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PM Mark Carney's speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg today (beginning at 26'00) is a real rhetorical tour de force, hardly noticed in the US media. It merits being heard and thought about. And it starts with a remembrance of Goethe. www.youtube.com/live/cMHmZHD...

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I stand with Lord Simon Woolley. And so should all of us buff.ly/vmJzQFD Why should Black leaders face questions about their fitness for office simply for having the courage to call out racism and double standards in the mainstream media, asks Sir Patrick Vernon @marisharay.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk

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I’m proud that Simon Woolley is the principal of my old college. He’s done some fantastic things there. Gilligan’s article is trying to make something from nothing with a collection of sleights, old grudges, and nitpicks. What he and The Spectator are up to is obvious.

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🧪 Very cool. Sheeppox is a gnarly virus for sheep, and thanks to a new study of the virus's DNA, we know more about when and how it emerged. How do we know this? Researchers isolated sheeppox from *medieval sheepskin parchment.* A fun one from @andrewcurry.com. www.science.org/content/arti...

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