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What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.

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Siri, tell me how I use Twitter.

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@kingmirjam ny

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

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@JohnRentoul @SVunny52957 @pghoskin Lord Robert was reluctant to leave the Commons. He even contemplated ignoring the Writ of Summons.

[Gareth Dennis @GarethDennis]

I think we're now able to build a pretty clear picture of the most likely mechanism of the train crash at Adamuz in Spain.

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@Layo_FH @edwest 2 is a reworking of Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy, with its threefold division of Barbarians, Philistines and Populace. Barbarians and Populace still have a common interest against the Philistines.

[Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused]

Just copying in my theory of why Mr. Brightside is more popular in the UK than America from a group chat

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“President Carter told a funny story. Everyone must laugh.”

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@Bloopie98598925 @guineagibbs @SCP_Hughes Mid-80s: the precinct was completed in 1988. It mostly replaced Jones & Higgins' department store. (The bus garage was replaced by the open-air station in 1995. The car park was largely a result of enemy action during the War; the surviving buildings were gradually levelled.)

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@100YearsAgoLive He was the son, son-in-law and father of past and future Governors/Governors-General of New Zealand, and also a grandfather of a High Commissioner of New Zealand.

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@SarkerNotParker @LogicalVaxxer @CoKeynesian @MasterVril In British terms, the traditional Palace view is that the existence of a Deputy PM should not be seen as limiting the Monarch's prerogative to summon anyone suitable to form a gov't in circs such as these.

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@CoKeynesian @MasterVril Disagree strongly. Willie would have ended up in charge in the interim, but the "continuity candidate" would have been whoever looked best out of Howe or Lawson. Heseltine might have struck, but would have been unlikely to win.

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

i love watching a coup fall apart and monday morning quarter backing it like "ah yeah you gotta get your party on your side" like i know how to do that shit

[Tom Gann @Tom_Gann]

A lot to say about the figuring of class & gender in this from a man who was, pre-fame, let’s remember, a petty bourgeois grocer, and the venom in "a handful of middle class women of a certain age".

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One of my ghost notions is that all sense experience in literature that does not depend on the subject's prior categories results in a disordered subject, constantly trying to file the sensation so as to restore that sense of order.

[Dr Ally Louks @DrAllyLouks]

Since there is some confusion about the nature of my research, here is the abstract for my PhD thesis, which I hope will provide more context for anyone interested in learning more about my work!

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@SirClmnt @korejay @funkomi Yes: large parts of both Hither Green and Ilford were developed by the Victorian builder Cameron Corbett, and this is often used as a selling point today.

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@robpalkwriter Disraeli did spend a great deal of time in his final premiership writing long love letters to Lady Bradford.

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@metaboatchris @bouledenerfs_ In 2007, an ARD documentary exposed a lot of the Quandt family's activities in the Nazi era. In response, the family commissioned an independent historian to study the issue. The study backed up the doc, and the family & BMW accepted the response.

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@DenisMacShane @MichaelLCrick Tony Benn replaced Cousins in Cabinet, building the stature he needed to become the leader of the anti-consensus left. Oh - and a certain Mrs. Thatcher made the best Commons speech of her career to date attacking the P&I Act.

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@DenisMacShane @MichaelLCrick Part of the government's reaction was the P&I Act 1966, with its wage/price freeze, which caused Frank Cousins to resign; & we embarked on the road which led to In Place of Strife, Heath's IR Act, the Social Contract and the WoD.