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Robert Swetlic retweeted
Not sure he really does DESTROY 40 years of neoliberal failure with this speech. But it does mark a pretty stark shift in British governmental rhetoric — objectively and inarguably the sharpest leftward shift of my lifetime (born 1984).
A low bar? Sure. But dramatic nonetheless
Mr. Neal, I would suggest that you read the Good Friday Agreement, of which the United States is not a guarantor.
Mr. Prime Minister, I would suggest that you read the Good Friday Agreement.
This is a question for the people, and for the people only. Both sides agreed to the terms of the peace accord, including the principle that the right to self-determination should not be left to one person. That agreement has been honored and has helped maintain peace on the island of Ireland for 28 years.
As a guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement, the United States has a critical role to play in ensuring that the people of Ireland have the right to control their own destiny.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The United States is not a legal guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement; the text designates only the British and Irish governments as such. Additionally, the power to call a border poll rests with the UK Secretary of State, not the people as a whole. ukconstitutionallaw.org/2020/09/16/lis… ireland.ie/en/dfa/role-po…
Amazon will dump tens of millions of dollars into season one and it will get critical acclaim. The wait between season 1 and 2 will be three years, squandering fan excitement and momentum. Season 2 will make departures from the books that viewers will hate.
Amazon has acquired the rights to Holly Black’s ‘THE FOLK OF THE AIR’ series for an adaptation.
🔗 people.com/holly-black-annou…
Poor ratings will cause the CGI/costume/writing budgets for season 3 to be cut, resulting in an even more poorly received season 3. Audiences will hate additional book divergence. Amazon will move on to its next exciting idea and allow the show to languish.
Yes, but… I think the key takeaway here is not that The Mail hates the north, but that they delight in attacking the civil service and those who work in it
These are not courses, they are PhD/master’s thesis topics. And the point of them is to be niche and hyper-specific. The “once proud” Cambridge is doing exactly what all PhD granting universities do and have done for 100 years
🚨NEWS: Cambridge University has been mocked online for some of the ridiculous PhD courses currently being studied
They include:
- Traditional Cultural Norms, Technology and Gender Relations in Ghana
- The Political Economy of Female Circumcision
- Unsexed beings: constructing gender, humanness, and agency through the use of the word “unsex” in Late Modern British society and writing
- In Her Own Words: A Study of Women’s Voices in Contemporary White Supremacy and Far-Right Online Hate
- Legal Mobilization by Black Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer (LBQ) Womxn in Kenya and South Africa
- Exploring gendered embodiment in transgender and gender-diverse adolescents at the intersection of exercise and eating behaviours, social inclusion, and mental health: Towards a desire-centred approach in paediatric gender-affirming healthcare and research
- Codes of Life, Codes of Death: Tracing the (Im)possibility of Trans Lives in Algorithmic Assemblages
- Queer Cultural Memory in Literature, Film and Television since 1999
- The Sexually Sociological: Gay Masculinity, Intimacy and the (Un)queer State
A once proud University has completely lost its way
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The listed titles are PhD dissertation topics of current students at Cambridge's Centre for Gender Studies, not university courses. gender.cam.ac.uk/current-phd-st…
Funniest thing Spain could do right now is recognize Colombian sovereignty over the Bajo Nuevo Bank and Serranilla Bank
Suspicious sequencing to say the least:
- US Congress declares the Spanish exclaves Ceuta and Melilla to be Moroccan
- Morocco names it's new highway after Trump
- a horde of Moroccan immigrants floods into Spain
- immediately the global MAGA media machine spins up, gleefully supported by it's Israeli allies, to tear into Spain
Obsessed with this concept of No. 10 North where Burnham will spend his day taking Zoom meetings with officials who are still in London or taking meetings with officials who have a 5:00 p.m. train back to London
Robert Swetlic retweeted
🚨NEW: Following his official resignation as Prime Minister, Keir Starmer went straight to the pub with Rachel Reeves
Just saw the @BethRigby bob in person from the end of Downing Street and yes it is just as immaculate in person
