09.22 Mini budget. Treasury seeks to raise 72bn via gilt sales

Markets foresee gilt price collapse
Sell off

BOE forced into reverse

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@YouGov When YouGov last polled the Tories at 19% in October 2022, Labour were polled at 56% and Reform at 5%.

Tories are where they were 18 months ago - at 19%.

Labour are now at 44%.

If we're looking for where the Reform vote is coming from, might we be looking in the wrong place?

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@bennyjohnson Smiles on so many faces!!😊
Does any of the rest of it matter, if you can spread happiness?

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@ASI "Amazing"
"The biggest tax cut for businesses in 50 years"

The hype is 🙂

More measured tax advice might be:
a) Tax to £1m is reclaimable in yr 1 already as AIA.
Few SMEs will spend >£1m in a year.
b) 100% tax >£1m is also already reclaimable.
FE just allows it in yr 1.