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Martin D.B. Brown

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Historian, parent, husband, occasional Bondologist
#BondianColdWar book

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This is gold. Hard to decide which line to pull, but I'll do with this: "[the Cybertruck's owner was surprised] that the people taking his car out for a joyride worked for the press. He suspected we were going to say mean s—t about Elon, and he was right. Elon Musk is a penis."

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Poor Orwell, whatever his intentions totally lost with the endless banal references to supposed totalitarian control

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Seems another flaccid excuse to roll out Orwell, perhaps flop out is more apt, for no particular reason

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Somewhat mystified by this report of a story elsewhere. It's not Wikipedia but a copy which doesn't replace anything, surely many more, far more insidious and influential efforts in Russian to censor and delude

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Nation states attempt to control narrative shocker...

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The only potential success out of the NATO forum is someone finally figuring out 2% of GDP doesn't mean shit and saying so out loud. I'll wait.

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Alan Hollinghurst's 'Line of Beauty' has a lot more coke fuelled 3-ways in it than i was lead to suspect, which is fine, and the one in the bogs after dancing with Thatch is especially amusing

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And that's why all the sudden enthusiasm for mentioning imperialism and postcolonialism is something of a double edged sword...

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Hopeingand guessing Farage fucks up soon and badly

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Well sort of... it's also, whisper it, being White

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Nothing to do with interviewee i hasten to add ... About whom i have an academic crush after reading his article on fire in America which was terrifyingly brilliant and fascinating

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Quickly reminded why i stopped listening to this once they moved away from South Asian topics

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Daniel Immerwahr's how to gide an empire

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I find it fascinating how much of the '90s and 2001-14 is simply written out of these narratives

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Collaboration with, and acceptance of Soviet then Russian actions for 20 plus years didn't appear out of thin air

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"OfS chair, Wharton received an annual salary of £59,000, set by DfE, for two days a week."

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That's in no way to ignore, or dismiss the point made here

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We're all profoundly ignorant about many places and that's a multidimensional process

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Is C19th Russian literature more widely known in 'the West'? Yes; are concepts of panSlavic solidarity? Probably not; Kapuscinski's writings, while excellent in my view, are problematic in terms of accuracy and his perspectives. I would struggle to name a single Angolan author

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In case you don't know it, Phillippe Sands book The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage is very good on this issue

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America's farcical pier will be "permanently removed" from Gaza in a few days. It cost $230m, it lasted for less than two months (and it was functional for only half that time), and in that time it delivered the equivalent of a mere ~500 trucks of aid.

apnews.com/article/gaza...

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These Onlyfans sites are going too far now

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Is that some variation of pegging for the superrich ?

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INT. DAY STARBUCKS Steve Miller: Medium latte, please Barista: Name? Steve Miller: Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah Some call me the gangster of love Some people call me Maurice *wah whoo* Barista: It's just for the cup, imma put Morris

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George's longer article is currently available open access in our latest issue of History Workshop Journal 👇

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No, no it's fucking not, walking to Mordor would be far more fun

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How is the following inspired by anything "Inspired by an article I read (Iwamoto et al, 2017), I developed a series of quizzes and short e-tests to create a more engaging VLE environment and to provide formative feedback to support learning (V3, A4)."

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Even the so-called benefits are mind-bendingly boring

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