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Michael Troy 🇺🇦 retweeted
If you don’t know how to tell a crocodile from an alligator—the crocodile is the one next to the alligator.
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Two days before the 2016 Brexit referendum, Daniel Hannan wrote about what life would be like in Britain on 24 June 2025 if we voted to Leave.
A week ago, he wrote in the Telegraph that Britain is turning into a third world country.
He got paid for both articles.
Michael Troy 🇺🇦 retweeted
A under-discussed backdrop to yesterday's election results—Britain today feels less pleasant, well-maintained and orderly than a decade ago: from potholes to phone-snatchers.
I've spent the past few months digging in to why for @TheEconomist.
A short 🧵 on what I've concluded.
Michael Troy 🇺🇦 retweeted
How is an economic meltdown the one thing Republicans are suddenly all chill about?
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The economy's crashing like it's 2020, but this time the virus is coming from inside the White House
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The legendary origin of the phrase "chancing your arm" is a brilliant story from Dublin in 1492. The Butlers of Ormonde and the FitzGeralds of Kildare were involved in a violent land feud. The Butlers retreated to the sanctuary of St Patrick's Cathedral, with the FitzGeralds in hot pursuit.
A standoff took place, the Fitzgeralds refusing to leave till the Butlers surrendered. However, the Butlers feared they'd be massacred by their sworn enemies if they left the sanctuary. To break the stalemate and show his sincerity to let the Butlers surrender peacefully, Gerald Fitzgerald cut a hole in the chapterhouse door and put his empty sword arm through as a gesture of peace.
The Butlers saw the honour of the act of Fitzgerald "chancing his arm," and their leader shook Fitzgerald's hand. Both families left the cathedral in peace. A potent symbol of compromise producing a win/win scenario the "Door of Reconciliation" is still on display in St Pat's Cathedral to this day. – at Fingal, Ireland
Michael Troy 🇺🇦 retweeted
“And welcome to Song for Ireland. The contest where we select your representative to sing for Ireland.”
John Kenny RIP
Michael Troy 🇺🇦 retweeted
Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.
The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
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theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Michael Troy 🇺🇦 retweeted
A head brewer at Grolsch at their brewery in the Netherlands - long before Asahi acquisition - told me you can't get taste into the style below 5%. Now the British version reduced again to 3.4% will save Asahi 23p in duty per 440ml can. "Premium Pilsner" claim a joke.
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X is dead.
Elon bought it as a gift to Trump… and everything Trump touches turns to lead
edition.cnn.com/2024/10/02/b….
Michael Troy 🇺🇦 retweeted
How my friend @Simon_Perry and his colleagues built a tool for spotting medical misinformation - and discovered that 97% (!!) of alternative therapists make misleading claims on their websites.
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/a…
Here's how AI can REDUCE health misinformation (FREE TO READ!)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/a…
Michael Troy 🇺🇦 retweeted
Thanks to @Wera_Hobhouse MP, who yesterday raised the challenges that the planned expiry of the temporary easement on 1st Feb 2025 pose for small businesses in the wine industry, like the Canned Wine Company in her constituency.
#WSTA #WineEasement #Budget