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> timely commutes Billions of people seem to have worked out how to do this on bicycles and public transport.

In that were the real concern, the DDR would have restricted travel from the West to the East by residents of the West, but not travel by its own residents to the West and return j…

What’s an ‘official magazine’?

Bin Laden certainly has been to Oxford, but I’ve not heard of any connexion with the university.¹ I wouldn’t say that those attending language schools and similar tend to interact …

One can note certain rhetorical similarities without holding that in every aspect China and India are doing the same thing.

It’s not that Malaysia isn’t a threat (there has been sabre-rattling too, e.g. in 1991 when the army was mobilised in response to a Malaysian exercise)—just that it’s not only or m…

The report mentioned in Haaretz ( https://www.haaretz.com/1.5053685 ) was plausible but by no means incontrovertible. Malaysia is not necessarily more threatening than Indonesia so…

> These sorts of people are notorious for being unable to recognize that Nazi-ism was an ideology of the hard left, an ideology that the academic classes are extremely susceptible …

This seems to be a pretty thin rebuttal. There’s a perfectly sound case against calling Trump a Nazi—which is not what the article does. It’s not really very obvious what your obje…

> Voting isn't even that important. The wrong guy gets picked, what happens? Same bullshit as if the right guy got picked. If voting is unimportant, why do you care about racist re…

Scotland’s Procurators Fiscal are fairly important and frequently referred to.

> When intellectuals talk about the death penalty, they talk about things like whether it's permissible for the state to take someone's life, whether the death penalty acts as a de…

The whole thing may well be dystopian. That said, you don’t seem to have looked up what test to release actually is. It’s a scheme for travellers to get out of quarantine early. So…

Narratives can be correct or incorrect (and this one is mostly correct insofar as it makes specific claims about the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.) Calling a set of claims a na…

There is no UK prohibition on exports. The UK is not blocking exports. The EU were free to conclude contracts with the (not very productive) UK manufacturers at the same time HM go…

I broadly agree but I usually trust one of the big ones (e.g. ‘recovery’ in the UK) since they have pretty big sample sizes and seem to be on top of stats.

I have a perfectly good one (Russell Hobbs, 3000W, no noises and so on, no lights, 1.7L, &c.)— https://www.amazon.co.uk/Russell-Hobbs-Colour-Plus-Kettle/dp... . I suppose it’s beca…

Well I suppose one could say we call the analogue of reparations the welfare state at which point that prospect doesn’t sound quite so ludicrous after all.

Well all sorts of things were taken offline due to the cold—anything can be made to work properly in cold weather.

Why not backup nuclear in place of backup gas? That combined with enough long-distance transmission obviates the need for gas.

One has the right to any other job. Compare soldiers: generally one probably ought to have the right to unionise, to sick leave, to certain health and safety standards and so on—th…

I find a compose key (see Wikipedia) quite helpful for diacritics, em dashes, &c.—once you get the hang of it, it’s really quite fast and intuitive. One can even add new combinatio…

Given the HKHRDA passed the Senate unanimously and in the House by 417-1,⁰ bipartisan consensus even ignoring your entirely unsourced claim that Biden is a Chinese puppet means tha…

This is ludicrous. Guidance is not law, and unclear laws are not to be interpreted at the discretion of the police. The notion that merely going outside on a walk far from others c…

A High Court judgment would also bind lower courts, including the Magistrates’ Court.